A 34-year-old woman has appeared in court after a video showing a passenger abusing other passenger on a south London tram saying they are not British was posted online.
While President Barack Obama's 43 percent job-approval rating on the poll results Gallup released Tuesday shows an improvement over the 40 percent score he got a few weeks earlier, his shot at winning re-election looks uncertain considering that at this point in his term, even presidential pariah Jimmy Carter did better.
After a year of delays, U.S. prosecutors offered their opening arguments Tuesday in Anchorage at a hearing demanding that BP's probation be revoked.
The Inspector General of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) said in a report released on Tuesday that the regulator did not provide enough oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in mortgage repurchases, executive compensation and other transactions.
“The beauty of using this ‘extremism’ tactic is that you don’t have to attack a popular value that you know most people support,” said Thomas Nelson, an associate professor of political science at Ohio State University.
Most retailers lured shoppers to their online and brick-and-mortar stores this Black Friday and Cyber Monday with ads promising deals that were too good to pass up. Outerwear retailer Patagonia, however, effectively tried to do the opposite.
In a speech at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., on Tuesday, Rick Perry seemed to mix up the voting and drinking ages -- not to mention the date of the coming election. It was a slip of the tongue, not a substantive gaffe -- nobody really thinks Perry doesn't know the voting age -- but it was one of many YouTube-worthy moments of the Republican primary race.
In a speech at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire, Perry encouraged college students Tuesday to vote for him, but only if they are 21 by Nov. 12 of next year. Unfortunately for the Texas governor, the voting age in the United States is 18 and election day is Nov. 6.
Vice President Joe Biden made a surprise visit to Iraq on Tuesday as U.S. troops prepare for a complete withdrawal from the country.
Rep. Barney Frank announced this week that he would not seek reelection to the House in 2012, ending a career of three decades. Here are a few of the most memorable moments the Massachusetts Democrat leaves us with.
Herman Cain, facing new accusations of a 13-year affair, is reassessing whether to stay in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. With growing evidence against him, can Cain salvage his campaign?
After beating a federal corruption rap Nov. 10, a New York State lawmaker was charged again for trading his influence for money.
In Northern Kosovo, ethnic Serbs went to battle with NATO and Kosovo Force peacekeepers
A Manhattan judge has blocked Consolidated Edison from evicting Sharif El-Gamal, the developer of the controversial Park51, which is colloquially known as the Ground Zero Mosque.
Rep. Barney Frank announced this week that he would not seek reelection to the House in 2012, ending a career of three decades. Here are a few of the most memorable moments the Massachusetts Democrat leaves us with.
The Federal Trade Commission announced Tuesday that Facebook will settle over privacy disputes. Commissioned by Alcatel-Lucent, Allison Cerra and Christina James set out in Identity Shift: Where Identity Meets Technology in the Networked-Community Age to understand how users construct their virtual identity and how much information consumers are willing to share with companies online.
The two countries have already significantly downgraded diplomatic and financial ties.
Forty-five percent of U.S. respondents reported that their organization had suffered fraud in the previous 12 months, compared to 35 percent in 2009. Economic pressures, incentives, and opportunities are a significant motivator for economic crime.
The Eurozone finance ministers accept a bailout loan of €8 billion (approximately $10.7 billion) for Greece.
Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich will be stopping in New York's more conservative borough, Staten Island on Saturday. He will be hosting a town hall meeting that is sponsored by the Staten Island Tea Party.
Dr. Donald Berwick, who was praised for his efforts to reform health care by Republicans such as Newt Gingrich long before he was approached by the Obama administration, was attacked for allegedly favoring health care rationing after being nominated for CMS chief by President Obama in 2010.
The aggrieved students of New York City's public university system took to the streets of Manhattan Monday evening to protest tuition hikes many of them say will cripple their ability to afford to earn a college degree.
Following the wave of pro-democracy demonstrations across the Middle East that have led to free and fair elections, Morocco's King Mohammed VI appointed the leader of an Islamist party to be the country's new head of government Tuesday.
Svetlana had fallen in love with Brajesh Singh, an Indian Communist in Moscow. She eventually became his common-law wife in 1964
A government bill to scrap the Canadian Wheat Board's grain marketing monopoly cleared the final stage of approval by Canada's House of Commons on Monday, leaving it all but certain to become law next month.
Barney Frank announced his retirement from Congress this week, effective at the end of his term in 2013. The Democrat from Massachusetts, first elected to the House of Representatives in 1980, stood out more than others in Washington over the years, and his absence will be notable though some think that is a good thing, and others think it's a bad thing.
Just as the sexual harassment allegations against him were beginning to fade, Herman Cain was faced on Monday with a new scandal when a Georgia businesswoman claimed to have had a 13-year affair with him -- and now several news outlets are reporting that he is reassessing whether to stay in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
U.S. housing prices fell in the third quarter ending in September by 3.9 percent, compared to the previous year, according to the Case-Shiller Home Price Index, a larger drop than forecast.
An Australian airliner said a passenger's iPhone 4 started glowing red and smoking before a flight attendant doused the phone with a fire extinguisher.
The salary cap would save more than £1-billion by the 2014-15, Osborne claimed.
