Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell signed a law Wednesday requiring women seeking abortions to have an ultrasound -- but not a more invasive vaginal probe.
Iran may be cleaning up a suspected nuclear-weapons development site to fool U.N. inspectors, Western officials briefed on satellite intelligence said Wednesday.
Issa, avoiding many of the thread's more substantive questions, chose to focus on intellectual property, his favorite gadgets and his love for Two and a Half Men.
Proposed federal congressional redistricting in New York City reinforces a demographic criticism that ties the north Brooklyn neighborhoods of Williamsburg and Greenpoint, as well as Queens' Astoria, with Manhattan's Upper East Side.
Over 40 advertisers with the Rush Limbaugh show said they ditched the show because of offensive comments the conservative talk show host made about Georgetown University Law student Sandra Fluke, but Limbaugh is claiming they all lied.
FBI Director Robert Mueller says agency will resort to physical surveillance teams.
Employers probably hired more than 200,000 workers for a third straight month in February, indicating that companies are feeling more upbeat about the U.S. economic recovery, economists said before a report this week.
Camille and Haley Harris are 15-and-16-year-old daughters of a pastor and they're the perfect Santorum fans.
Fran Drescher, lady of the famous The Nanny laugh and star of the TV Land comedy Happily Divorced, had harsh words for outspoken marriage equality opponent Kirk Cameron Tuesday night.
President Moncef Marzouki made the same proposal last week, but it is unclear if Assad responded to him or not.
Vermonters overwhelmingly voted in favor of constitutional amendment that would clearly state that corporations do not have the same constitutionally-protected rights as human beings.
The press agency of Lebanon's Hezbollah movement charged Wednesday that the CIA, Israel's Mossad and private security firms have been exposed supporting Syrian rebels in Homs.
A Minnesota school district that came to crystallize a national debate about anti-gay bullying has agreed to institute broad new protections for students.
Some members of Ukraine's parliament, on a visit to Damascus, expressed solidarity with Assad as well as opposition to foreign intervention in the Middle Eastern country.
The British Warrior vehicle was traveling over unpaved roads in the Nar-e-Saraj area of the province, where British troops have been training local police officers and security forces for about a year.
A new European Union law preventing insurers discriminating on the basis of gender will see the cost of premiums for women across the continent rise when it comes into effect later this year.
Rush Limbaugh has incurred a slew of backlash for admittedly choosing two wrong words to characterize Georgetown student Sandra Fluke as promiscuous.
The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council met on Wednesday to draft a new resolution in hopes of ending nearly a year of violence in Syria.
A video emerged Wednesday of Barack Obama protesting at Harvard, in alliance with Professor Derick Bell's push for diversity in 1990.
This terrible situation has no simple answers, Panetta added.
Another trend is sweeping across Twitter, gaining much popularity among ordinary citizens and celebrities who have been mobilized to action to end the reign of Joseph Kony, leader of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army or LRA.
Rick Santorum did well among Ohio Republicans who want their party's nominee to be a true conservative. Though he narrowly lost to Mitt Romney in Ohio, Santorum won primaries in Tennessee and Oklahoma as well as North Dakota's caucus.
Rick Santorum isn't the only presidential hopeful encouraged by Mitt Romney's tepid showing on Super Tuesday. Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod told NBC News that the results reveal Romney's enduring faults.
Juppe’s stand would seem to contradict the more belligerent tone that French President Nicolas Sarkozy has taken with respect to the Iranians.
If Rush Limbaugh hasn’t already offended enough young women across America, today’s comment might just do it. On this morning’s show, the controversial radio host made another insulting inference aimed at the female population.
Rumors are flying, and I’m certain they’re based on fact, that Ron Paul supporters are going to sit out the general election.
Mitt Romney's failure to secure a decisive victory on Super Tuesday underscores lingering questions about his candidacy and almost guarantees the Republican presidential nomination will stretch on.
In a televised interview Tuesday night, the French president up for re-election Nicolas Sarkozy, claimed there were too many immigrants in France. He suggested a mass scaledown of foreign entries to jump-start the French integration system.
The comments come as more private investors signed up to a crucial debt swap deal set to make or break the country's continued use of the Euro and its membership of the EU.
An Indian journalist was arrested on Tuesday as a suspect in last month's bombing of an Israeli diplomat's car in New Delhi.