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The Navy SEALs strike that rescued two Western aid workers on Tuesday, coming as the Pentagon begins detailing how it will adapt to massive budget cuts, reflects a shifting emphasis toward elite, nimble units that can carry out targeted operations.

Snooki is in some interesting company.

Republican Gov. Jan Brewer and Obama had a tense conversation as the president arrived in her home state of Arizona

When signing up to fight terror in New York City, trainees were exposed to a film contained lines like 'much of Muslim leadership here in America' is to 'infiltrate and dominate,' reported the New York Times.

After Jessica Buchanan's rescue from Somali pirates by the elite Navy force, everyone wants to know: who is SEAL Team 6? Find out what missions SEAL Team 6 has been involved in, how it operates, and what one former sniper thinks of President Obama's work with SEAL Team 6 on the Osama bin Laden raid.

President Barack Obama's proposal to allow millions of homeowners to reduce mortgage payments is the latest in a series of federal efforts to aid the housing market, but it faces a number of obstacles.

Nixon hints that she'd be willing to call herself bisexual if the label did not have such a negative charge

Twitter has greatly affected the way news stories evolve.

While many would love to become Maria Sharapova's boyfriend, the gorgeous tennis star is unfortunately off the market.

Why is Warren Buffet's secretary an honored guest at the 2012 State Union?

Italian officials said Tuesday that divers found a 16th body on the Costa Concordia. The crews were making preparation on Tuesday, for extracting the oil so as to prevent an environmental disaster, when divers found the body of the elderly woman.

A slight majority of Americans -- 52 percent -- say they favor raising tax rates on capital gains to match the rate for wage income, according to new poll by The New York Times and CBS.

On Monday, Washington Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen announced she would vote in favor of gay marriage, poising the state to become the seventh in the nation to allow same-sex couples to marry.

There are still hundreds of pages of campaign finance regulations and many of them are unconstitutional, says James Bopp, the legal mind behind the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United case. But it'll take time to knock them down.

A Boston based hacker who gets hired by companies to find holes in their cyber-security now says videoconferencing equipment is, in general, wide-open to attack.

Focus on the User--a group of developers from Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and other social networking sites--has created a bookmarklet that can be added to any web browser and adds Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Quora, Tumblr, Foursquare, LinkedIn, Myspace, among other social networks to Google search results. The service was built as a proof of concept that social content could be added to Google's search results.

Rodger Federer has swept into his 1,000th tour match in style with a straight set victory against Bernard Tomic at the Australian Open. Here's a look at some of Federer's best moments in pictures.

Throughout the nominating contest, self-avowed Tea Party backers have oscillated between different candidates as they searched for an alternative to Mitt Romney, helping to drive the rapid ascents of Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain and Rick Perry. The results in South Carolina indicate that those voters coalesced behind Gingrich.

Who is Saul Alinksy? Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich knows. And, Gingrich thinks, Democratic President Barack Obama does, too. Gingrich, who won the South Carolina Republican primary on Saturday, has repeatedly invoked Alinsky's name recently.

The massive online protest last Wednesday, in which Wikipedia and thousands of other Web sites closed down or otherwise protested and helped to kill controversial online piracy legislation, was widely heralded as an unprecedented case of a grassroots uprising overcoming backroom lobbying.

Many athletes and coaches have issued statements about Joe Paterno's death on Sunday, but it is accused child molester Jerry Sandusky's statement that is making the most noise.

The court ruled that a Texas federal court must use maps drawn by the state's Republican-controlled legislature as a starting point when crafting a new plan.

The fact that Gov. Andrew Cuomo still manages to ride the honeymoon wave with voters, boasting a 73 percent favorability rating, hasn't stopped lobbyists from pushing the governor's agenda.

Marianne Gingrich has rarely appeared in the public realm to talk about her husband, GOP hopeful Newt Gingrich, since their divorce. In the 1990s, she once said she could destroy his career with a single interview. In December 2010, she said he wasn’t fit for president. Just as he is picking up steam in the run for the Republican presidential nomination, Gingrich's second wife is back.

A man who claims he owns half the social network Facebook was fined $5,000 by a federal judge for not providing information related to a case he filed against founder Mark Zuckerberg.

The sports world was turned upside down this afternoon when Parks and Recreation star Rob Lowe reported on Twitter that Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning is retiring.

Passengers on board a Bronx-bound D-Train were forced to evacuate after one suspicious passenger refused to leave the train.

I'm retiring. I'm moving away from the business, from the company, from all this kind of stuff.

Rick Santorum thinks he has a solid shot at winning the Iowa caucuses. The former Pennsylvania Senator expressed hope the official vote tally in the Hawkeye State, set for release by the end of the week, will show him overcoming an 8-vote loss to Mitt Romney to be dubbed the eventual winner.