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The decision, subject to final parliamentary approval, will pave the way for India’s 29th state.

The country’s largest bank will pay a record amount to settle FERC’s claim that the bank manipulated electricity markets between 2010 and 2012.

Secretary of State John Kerry said the two parties will meet within the next two weeks to start negotiations.

Rand Paul and Chris Christie, possible rivals for the 2016 presidential race, continue their feud.

Sydney Leathers, the 23-year-old former sexting partner of NYC mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, made a memorable appearance on 'The Howard Stern Show.'

The US Gov. says the metadata program may stop the next 9/11; critics say it is not valuable enough to justify the privacy intrusion.

The SEC and U.S. Attorney’s Office says Aggarwal bought shares in the Yahoo-Microsoft deal using his contacts at Microsoft.

Congress members who voted "no" to ending NSA metadata collection got twice as much contributions from pro-NSA interest groups as "yes" votes.

The majority of these applicants have been resident in the U.K. for several years.

The Justice Department is set to finish a declassification review by Sept. 12.

Many politicians end up getting caught having an extramarital affair. But one official in China managed to have 140.

The WikiLeaks whistle-blower was convicted of five counts of espionage and acquitted of the most serious charge, aiding the enemy.

Opinion polls indicate that Tsvangirai and Mugabe are in a dead heat.

The president plans to push a corporate tax overhaul to break the logjam, but Republicans ask: What about individuals and small businesses?

The country's economy is growing steadily, but the number of poor people in Mexico rose by a half million in the last two years.

Serbia's government is hoping to see Dominique Strauss-Kahn join as an adviser as the country is trying to enter the European Union and get its economy back on track.

It is once again legal to sell, purchase and consume drinks larger than 16 ounces in New York City, a state appellate court ruled Tuesday.

More than three years after his arrest, the verdict in the court-martial of Bradley Manning is expected at 1 p.m. ET Tuesday.

People who wield influence in Republican circles think immigration reform should follow along the lines of what the Senate has already done.

The president is meeting with Israeli and Palestinian negotiators in Washington -- the first direct talks between both sides since 2010.

The presidential office is now largely ceremonial after Zardari agreed to amendments in the constitution in 2010.

The Obama administration is going after whistle-blowers hard. But there are key differences between the two most famous ones.

Russian President Vladimir Putin may or may not have caught a big fish while in Siberia.

An 18-year-old on a streetcar was shot and killed by a Toronto police officer, who was suspended after a video of the incident went viral.

To make matters worse, both have repeatedly denied their accusers, lied, then got caught, made phony apologies, then lied again.

Militants dressed in police uniforms, on Monday night, attacked a prison in Dera Ismail Khan located near Pakistan’s restive tribal region.

The center will study the ideology of the late comandante -- but first it has to define one.

Websites that dig up censored content blocked by China's Great Firewall mostly end up being blocked as well.

Why do violent Chinese insurgents get labeled "freedom fighters" instead of what they would be elsewhere, namely, "terrorists?"