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A 12th U.S. military service member was linked to a prostitution scandal in Colombia Monday and the Pentagon suspended the security clearance of personnel implicated in the events ahead of President Barack Obama's visit earlier this month.

Sudanese war planes bombed a market in the capital of South Sudan's oil-producing Unity State Monday, residents and officials said, an attack the southern army called a declaration of war.

In a stark reminder of how the recession has damaged the employment prospects of young Americans, an analysis found that more than half of recent college graduates are out of work or toiling in unskilled jobs.

Expensive federal food stamp programs have become a hot-button issue in recent weeks, and a Senate bill now in the works ensures that the highly politicized congressional debate is only just beginning.

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir said Monday he refused to enter into peace negotiations with South Sudan as the North conducted a series of air strikes against southern targets along the oil-rich border region, which has been the site of ongoing skirmishes.

Solicitor General Donald Verrilli and top Republican lawyer Paul Clement will battle at the U.S. Supreme Court again this week when the justices hear a case over Arizona's strict immigration law.

Speaking at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, President Obama announced a new strategy against atrocities and genocide.

President Barack Obama will announce sanctions on Monday on those helping Syria and Iran acquire technology that lets them target dissidents through their cell phone and Internet use.

As many as six US Secret Service employees have been fired so far in the Colombian prostitute scandal that came to light after a high-end escort refused to leave the premises till an agent paid her $800 for the services.

President Barack Obama will issue an order on Monday to allow imposition of sanctions on foreign nationals who use new technologies such as cell-phone tracking and Internet monitoring to help carry out human rights abuses, The Washington Post reported on Monday.

Afghanistan and the United States agreed Sunday on a draft of a long-awaited deal that will define the scope and nature of a U.S. presence in the country for up to a decade after the pullout of most NATO combat troops in 2014.

Veteran U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah will face a Republican primary fight after delegates to a party convention on Saturday denied him the nomination, forcing him into an election with a Tea Party-backed challenger who finished second.

The cause of death has been revealed for Andrew Breitbart, the conservative blogger and entrepreneur who died on March 1 at the age of 43.

It's been confirmed that three more Secret Service employees resigned on Friday amid a prostitution scandal in Colombia. This raises the total number of employees to leave the U.S. Secret Service due to the recent misconduct to six.

Mitt Romney, the newly minted presumptive GOP presidential nominee, sought to rally Republican Party officials around his campaign Friday with a speech tearing into President Barack Obama and his economic record.

Titanic was a film that made movie history 15 years ago and with the 3d release last week it managed to break some more records. While many movie goers flocked to the 3d release for the nostalgia and some saw it on the big screen for the first time, the actors from the movie all had different reactions to it.

The U.S. Secret Service (USSS) may have led media reports in recent days with a number of its members embroiled in a Colombian prostitution scandal, but making headlines is unusual for the historically secretive federal law-enforcement agency.

The U.S. military on Friday said it is investigating 11 service members for alleged misconduct in Colombia, according to the Associated Press.

Balancing the ticket with a Hispanic running mate would do little to alter Romney's weak standing among Latinos, according to a new Public Policy Polling analysis.

Three more employees with the U.S. Secret Service could lose their jobs on Friday, a source has told the Associated Press. That would bring the number of ousted employees caught up in an alleged prostitution scandal in Colombia to six.

Dania Suarez, the woman who has been exposed as one of the alleged prostitute in the Secret Service scandal, has reportedly gone into hiding after her photos were been exposed, the New York Daily News reported on Friday. Reports are that she has left Cartagena, Colombia.