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So far, the dispensers of global financial justice -- the bond vigilantes -- have given the U.S. a pass on the budget deficit issue. But that can’t last forever, which is why it behooves Democrats and Republicans to reach agreement on a budget deficit reduction package now, starting with a super committee agreement.

George Harrison inadvertently became the greatest promoter of Indian culture and Hinduism to the Western world during the 20th century.

A study analyzing the first three years of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative predicts the program will add more than $1.6 billion in economic value to the 10 participating states while encouraging the development of clean energy sources.

The eviction of the protesters from Zuccotti Park Monday night resembled a host body convulsively rejecting an unwanted implant. Occupy Wall Street lambasts, rightly, many social and economic ills. But is it native to its home base?

With Herman Cain's fall, Newt Gingrich is up to bat as the latest conservative alternative to Mitt Romney. Where does the former speaker of the House stand on the issues?

The vicious remark by a Republican student leader at the University of Texas, on Twitter, was met with scathing criticism on Wednesday. Hours after the police arrested a 21-year-old Idaho man for firing a rifle at the White House, Lauren Pierce tweeted that the idea of assassinating the U.S. President was tempting.

President Barack Obama said Thursday the U.S. military will expand its role in the Asia-Pacific region despite budget cuts, declaring America was here to stay as a Pacific power which would help shape the region's future.

Oscar Ortega-Hernandez, the 21-year-old suspect in Friday's gunfire near White House was obsessed with American President Barak Obama, officials said.

Panning across all nationalities and ethnic groups, immigrants to the U.S. are assimilating into American life, at higher rates than their predecessors. The overall progress of the people who immigrated to the U.S. in the 1990s shows that various aspects like home ownership and higher education are set to grow from 2000 to 2030 despite their current financial setback due to the economic meltdown.

A total of 15 unions are now backing the strike against the government’s proposal to make public sector workers pay more and work longer to earn their pensions.

Italian clothing firm, Benetton, has withdrawn its latest ad campaign featuring an image of Pope Benedict XVI kissing an eminent Egyptian Imam on the lips, due to the Vatican's hot protests.

The Occupy protests have spread far beyond New York City. As a sweep of arrests and police raids force evacuations of Occupy sites and the original OWS at Zuccotti Park, look back on some of the beautiful poster art evoking the different messages of the movement, which now spans 11 countries and has camps in over a dozen states.

The United States Air Force has received the delivery of the first batch of a massive 30,000 pound bunker-buster bomb dubbed as the Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP).

Lindsey Miller, a 26-year old suffering from pancreatic neuroendocrine cancer, asked Joseph Gordon-Levitt out on a date by posting a video on her blog.

LaVar Arrington, a former NFL and Penn State linebacker, has spoken out against Jerry Sandusky in the Penn State Scandal. The two-time All-American star from Penn State initially refused to comment on the allegations against former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky. However, following Sandusky's interview with Bob Costas, Arrington angrily responds in defense of his alma mater.

Pfizer Inc won expert backing for using its blockbuster vaccine in adults to fight pneumonia, meningitis and other diseases caused by pneumococcus bacteria.

San Francisco police raided part of the Occupy SF camp, removing 15 tents in front of Market Street and arresting 7 protesters on early Wednesday morning.

U.S. House Judiciary Committee held its first hearing on a controversial bill aimed at stopping online piracy.

Occupy Wall Street protester Randy Credico is one of the estimated 200 protesters who were arrested as part of the NYPD's early Tuesday morning raid of the movement's encampment in Manhattan's Zuccotti Park.

The call awoke Mustafa Sav after 1 a.m. Tuesday morning. It was from his building manager, Alan Scott. He explained something Sav had already expected -- police had evicted Occupy Wall Street protestors from Zuccotti Park.

Facebook has come under fire in recent weeks over claims that the company violates users' privacy by publicizing too much of individual's personal information. Facebook engineering director Arturo Bejar explains how cookies are used to track members and non-members' information even after they've logged out of the site.

The head of the International Monetary Fund's Europe department resigned suddenly on Wednesday, a year after taking on the crucial role, leaving the fund at a critical time as it grapples with the European financial crisis.

Penn State has named David M. Joyner acting athletic director, effective immediately, in the wake of allegations against Jerry Sandusky sexually assaulting eight underage boys. Joyner has been a member of the Board of Trustees for over 10 years. Mark Sherbune will return to his role as associate athletic director.

A list of compensation packages given to previous Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac CEOs during the past decade or so was released in a report produced by the House Oversight and Government Reform committee.

Oscar Ortega-Hernandez, a 21-year-old man from Idaho, was arrested Wednesday after he was suspected for firing a shot from a semiautomatic rifle at the White House on Friday evening.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) turns 10 on Saturday and many will reflect on what has changed in the past 10 years and what needs to change in the administration's pre-teen years.

Occupy London protestors were given 24 hours to vacate their camp outside of St. Paul's Cathedral on Wednesday afternoon, one day after the midnight eviction of the Occupy Wall Street protestors in New York.

The number of honor killings in India is unknown since many of these deaths are masqueraded as “suicides” or “accidents.

New York City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez has cuts on his face and hand, but he is out of jail, and is spreading the harrowing tale of his violent arrest early Tuesday morning during the police raid of the Occupy Wall Street encampment at Manhattan's Zuccotti Park.