Businessman and reality TV personality Donald Trump will endorse former House Speaker Newt Gingrich for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination Thursday, several media outlets reported Wednesday night.
The favorite to win Mexico's presidential election this July said on Wednesday the country must favor local investors over foreign competitors in strategic sectors of the economy, including telecommunications.
The House of Representatives, seeking to cut the U.S. deficit and burnish its own tarnished image, passed a bill Wednesday to extend a pair of pay freezes for federal workers, including its own members.
Lawmakers are considering a bid to force President Barack Obama's administration to blacklist Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in an effort to thwart Tehran's nuclear capabilities, a congressional aide said on Wednesday.
The head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has ordered an extensive review of how futures brokerages are regulated, following the collapse of MF Global three months ago, a CFTC official told Reuters on Wednesday.
As a protest for being evicted from their parking lot trailer home, Mateus and Leonor Silva returned last week to set the structure ablaze. Portugal, among several other European countries, are seeing social unrest after adopting severe austerity measures that have cut back on services for the needy, including the unemployed and homeless
Boko Haram spokesperson Abu Qaqa was arrested by Nigeria's secret service during an early morning raid on Wednesday.
A former unpaid intern for Harper's Bazaar has filed a lawsuit contending that the magazine's parent company illegally employed her full time without providing any compensation.
Mitt Romney was glitter-bombed by a gay activist Wednesday in Minnesota as he took the stage at a political rally the day after he won the Florida GOP primary.
Amnesty said that Park may be looking at seven years in jail.
It is hailed as the most important stock market event of the decade. Rumors of Facebook's highly anticipated IPO filing on Wednesday excited stock watchers around the world as the California-based company moves to raise as much as $10 billion - valuing the company at a staggering $100 billion.
They had fled the recent civil war in Sri Lanka between Tamils and the Sinhalese.
Tom Tancredo, a former Colorado congressman and 2008 presidential candidate, endorsed Rick Santorum for the Republican presidential nomination on Wednesday, giving a small boost to Santorum's long-shot campaign after he finished a distant third in the Florida primary.
John Fox, director of the documentary Gasland, was arrested during a Republican-dominated congressional hearing on Wednesday, raising questions about the hearing's public access.
In most European polls, and in an ever-increasing number of American surveys, Israel is viewed as evil and very “self-serving,” as opposed to being open-minded like the rest of the world’s nations.
A video posted to YouTube today shows Syrian rebels in the city of Homs turning the artillery of a captured tank on the regime.
At least 70 people were killed when riots broke out between soccer fans of rival Egyptian football teams in Port Said, Egypt on Wednesday. Hundreds were injured in the riots and there is uncertainty of how many fans were killed. Take a look at the most deadly incidents in football history.
Tyler, a senior strategist for super PAC Winning Our Future and a former Gingrich aide, accused MSNBC of race baiting on Tuesday, and the Democratic Party of failing the black community on economic and social issues. But when Rachel Maddow and Rev. Al Sharpton challenged his argument, Tyler ended up playing into one of the most racially charged conspiracy theories out there: the Black Genocide theory.
Francois Hollande, the likely Socialist Party candidate in France's presidential elections, was hit in the face by flour during a speech in Paris on Wednesday. He joins a list of other great leaders who have been the victim of political pranks
Millionaires would pay a minimum 30 percent effective tax rate under a law introduced on Wednesday in the Senate with the backing of President Barack Obama and named after billionaire investor Warren Buffett.
Mitt Romney will receive Secret Service protection starting Wednesday, the day after he won the Florida primary by a 14-point margin over Newt Gingrich.
The French aviation company, Dassault, defeated Eurofighter in India's $10.4 billion bid. Negotiations are now in the works for Dassault to sell 126 Rafale combat aircrafts to the Indian Air Force.
Rick Tyler accuses Democrats of wanting to abort black babies while arguing Gingrich has not made disparaging remarks about the African American community.
Romney has shown a propensity for making tone-deaf statements that remind voters of his immense wealth and corporate background. Here is a list of the five most cringe-worthy.
Wealthy Republican businessman Marc Cenedella, criticized for lascivious blog posts he published about sex and drugs, announced he was not going to challenge Kirsten Gillibrand for her New York Senate seat.
Groundhog Day is upon us. Up in Punxsutawney, Penn., the famous prognosticating groundhog Phil may see his shadow this year. We could be in for six more weeks of winter. Never mind the fact that it's been so unseasonably warm that Al Gore started writing the script for his next Oscar-winning documentary called Ha! I Told You So. If Phil says winter will continue then, by golly, it will.
A captivating letter from a former slave to his old master has resurfaced online. The letter is a response from ex-slave, Jourdon Anderson, after his former owner, Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tenn., asked Jourdon to return to his farm to work after more than 30 years of servitude. The must-read letter's expression is cheeky, but clear.
U.S. manufacturing activities expanded at a faster pace in January, according to a closely-watched reading on the health of the sector in a demonstration that manufacturing is starting out the year on a positive note.
On Wednesday, 25 Chinese workers were released from 15 hours of captivity in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. They were kidnapped just yesterday by Bedouin tribesmen, who were demanding the freedom of five relatives. The Chinese workers were returned to their hotel unharmed.
Ten days after Newt Gingrich dealt Mitt Romney a stinging defeat in the South Carolina Republican presidential primary, Romney captured some key voter blocs that had backed Gingrich en route to a decisive win in the Florida primary.
