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A Russian court paved the way for a potential closure of video-sharing website YouTube by banning an anti-Islam video on Monday that sparked violent protests across the Muslim world.

Affirmative action, voting rights and same-sex marriage could all be up for rulings in this very important session.

A survivor of the Aurora movie theater shootings is urging candidates to offer their plans to combat gun violence during Wednesday's presidential debate.

More than 25 years after they fled into exile, Imelda Marcos and her children are big-time players in Filipino politics.

Perot said the last thing he wants to see is another country taking over an America that is financially weak and powerless.

Practicing sexual orientation change efforts (SOCE) or "gay cure" therapy on minors has been banned in California.

Therapy to steer minors away from homosexuality will be banned in California on Jan. 1. Psychotherapists could lose licenses for ignoring law.

Israel's foreign minister seemed to contradict Netanyahu by asserting that sanctions against Iran are succeeding.

Massachusetts Senate Candidate Elizabeth Warren is leading Republican Sen. Scott Brown; a new poll from The Hill reports a majority of likely voters believe President Obama will win a second term.

GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan heads to Iowa as the Libya fallout continues.

Libyan intelligence claims Syrian President Bashar al-Assad provided info to French agents about Moammar Gadhafi's location.

Three NATO soldiers along with 10 Afghans were killed in a suicide bomb attack in the crowded center of Khost City in eastern Afghanistan Monday morning, news agencies reported quoting officials.

An Iranian jury Sunday found the Tehran bureau chief of the Reuters news agency guilty of “spreading lies” and “propaganda against the regime,” for a video story that erroneously described female ninja students as assassins, Iranian media said.

A massive crowd thronged the streets of Venezuela’s capital Caracas in support of opposition candidate Henrique Capriles Sunday, a week ahead of the country’s presidential election.

Tickets are not being sold for the popular musical "Jesus Christ Superstar," whose production in Russia could be at risk after the tension that's been rising since the Pussy Riot controversy.

A medieval souk, the pride of Aleppo, has become a casualty of Syria's civil war.

In dueling Sunday talk-show turns, Chris Christie and Paul Ryan both loyally supported Mitt Romney, but had little else in common.

The Russian Orthodox Church, hinting at leniency, urged Pussy Riot to repent Sunday, on the eve of an appeals court ruling on the band’s sentences for performing an anti-Putin song in a Moscow cathedral.

More than 30 people died in bombings and shootings across Iraq Sunday, underscoring the government's struggle with a stubborn insurgency more than nine months after the last U.S. troops withdrew.

A member of the NATO-led force in Afghanistan and a civilian contractor have been killed in the latest insider attack by a member of the Afghan security forces.

A few months into power, President Francois Hollande's party wants to make prostitution illegal.

Nongovernmental organizations want Mexico to push Wal-Mart to come clean about the guest workers in its supply chain.

Retiring U.S. Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., blasted GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney Thursday for failing to mention the armed forces during his nomination-acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention last month.

Women constitute the majority sex in Egypt and played key roles in its revolution. But their government appears to have cast them aside.

A volunteer for Florida’s Clay County Republican Party went wildly off-message this week, calling elderly voters and telling them President Barack Obama is “a Muslim” with a “socialistic view” of the U.S.

Only 43 percent of Bloomberg News poll respondents had a favorable view of U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

Downing Street had to do some damage control after claims surfaced Prime Minister David Cameron chose to play tennis instead of taking the president's call.

First Lady Michelle Obama's efforts to help students eat a healthy lunch are under attack at a New Jersey high school.

Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the filmmaker behind 'Innocence of Muslims,' has been jailed without bond, pending a court hearing.