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Since July, just after general elections in Turkey, Kurdish militants have stepped up their attacks on Turkish military forces.

New research has indicated it now takes the average couple more than four years to save a deposit for their first home.

Voters in two Wisconsin State Senate districts headed to the polls on Tuesday in the last of nine recall elections triggered by the fight earlier this year over Republican-backed curbs on union rights of public workers.

Former Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev told a German magazine that he believes Vladimir Putin is pulling Russia back toward the Communist State he once ran.

The 2010 U.S. Health Care Act could hinge on the votes of two justices, Chief Justice John Roberts (front center), and Justice Anthony Kennedy (front, second from right). Roberts on occasion refuses to join the court's conservative bloc; Kennedy has been one of the justices most protective of state power vs. the federal government.

President Obama began his bus tour through Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois on Monday as he set out to improve his image in the wake of low approval ratings.

President Barack Obama will on Tuesday announce fresh steps to boost rural hiring on the second day of a bus tour through the heartland to explain his economic and job policies to anxious voters.

The legal fate of President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law will likely come down to two Republican appointees on the U.S. Supreme Court -- Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy.

President Barack Obama blasted Republicans over taxes on Monday as he launched a bus tour of the U.S. Midwest to tout his job-growth strategy and distance himself from anger toward Washington that could dent his 2012 re-election hopes.

The trial of Hosni Mubarak in Cairo will be postponed for three weeks. When it resumes, the television cameras will have been removed from the courtroom.

With his approval rating at an all time low, U.S. President Barack Obama launched a Midwest bus tour to improve country moral and reconnect with voters.

Wisconsin's series of recall elections concludes Tuesday when voters go to the polls in two state Senate districts where Democrats are being forced to defend their seats.

Tim Pawlenty has dropped his 2012 GOP presidential nomination bid. Why the move spells trouble for Mitt Romney.

Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann won the Ames, Iowa straw poll on Saturday, a test of strength among the Republican presidential candidates five months before the state's caucuses kick start the GOP presidential nominating season.

Rick Perry is officially a candidate for President of the United States. Here's five reasons the Texas Governor can beat Barack Obama.

?We?ve been willing to talk and willing to move forward,? said union spokeswoman Candice Johnson.

An appeals court dealt a blow to President Barack Obama's healthcare law on Friday, leaving a mark on constitutional law, the healthcare industry, U.S. politics and U.S. states.

President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law suffered a setback on Friday when an appeals court ruled that it was unconstitutional to require all Americans to buy insurance or face a penalty.

Egypt has begun procedures to end the country's three-decade old state of emergency, the government said on Thursday, a key demand of the protesters who toppled President Hosni Mubarak in February.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry warns against travel to the UK during the riots as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calls on the U.N. Security Council to investigate "savage aggression" by police.

Republicans in Wisconsin's Senate emerged from Tuesday's special recall elections with their majority intact, parrying four out of six Democratic challengers who sought to ride a wave of voter anger at a controversial law that sharply curbed unions.