Human Rights Watch released a new report that documents an epidemic of sexual harassment and sexual violence against female immigrant farmworkers by employers, supervisors, and others in the workplace.
New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly made some changes to the controversial stop-and-frisk policy that disproportionally affects young black and Latino men.
Italy recalled its ambassador to India on Friday afternoon after two Italian marines were charged with murdering two Indian fishermen earlier in the day.
A day after the largest bank in Japan agreed to comply with a U.S. District Court order barring it from doing business with Iran, bankers and government officials in Tokyo are reportedly trying to find a way to circumvent the commercial embargo.
East Texas has been shaken this past week by two earthquakes, and the region's natural gas drilling could be what has triggered them.
In a report, the South Korean Institute for National Unification said it had interviewed around 230 North Korean exiles who had personally witnessed executions of those found guilty of cannibalism and selling human flesh.
Florida election supervisors are reacting warily to a statewide effort to cleanse the rolls of non-citizens, warning that inaccurate or obsolete data could lead them to disenfranchise eligible voters.
While global leaders obsess over the likelihood of debt-stricken Greece departing the euro zone, an emerald isle 1,800 miles away from Athens may be on the brink of needing another financial bailout.
Iran is getting a visit from the United Nations' nuclear agency on Sunday, a surprise development as Iran prepares for scheduled talks with Western powers next week.
With the euro under threat and looming nuclear showdowns in Iran and North Korea, the Heidi-like retreat of Camp David in Maryland will come as a welcome break for the beleaguered leaders as they gather for this weekend's Group of 8 summit.
The Japanese government is asking businesses and homes to conserve electricity during the summer in order to avoid blackouts, but efforts to restart nuclear reactors continue to encounter resistance by political opponents of the national government.
In a talk at New York's Princeton Club, Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times Columnist Paul Krugman said the solution to create more jobs and get the U.S. economy to grow faster isn't rocket science: it's fiscal stimulus.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has proposed that Greece hold a referendum on its membership in the euro zone in tandem with the snap parliamentary elections scheduled for June 17.
Events hosted by George Clooney and Ricky Martin were just the beginning of a summer packed with events featuring A-list movie stars and musicians ? including Jon Bon Jovi, Mariah Carey, Sarah Jessica Parker and P!nk.
Sen. John McCain, the Republican author of a bipartisan campaign-finance law at the heart of the Citizens United case, filed a brief with Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse urging U.S. Supreme Court justices to uphold a Montana anti-corruption law that bans independent corporate political spending.
Facebook has become a showcase for vulgar narcissism and voyeurism.
Lawmakers rejected the Smith-Amash amendment, which would have barred the indefinite military detention, without charge or trial, of terror suspects apprehended on U.S. soil.
Mitt Romney?s rejection of a Super-Pac?s proposed anti-Obama campaign featuring Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the president?s former pastor, demonstrates that Romney has more political sense than the Super-Pac?s big daddy, Joe Ricketts, a longtime conservative donor and founder of TD Ameritrade.
The U.S. Commerce Department has imposed hefty tariffs on Chinese solar panel imports, a move the Obama administration is saying comes as a response to uncompetitive Chinese export practices.
There are currently about 130,000 foreign troops in the country, with Americans accounting for about 90,000 of them.
Speaking from Damascus on Friday, a leader of the United Nations observer mission in Syria said the U.N. monitors' presence alone would not be enough to stop the ongoing violence there.
Alexander Gniteyev, an engineer at the Avtomatika production plant in the city of Yekaterinburg, was found guilty of leaking classified information about Russia?s Bulava intercontinental ballistic missiles to foreign intelligence agencies
Days after the Alabama legislature voted to update a stringent immigration law considered among the toughest in the nation, Governor Robert Bentley has called for a special legislative session to address his concerns with the law.
India Friday announced a set of austerity measures in a desperate attempt to prop up economy and to instill investor confidence.
The European Union and European Central Bank have a contingency plan in place in the event that Greece is forced to exit the euro zone, according to EU trade commissioner Karel De Gucht. However, he did not divulge the details of this contingency plan.
Guards have surrounded the prison, but to avoid a bloodbath, Prison Governor Orlando Leiva has ordered them stay outside
Turkey, which does not recognize the Cyprus government, and has repeatedly warned against exploration for oil and gas deposits on the island, launched its own exploration effort in the breakaway Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
The Romney campaign unleashed its first general election ad on Friday morning, in which the presumed Republican nominee promises to make changes to Obama's policies during his first day in office
A controversial book released this week claims Michelle Obama had plans to divorce President Barack Obama, resurfacing the story that allegedly took place in 2000 before his presidency.
Iran is good at playing this chess game.
