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President Obama is making a personal bid to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. He meets Tuesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in New York, where world leaders are gathered for the U.N. General Assembly. Getting talks started has been a serious challenge for the administration.

President Obama makes his first appearance at the U.N. General Assembly in New York, carrying an ambitious agenda and a cooperative tone. But experts say he may find it hard to get results.

A treaty that would shift countries away from fossil fuels and toward cleaner energy is supposed to be introduced at the U.N. climate meeting in Copenhagen this December. But experts say time to make a deal is running out.

A confidential report by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, warns that a new strategy and more troops are necessary to avoid failure there. Here's a look at the report, the early reaction to its findings, and what it means for the U.S. effort in Afghanistan.

More troops and resources are needed in Afghanistan to avoid failure, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, writes in a confidential report being reviewed by the Obama administration.

Reversing a major Bush administration initiative, President Obama abandoned plans Thursday to deploy a controversial U.S. missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic. A look at the system, the decision and what it could mean for U.S. relations and national security.

What are the top stories leading into the new school year? We speak to Education Reporter Ana Tintocalis, and San Diego Unified School Board President Shelia Jackson, about what's on tap for the new school year, and how the district will move forward without a superintendent in place.

Japanese voters ousted the party that's ruled the country for most of the past half-century. The party that's taking power is signaling that it wants changes in its military and economic relations with the U.S.

American troops are setting up combat outposts in Afghanistan to counter the insurgency. But in order to rebuild the country, experts in fields such as farming, irrigation and the rule of law are needed. But such U.S. civilian experts are hard to recruit and aren't arriving in Afghanistan quickly enough, analysts say.

President Obama has said he wants to see if diplomacy can keep Iran's nuclear program in check. But even those who promote the idea are wondering how effective the U.S. can be.