WORLD

South Korean authorities arrested a 24-year-old South Korean man for retweeting a message about Kim Jong Il, the late North Korean dictator. Amnesty International is backing the young man's case, stating that the South Korean government doesn't understand sarcasm.

Faced with international political tensions, disruptive weather and natural disasters and global economic woes, oil companies in the U.S. and Europe reported overall declining earnings for the fourth quarter, even as they earned. The good news is that the U.S. became a net energy exporter for the first time since 1949.

Donald Trump officially endorsed Mitt Romney for president on Thursday, praising the Republican front-runner for his business sense and stance on foreign policy.

Senators sparred on Thursday over the impending cut of more than half a trillion dollars from the military budget, with Republicans trying to avert cuts that Democrats insisted were mandated by law.

The NDAA was passed more than a month ago, but opponents are keeping up their fight to get the U.S. Congress to repeal the National Defense Authorization Act.

Seventy-four people were killed during riots following a soccer match in Egypt on Wednesday night, and furious Egyptians have again turned their anger to the ruling Supreme Council of the armed forces.

Back in 1998, when Newt Gingrich was still speaker and Joe Paterno was a living legend at Penn State, the Republican politician revealed that the football coach had given him advice on how to govern the U.S. House of Representatives (watch here), including viewing his fellow GOP congressmen as assistant coaches, like the now-infamous Jerry Sandusky.

Rick Santorum has picked up a last-minute endorsement in Nevada from Sharron Angle, a popular Tea Party figure who ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 2010. How much will Angle's backing help Santorum's struggling campaign?

Singer Bono is set to make almost $1 billion in profit when Facebook goes public later this year, it emerged today. Wednesday's $5 billion dollar Facebook IPO is set to make thousands of stock holders a fortune, including the U2 front man who, through his investment vehicle Elevation Partners, bought a one percent stake in the social network for $90 million in 2009.

The Ron Paul campaign has sent out an e-mail to reporters blasting Donald Trump's endorsement of Mitt Romney, claiming Trump endorsed the arch enemy of all Republicans by previously backing Harry Reid. Asking the media to note the delicious irony of the real estate mogul backing Romney as a nominee, Ron Paul's campaign e-mail went viral even before Trump made his endorsement official.

Nearly two dozen U.S. senators have signed a letter to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, urging it to reinstate funding to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screening exams for low-income women, The Washington Post is reporting.

A blizzard is expected to hit central U.S. late Thursday and into Friday, dumping at least a dozen inches of snow in the Eastern Plains region, including Nebraska, Colorado and Kansas. The area could see up to 24 inches of snow.

Hayhoe said she has received threatening and intimidating e-mails after a conservative blogger posted her e-mail address on his Web site.

Striking a more moderate tone than his 2012 Republican presidential rivals, U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, Wednesday told Hispanic voters in Nevada that tough border enforcement was not an effective immigration policy.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is once again facing criticism from oil and natural gas companies over its controversial findings in Wyoming, in which a draft study links hydraulic fracturing to ground water contamination.

According to legend, Punxsutawney Phil's predicts there will be six more weeks of winter before spring arrives, but is the Groundhog Day 2012 prediction right about winter?

Baby Lisa Irwin has been missing for nearly four months and her parents, Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin, continue to claim that she was taken from their home. Nearly three months since the couple’s last media interview, Bradley and Irwin will share their side of the story on the Dr. Phil Show on Friday, Feb. 3.

A wealthy man from Florida has adopted his 42-year-old girlfriend as a daughter. Many people say his move is to safeguard his property during an upcoming lawsuit in connection with a fatal car accident.

Mit Romney has been dogged from the early days of his campaign about his ability to connect to the Tea Party voters who were instrumental in reshaping the political landscape in 2010, but in the Florida primary he captured a large portion of the Tea Party vote. Experts say his success owes partially to a broad shift towards Tea Party philosophies.

Two of Facebook’s three biggest existing markets (by number of users) are India and Indonesia.

The Osama Bin Laden death photos may be released to the public after all, after a Department of Justice ruling raised the possibility that portions of images or video of the al-Qaeda leader could be disclosed without core harm to national security.

President Goodluck Jonathan is under extreme pressure to end the insurgency

Topless Protest at Political Summit: Feminist Arrested At Davos Forum [VIDEO, PHOTOS]

Claims for jobless benefits in the fourth week of January dropped after an uptick in the prior week. Economists said January has historically been more volatile than the rest of the year.

Indiana became the 23rd state to pass anti-union right-to-work legislation on Wednesday and the first in the nation's manufacturing heartland, dealing a blow to organized labor by allowing workers to opt out of paying union dues.

U.S. job cuts surged 28 percent in January to its highest level in four months as retailers and financial firms cut jobs.

If Gilani is convicted of contempt, he faces up to six months in prison and would be disqualified from holding public office in the future.

There are now more than 26,000 prisoners above age 65. There are more than 124,000 prisoners age 55 or older.

Washington Gay Marriage: State Senate Passes Bill Proposed by Gov. Gregoire. Late last night the Washington State Senate voted in support of House Bill 2516, making it that much more likely that Washington will become the seventh state in the U.S. to legalize gay and lesbian marriage.