Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown law student whom Rush Limbaugh notoriously labeled a "slut," will introduce President Barack Obama at a rally in Denver on Wednesday, offering further proof that the incumbent's campaign will use women's rights as a key issue in the 2012 presidential election.
A college dropout pleaded guilty on Tuesday to killing six people and wounding 13 others, including then-Representative Gabrielle Giffords, in a shooting rampage in Tucson, Arizona last year.
The Israeli Knesset Speaker has declared that if the Palestinian Authority moves forward with its bid for statehood, Israel will annex parts of the West Bank.
The Obama administration is starting to launch an initiative that could protect hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants from deportation, announcing on Friday that it would start accepting applications in mid-August.
The FBI, probing the Wisconsin Sikh Temple shooting, in which a gunman killed six and critically injured three others on Sunday, hinted that it could be an act of domestic terrorism. Meanwhile, the Sikh community in the U.S calls it a crime of "hate and ignorance."
The controversial Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., wasted no time Sunday in reacting to the tragic death of Philadelphia Eagles head coach Andy Reid's son, Garrett Reid, and the even more tragic shootings at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin.
China criticizes the U.S. for accusing Beijing of escalating tensions in the South China Sea by setting up a new military garrison on a disputed island in the waters.
In the new film "The Campaign," now in theaters, Will Ferrell and Zack Galifianakis play two laughingstocks that run for congress in North Carolina. Here are five things to know about the film.
China has banned Muslim officials and students under the age of 18 in the restive northwestern region of Xinjiang from fasting during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan in an effort to clamp down on religious extremism.
Honduras, which has the world’s highest homicide rate already -- estimated at 86.5 murders per 100,000 inhabitants according to the United Nations -- has witnessed a particularly gruesome spike in carnage in Colon, from two different fronts.
After nine days of fasting, the Team Anna, as the Indian anti-graft activist Anna Hazare and his supporters are known, has decided to call off its indefinite hunger strike Friday and has floated a proposal to form a "political alternative" as an answer to an "unresponsive" government.
As Congress makes it easier for taxpayers to collect refunds from the Internal Revenue Services (IRS), scores of crooks have been stealing people's identities, costing the debt-ridden federal government billions of dollars.
William Patrick Hitler reportedly wrote a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt requesting that he be allowed to enlist in the U.S. military to fight against the Nazis in WWII.
The U.S. Congress passed new sanctions against Iran's oil and nuclear program on Wednesday evening, but Israeli officials remain unconvinced that the sanctions will have the desired effect.
President Barack Obama and presumptive GOP candidate Mitt Romney shifted their election campaigns to some heavily contested states this week, where polls show Democrats have a narrow lead.
China has given a go-ahead for its first major tender of oil and gas blocks in the South China Sea, close on the heels of Beijing establishing a military garrison on a disputed island in the waters.
The U.S. Postal Service went broke on Wednesday, for the first time defaulting on a payment due to the U.S. Treasury to finance postal pensioners' future health care costs.
Disclosure of another lavish party thrown by the U.S. government's buildings and procurement agency prompted fresh attacks on Thursday from Republican lawmakers on wasteful Washington spending under President Barack Obama.
Celebrated author, playwright, politician and commentator Gore Vidal breathed his last Tuesday and left behind a repository of published works and remarks that were famous for their unconventional wit and wisdom.
Congress prepared its own sanctions against Tehran as well, and both the House and Senate will vote on the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act on Wednesday.
Democrats and Republicans in Congress reached a deal on Tuesday to fund federal government activities through next March and eliminate any threat of agency shutdowns that could upset voters ahead of the November 6 presidential and congressional elections.
India is still a Third World country and needs to spend mightily on infrastructure to become the superpower it aspires to.
