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Both Democratic and Republican lawmakers on Friday urged U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to immediately designate the Haqqani network operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan as a foreign terrorist organization.

Peru's defense and interior ministers announced their resignation after facing criticism for their failure to fight leftist drug-trafficking rebels in the country.

Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee said he will petition to Supreme Court to keep in state custody an accused murderer facing federal charges, to avoid the death penalty, which the governor opposes.

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigators are probably in the process of drafting subpoenas against JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM), if they have not already filed them, regarding the bank's loss of $2 billion through proprietary trading, said ex-SEC New York Regional assistant director Joseph Dever.

MSNBC reporter Tamron Hall went off on a Washington Examiner reporter and cut off his microphone after the two got into an argument about Mitt Romney's response to the Washington Post bullying article.

Egypt held the first-ever televised presidential debate in the Arab world on Thursday, featuring frontrunners Amr Moussa and Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, selected from among a total of 13 candidates.

Law-enforcement officers who track the locations of people via their cell phones may be operating outside the bounds of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision, Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., said Thursday.

Glee co-creator Ryan Murphy is yet another Hollywood star to host a fundraiser for U.S. President Barack Obama in the wake of the public support he expressed for same-sex marriage on Wednesday.

The now-familiar call for Washington to lower energy costs by increasing domestic production of oil may not be the most effective policy, according to this month's Congressional Budget Office report on the nation's energy security.

An auction of Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei's porcelain sunflower seeds at Sotheby's in New York on Wednesday has fetched almost $800,000 - but it's unclear how much of the money will find its way to the hundreds of Chinese workers who made them.

Afghanistan will be the focus of a crucial NATO summit in Chicago this month, said NATO Secretary General Ander Fogh Rasmussen during a press conference on Friday. But Pakistan, once a crucial partner in NATO's efforts there, may not be represented at the event.

A new poll will have to be called if parties cannot reach a consensus by next Thursday, as the risk of Greece's exit from the euro looms closer.

Papoulias's office said the president will meet Venizelos on Saturday.

About 250 AI pilots remain on strike, having called in sick since Monday.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said the filibuster has been abused, abused, abused after a bipartisan bill to reauthorize a federal export financing bank was stalled Thursday.

The Spanish government agreed Friday to an independent audit of the holdings of its banking sector, as requested by the European Union. It also said that banks would be required to set aside more cash in the face of losses from toxic loans, as the country's economy teeters from high unemployment and weak economic output, and also offered high-interest loans for weaker lenders.

Members of Green Alliance charged the authorities with fraud for their distant third place finish.

Eduardo Saverin, a Harvard buddy of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg, surrendered his U.S. passport last year when he renounced citizenship, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service said.

George Clooney hosted a $40,000-a-plate fundraiser for President Barack Obama at his Los Angeles home Thursday, May 10. The event, which reportedly took place in a decked out tent at Clooney's L.A. mansion, included 150 of George's closest and richest friends, not to mention a Clooney roast by the Commander in Chief himself.

President Barack Obama's Los Angeles fundraiser with George Clooney broke records Thursday night, capping off a cash boost that came off of his endorsement of gay marriage earlier this week.

A new documentary features embattled Wisconsin governor Scott Walker reassuring a wealthy donor that he would pursue a divide and conquer tactic to undercut public sector unions.

Despite RBI's desperate efforts to prop it up, rupee declined by 18 paise to reach 53.60 against dollar in the late morning trade on Friday. However, rupee stabilized in the later sessions at 53.54/55 before closing at 53.45 and India's industrial production surprisingly declined by 3.5 percent in March, for the first time in five months, prompting the industry to seek cut in interest rates.

The naval standoff between China and the Philippines in the South China Sea has the two countries on the brink of conflict, but a demonstration in Manila against China has been sparsely attended, offering hope that an escalation can be avoided.

Lead poisoning in Nigeria's northern state of Zamfara has sickened about 4,000 children and killed 400 in recent years. On Friday, international medical aid organization Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) condemned the Nigerian government for failing to intervene.

Following Trayvon Martin's death, Florida voters say they want local authorities to have more oversight over neighborhood watch groups in the wake of neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman shooting and killing the 15-year-old boy.

In a vote that solidifies the Republican Party's economic platform heading into the 2012 election, the House voted on Thursday to reverse mandated cuts to the Pentagon by slashing social assistance programs that largely benefit poor Americans.

State media said the Bashar al-Assad regime had called on the UN Security Council and Ban Ki-moon for assistance in tackling the escalating crimes committed by terrorists receiving help from abroad.

Consumer sentiment crept up slightly in May to its highest level in four years as gasoline prices declined and many perceived the job market to be improving.

Edward Klein's unauthorized biography contains several alleged, bombshell revelations.