During a tele-town hall hosted by Ralph Reed's Faith and Freedom Coalition, GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich said he would consider former Alaska governor Sarah Palin as a vice presidential running mate if he won the Republican primaries.
The United States is debating whether to transfer Mohammed Fazl, a senior Taliban official suspected of various human rights violations, into Afghan custody, in an effort to improve relations with the country
Newt Gingrich teared up at a campaign stop in Iowa on Friday when talking about his mother, who died in 2003.
The U.S. Supreme Court would be barred from hearing cases challenging state laws on privacy, prayer and marriage.
The year 2011 was the year of the protester. What will 2012 bring?
At least 10 people have died in clashes between activists and Syrian forces in the Damascus area, as troops fired nail bombs to disperse throngs of anti-government demonstrators gathered in cities across Syria Friday.
A nuclear-powered Iran poses a grave threat not only to the Jewish state, but to the entire Middle East, warned Israeli defense chief.
Europe's markets closed slightly higher Friday, but ended 2011 with large losses. In 2011 London's FTSE 100 declined 5.6 percent, Germany's DAX fell 14.7 percent, and France's CAC 40 finished the year with a 17 percent decline.
North Korea will not change its stance toward the South.
Each year hundreds of children and adults are kidnapped or reported missing. Kansas City baby Lisa Irwin has been missing for nearly three months following her mysterious disappearance the night of Oct. 4. We took a look at the top strangest missing persons cases in 2011, including Lisa Irwin, Bianca Jones, Ayla Reynolds, Sky Metalwala, Aliayha Lunsford, Jhessye Shockley, Robyn Lynn Gardner, Nathan Barker, Holly Lynn Bobo, Lauren Spierer and Kelly Rothwell.
As immigration rights gain national attention, federal immigration officialshave announced the creation of a free telephone hotline to ensure immigration detainees held by local police are informed of their rights.
Rioting erupted in the poor and largely black neighborhood of Toxteth in Liverpool as an expression of frustration over poverty, economic disadvantages, racism and police brutality.
With a battalion of combat troops headed to South Sudan, is another ethnic conflict beginning in the war torn nation?
A new NBC-Marist poll mirrors a CNN/Time/ORC poll released earlier this week, affirming an 11th-hour picture of the Iowa caucuses in which Mitt Romney and Ron Paul are battling for the win, Rick Santorum has suddenly shed his sidenote status and Newt Gingrich has become virtually irrelevant.
December 29th was Dump GoDaddy Day, and more than 50,000 domains were either transferred away from GoDaddy or deleted outright, with thousands more people doing so in the days leading up to it. One Reddit user, Drov, who asked to be identified by his username only, agreed to speak about what he feels is wrong with SOPA, and why he transferred his domains away from the site.
For many years, Allende’s death has been a mystery.
The truck flipped over after the driver lost control, thereby spilling oil which caught on fire.
The Obama Administration signed an agreement to sell Boeing F-15 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, an agreement proposed by Congress in 2010.
As America begins to put its military pieces back together again after the end to a nine-year campaign in Iraq amid threats from Iran that it may close the Strait of Hormuz, the most vital corridor for oil-tanker traffic in the world, the reality is that another conflict may be looming in the Middle East.
European shares were poised to register their biggest annual drop since 2008 on Friday after a year marred by the Eurozone debt crisis that has threatened to drag down the global economy.
Japan's leading share average ended higher on Friday but marked a 17 percent loss for 2011, a tumultuous year in which massive natural disasters triggered a nuclear crisis and Europe's debt turmoil drained volumes, leaving investors uncertain of a turnaround next year.
For arguably the first time, the new dynamic of online advocacy has stepped into the political realm, targeting Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and his 2012 re-election bid. And an emboldened online community seems deadset on using the blunt force of an Election Day loss to change the Congressman's mind on key legislation.
Despite their objections to the current political system, a Pew survey found that more Americans -- even self-professed Occupy Wall Street supporters -- have a favorable view of capitalism compared to socialism.
Jamaica's opposition People's National Party (PNP) secured an upsetting 41- to 22-seat victory over the Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) in Thursday's general elections, dispelling polls that had claimed the election would have been too close to call.
State Bank of India, the country's largest lender, expects the government to inject capital any time, although it is yet to get a formal commitment on the amount, a senior official said on Friday.
The leader of the Communist Party in Bohemia and Moravia (two regions of several which comprise the Czech Republic) Vojt?ch Filip, is reportedly facing a police investigation, over a letter of condolence sent to North Korea on the occasion of the death of the country's ruler, Kim Jong-il.
The newly-independent country of South Sudan has accused its erstwhile compatriots, Sudan, of killing 17 South Sudanese civilians, in airstrikes aimed at the border state of Bahr el-Ghazal on Thursday.
The Middle East saber-rattling heightened Friday as Iran's Revolutionary Guards fired salvos at the West and claimed the United States could not frighten them out of blocking the strategic Strait of Hormuz.
Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann has lost a second top campaign staffer in another setback before the Iowa caucuses next week, NBC News reported Thursday.
North Korea's first official communication with the outside world following the death of leader Kim Jong-il and the transition of power to his son was a somber warning to South Korea and its allies that it would not change policies.
