Two weeks after filing a complaint with the SEC, The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) took another step in a legal battle with Smithfield Foods, one of McDonald's major pork suppliers for products like the McRib.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation that allows firearms owners with concealed weapons permits to carry concealed guns across state lines.
There is controversy over the very existence of the memo.
As Occupy Wall Street enters its third month and its members try to regroup from Tuesday's police raid of Zuccotti Park, Occupy Vermont protesters are suggesting that the movement use the eviction as an opportunity to move into a new phase. But is that the best strategy?
The upper House of Parliament gave its endorsement to the new administration by a vote of 281 to 25.
Cassava is crucial to the health of Africans, providing much-needed carbohydrates for around 200 million people on the continent.
Rice shipments have been stopped from leaving Japan after traces of radioactive Cesium above the safety level were found on the crop for the first time since the Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown.
Google, Facebook, Mozilla, Yahoo, Twitter, eBay, AOL, LinkedIn and Zynga wrote a joint letter to Congress, urging the House of Representatives to prevent the Stop Online Piracy Act from becoming law.
Guildford Shapo was later taken to WS Knobel Hospital where he died.
It was George Orwell who made famous the line, “Big Brother is watching you” when he published ‘’1984” back in 1949. That was in the era of telexes, telegrams and the old AT&T.
Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, an Egyptian activist who is protesting limits on free expression in the country, posted naked photographs of herself online and has incited a national uproar.
New York City's legislative branch is crawling with politicians who are under state and city investigations, accused of various corruption and fraud crimes or allegedly engaged in unethical behavior.
An advertising campaign that depicts President Barack Obama kissing two male world leaders on the mouth drew a critical response from the White House on Thursday.
Canada is worried by reports that delivery of Lockheed Martin Corp's F-35 fighter jets could be delayed and is talking to the manufacturer, Defense Minister Peter MacKay said on Wednesday.
Five things you didn't know about Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
Occupy Las Vegas takes pride in being the Occupy Movement's most friendly gathering - We don't want to chase tourists away.
For over two decades, India has maintained hundreds of thousands of armed forces in this border state where a violent insurgency, partially fueled by training and funds from Pakistan, raged for several years.
On Wednesday, a judge granted Occupy Boston a temporary restraining order to prevent the group from being removed from its encampment in Dewey Square.
Initial jobless claims fell 5,000 to 388,000 for the week ended Nov. 12, a seven-month low, the U.S. Labor Department announced. If the downtrend continues, it would be, arguably, the best news the U.S. economy has registered this year.
The drum beat to limit medical care for the elderly grows louder. President Barack Obama's health law reduces future funding for Medicare by over $500 billion in the next decade and shifts most of those resources to fund a vast expansion of Medicaid. It's like robbing grandma to spread the wealth. To bamboozle the public, advocates for limiting health care spending on the elderly are distorting science to make their case.
China’s millionaires want out. And if Congress is smart, it will lure them to the United States, along with others who aren’t quite so rich.
Before Mitt Romney's term as governor of Massachusetts ended in January 2007, his aides bought their state-issued computers, replaced the hard drives in the office and wiped all e-mails from a server.
U.S. government attorneys have charged BP Exploration Inc. with violating the company's probation originating from a 2009 oil spill in Alaska, the second company spill in three years.
A team of weather scientists have released a 600-page report that predicts an increase in heat waves, heavy downpours and summer droughts in New York.
During a demonstration in Kuwait City on Wednesday night, dozens of protestors forced their way into Parliament to demand the removal of Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser al-Mohammad al-Sabah.
Chinese vice-president Xi Jinping praised Mugabe as an old friend of China.
Dave Bing, the mayor of the city of Detroit, has outlined a financial plan that's turning heads some heads.
One of the individuals, who survived an early morning shootout on Tuesday where the New York Giants seen were partying, was a felon. He was convicted of manslaughter in 2004.
Monti has vowed to reduce debt, while seeking to maintain economic growth and social equity.
The Canadian dollar eased for a fourth straight day against the Canadian dollar on Thursday as surging yields at a Spanish bond auction stoked fears about contagion of the euro zone's debt problems.
