NATO members held a two-day summit ending on Monday in Chicago. The following is a concluding communique and what it really means.

Following the announcement of enhanced NATO missile defense capabilities in Europe, Russia on Wednesday test-fired a ballistic missile, CNN reports.

Mitt Romney now leads President Obama in the race for Florida's 29 electoral votes, a significant reversal from earlier this spring, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll released early Wednesday.

Four Secret Service agents implicated in the agency's scandal in Colombia last month and subsequently dismissed from their positions are now fighting their dismissals on the basis that, they say, they broke no rules, the Washington Post reports.

There will never be a perfect time to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, President Obama said on Monday at the close of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit. But after ten years at war, the timetable the U.S. and it’s allies have established is “a responsible one.”

President Obama on Monday defended his campaign’s attacks on presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney’s record at Bain Capital—a line of attack that has been questioned by several Democrats in recent days, including Newark Mayor Cory Booker.

A suicide bomber dressed in military garb blew himself up in Yemen's capital on Monday, killing 96 soldiers who had gathered for a military parade dress rehearsal, the Associated Press reported.

Lobbyists still have huge access to the Obama administration, even after a pledge by the president to keep influence out of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., the Washington Post reports.

Thousands of people, led by veterans, gathered in Chicago's Grant Park on Sunday for the largest demonstration at the NATO summit, The Chicago Tribune reported.

Though Italy’s unemployment rate is at an almost 12-year high and its economy continues to contract, Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti struck a hopeful tone on Sunday, asserting that the austerity measures undertaken by the country had put Italy in a more competitive position within the EU.