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The Reserve Bank of India is expected to ease rates at the forthcoming policy meeting July 31 amid growing concerns about the deteriorating growth prospects of the country's economy.

As U.S. President Barack Obama shifts the focus of his re-election campaign from joblessness to income inequality, unemployment has increased in more than one-half the country's states this year.

The Kalashnikov is a modern icon - one that's responsible for uncountable deaths, possibly including those in the Colorado massacre. It's cheap, it's plentiful, and in the middle of America, pretty easy to find

Iraqi troops mobilized to seal border crossings into Syria on Friday after Syrian rebels occupied government posts on their own side of the border.

A Bush spokesman said the former president is enjoying his time off the political stage and declined his invitation to this year's GOP convention.

Brian Ross of ABC News suggested this morning that the alleged shooter in Aurora, Colorado may have had connections to the Tea Party.

President Obama will suspend campaign events following shortened campaign remarks in Fort Myers, Fla. this morning in light of the tragedy that occurred last night at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado.

A group of U.S. Congress members demanded on Friday that the United Nations take responsibility for the cholera outbreak that hit the nation of Haiti beginning in 2010. The UN has so far not implicated itself in the incident.

The richest 10 percent of Americans hold a staggering 74.5 percent of the nation's wealth, the Congressional Research Service reports.

The number of dead from that nine-month war of secession remains unknown and controversial – estimates range from 300,000 to as many as 3-million.

Just as the Trayvon Martin shooting prompted a re-examination of Florida's Stand Your Ground law, the Aurora massacre could lead to more scrutiny of Colorado's laws. Here's a primer.

It seems that we witness a similar massacre about once a year or so in the U.S.

What guns laws are like elsewhere in the world, and how the U.S. outranks every other nation in gun ownership

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is proposing that money market managers be empowered to hold back depositors' money for 30 days in the event of a run on funds. The controversial proposal is being called by critics a kind of capital control.

President Obama has been in heavy campaign mode lately, but he stayed away from politics during a Friday morning speech addressing the massacre at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado.

After learning of the tragic news from Aurora, Colo., that a lone gunman opened fire on a theatre full of local patrons in attendance of a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises, President Barack Obama responded to the news on Friday morning in front of a crowd in Fort Myers, Fla. We have the full transcript of President Obama's speech on the terrible tragedy.

In the aftermath of a deadly Colorado shooting, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg urged President Obama and Mitt Romney to say how they would prevent future incidents of gun violence.

The latest shootout will likely spur another national debate on gun laws, but according to Gallup, public opinion is pretty much on the side of liberal gun ownership laws -- and that doesn't mean liberal in the political, tree-hugging sense of the word.

The editor of Outlook denied that his publication’s cover story was a response to Time’s broadside against Singh.

As of July 18, 120,000 Syrian refugees (perhaps many more) have also sought protection in Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Turkey.

A senior Iraqi official told the New York Times that all four of the country's crossings into Syria have now been closed, because the rebels have seized the Syrian sides of them.

Communal tensions continued to flare in western Myanmar six weeks into the declaration of a state of emergency in the region, even as targeted attacks and human rights violations by the security forces against the minority community of the Rohingya and other Muslims have increased, said Amnesty International on Friday.

Your burger won't get cheaper any time soon, and it's not just because of the current Midwest drought. (You'll feel that next year.)

President Barack Obama's weekend statement on Indian economic slowdown and recent downgrading of the country's sovereign credit ratings by the global rating agencies has evoked strong criticism from India. The Indian government and a section of authorities have blamed the global rating agencies and foreign investors for misjudging the Indian economy and deliberately trying to downgrade India's image.

Rebels seized control of parts of Syria's international borders Thursday and torched the main police headquarters in the heart of old Damascus, advancing relentlessly after the assassination of President Bashar al-Assad's closest lieutenants.

U.S. officials said Thursday the suicide bomber responsible for a deadly attack on Israeli vacationers in Bulgaria was a member of a Hezbollah cell that was operating in the country and looking for such targets, backing Israel’s assertions.

On Monday, Chick-Fil-A president Dan Cathy gave an interview with the Baptist Press stating that he was guilty as charged on calls that the company is anti-gay and donates money to organizations opposing marriage equality. Now the corporation has made a statement on their Facebook that seems to back-peddle after Cathy's comments.

Omar Suleiman former VP of Egypt and a close aid to Hosni Mubarak, died on the early hours of Thursday. According to state news agency MENA, he died of a sudden heart attack after suffering heart and lung problems. Preparations are under way to bring his body home for burial.

A summary report released Thursday by the law firm David Polk and Wardell LLP graphically illustrates the mind-boggling complexity -- and high level of delay -- regulators have faced attempting to implement Dodd-Frank.