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A man connected to the Republican Party was arrested after reports allege the man of throwing out completed voter registration forms in Virginia.

President Barack Obama led in three Midwestern states in polls released Thursday, while the Mitt Romney campaign, apparently confident of carrying North Carolina, is beginning to shift its staff there to Ohio.

President Obama and Governor Romney will be speaking at a light-hearted charity event in New York City.

A Libyan Islamist militia commander accused of leading the Sept. 11 assault on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi said Thursday he was there that night, but denied he was involved in the attack.

Gaomi, China, the hometown of Nobel-winning novelist Mo Yan, will get a $107 million makeover to create a 'Culture Experience Zone.'

FBI officials claim Nafis moved to the country specifically to carry out terror attacks, not to pursue higher education

Mitt Romney widened his lead over President Barack Obama to seven points in a national tracking poll released by Gallup Thursday.

A search for “binder” on Amazon yields an abundance of reviews judging the binders on how well they hold women.

Japan's main opposition leader Shinzo Abe has irked China and South Korea by visiting a shrine honoring convicted war criminals. The brouhaha could embroil the U.S., as well

Four people were killed at a Florida hair salon Thursday, in what police are calling a domestic dispute.

A list of Alexis Wright's alleged clients was released on Tuesday, exposing former South Portland mayor James Soule.

Fenton asked both President Obama and Romney what they would do to address pay inequality among women.

The leopard population in Nepal has climbed since the 1980s when the government initiated a program to regenerate degraded forest areas.

U.N. Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi is urging the Syrian regime and rebels to respect a cease-fire during the Muslim Holiday Eid al-Adha.

Another court strikes down DOMA, as the Supreme Court weighs whether to hear a case.

Here's a list of the 15 other foiled terror plots aimed at NYC since Sept. 11, 2001.

Uruguay's decision to legalize abortion sparks new debates on the clash between reproductive rights and Catholicism in Latin America.

On a call, Romney said he hoped business owners would "make it very clear to your employees what you believe is in the best interest of your enterprise" in the 2012 election.

The British government has reported a rise in human trafficking, particularly from East and Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa.

A new analysis of Romney's proposed $25,000 cap on itemized deductions finds that cap still would not raise enough revenue to offset the plan's tax cuts.

Is fixing the nation's economic problem as simple as electing a CEO president? Not so, say experts.

Madagascar is a poor and politically unstable country heavily dependent of foreign aid, which dried up after a coup in March 2009.

President Obama will tape an interview with "The Daily Show with John Stewart"; First Lady Michelle Obama says her husband "didn't point fingers" to blame former President Bush for the nation's lagging economy during Tuesday night's presidential debate.

Trump, Rodriguez and Bryant share many of the same qualities and are largely despised by a wide swath of the American public.

Paul Ryan spends the day in Florida; Ann Romney names Hillary Clinton as one of her "heroes"; the Romney camp calls a new analysis of the GOP presidential nominee's tax reform proposal "misleading and deceitful."

Marie Stopes, the British women’s rights activist that an abortion provider NGO is named after, was a great admirer of Hitler and Nazi-style eugenics.

Reiterating earlier concerns raised by human rights groups including Amnesty over enforced disappearances of thousands of members of Syrian opposition, activists working in Syria estimate at least 28,000 people have gone missing since protests against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime erupted 18 months ago.

A Bangladeshi student, who came to the U.S. allegedly to wage Jihad, was arrested Wednesday after he attempted to blow up a 1,000-pound fake bomb outside the Federal Reserve building in Manhattan, the FBI said in a statement.

The U.S. State Department had employed a little-known British firm to manage the security in the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi which in turn hired unarmed Libyans to guard the consulate premises, under a deal that fell out of line with the department’s usual practice of using larger firms to watch danger zones.