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Angus King, a former independent two-term governor of Maine, is expected to launch a campaign for the Senate seat held by retiring Sen. Olympia Snowe, a GOP moderate.

Fallout over Rush Limbaugh calling Georgetown Law School student Sandra Fluke a slut and a prostitute is now hurting the conservative radio show host among his core audience, according to a new poll released today.

Thousands of protesters gathered in Moscow and other Russian cities to denounce what they considered an unfair electoral victory Sunday by Vladimir Putin, who will return to his country's presidency in May.

The U.N. nuclear agency chief said Monday that Iran has recently tripled its uranium enrichment and not allowed inspectors to thoroughly investigate its nuclear energy program.

Operation Hilarity, which encouraged Democrats to vote for Rick Santorum, the forum Pennsylvania senator, in last week's Michigan primary, is the brainchild of the popular left-wing blog Daily Kos.

The man who will soon cede the Russian presidency to his mentor has been promised the prime minister's job once the next Putin government is formed. But will the proposed swap happen once the new president is inaugurated in May?

When folks think about President Barack Obama, two specific adjectives flash across millions of American minds: foreign-born and duplicitous. He also reads teleprompters very well.

Only 8.6 percent of Greeks polled held a favorable view of the Germans (who, not coincidentally, happen to be Athens’ largest creditor).

President Obama had some strong words for Iran during his speech on Sunday, but was optimistic about the impact of continued economic sanctions. Reactions to his comments have been largely positive, although interpretations have varied greatly in both Israel and the United States.

A protracted battle for the Republican presidential nomination has damaged how voters perceive the individual candidates and the Republican party in general, according to an NBC/WSJ poll.

The much beleaguered people of Greece have apparently turned the bulk of their anger upon Germany, the most powerful economy in Europe.

The Cleveland Cavs will no longer advertise on Rush Limbaugh's radio show

The U.N. refugee agency said Monday as many as 2000 Syrians had crossed into Lebanon in the last two days, many carrying what few possessions they could.

China Investment Corp., China's sovereign wealth fund, received $30 billion from the Chinese government late last year, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.

U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are meeting on Monday to discuss the ever-intensifying topic of Iran's nuclear program and the possibility of a military strike.

The stunning development was met with cautious optimism by the U.S., South Korea and China,

Attorney General Eric Holder will give a speech Monday outlining the legal justification for use of deadly force in the assassination of U.S.-born al Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, according to an official in President Barack Obama's administration.

Iraqi officials on Monday announced their country's oil production has exceeded 3 million barrels of oil a day, a level not seen in several decades.

Geir Haarde presided over the Iceland's economic meltdown which saw the collapse its three main banks, its currency nosedive and soaring inflation, costing the country billions of dollars.

Andrew Breitbart's cause of death ruling is deferred pending results of toxicological and microscopic studies, the Los Angeles County Department of Coroner has said.

The Supreme Court said the prior verdict was “not complete” and Hekmati, 28, will now be granted a new trial.

Getting the government out of education has become a recurring theme during the 2012 Republican presidential primary, and Rick Santorum has embraced it by emphasizing his decision to home school his children.

China lowered its economic growth target to an eight-year-low of 7.5 percent from an 8 percent goal in place since 2005, a signal that the country's leaders are determined to scale back the reliance on external demand and foreign capital, in favor of domestic consumption.

Vladimir Putin, now prime minister, claimed a resounding victory with 64 percent of the vote in Russia's presidential election Sunday. He'll return to a third term as president, but opponents, citing alleged evidence of fraud, denounced the vote as illegitimate and vowed to continue their protests.

As of Sunday, seven companies have pulled their advertisements from Limbaugh's radio show after the conservative commentator called a Georgetown law student a prostitute and insisted she post online sex videos if she wanted free contraceptive coverage.

After calling Sandra Fluke a “slut” and a “prostitute,” the provocative radio personality has watched eight big advertisers pull their sponsorship from his show, including Carbonite, ProFlowers and Legal Zoom.

Traders throughout the world welcomed BP's settlement news Monday with the company's stock hitting its highest level in more than a year.

Teams of international aid workers from the Red Cross and the Red Crescent entered into parts of the besieged city of Homs, Syria for the first time on Monday.

The 15-month-old girl from Indiana had been found alive in a field Friday after a tornado ripped through her family's mobile home, killing her parents and two siblings.