A federal appeals court threw out a conviction against former New York State Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno, but allowed prosecutors to get another chance at the powerful politician.
The United Federation of Teachers has failed at its attempt to block the Department of Education from allowing the public to view of over 12,000 teachers' evaluations. The union will now file for an appeal at the highest court in state, The New York State Court of Appeals
The Federal Housing Admistration said in its annual financial report that its cash reserves had fallen to $2.6 billion, down from $4.7, intensifying the likelihood of a taxpayer bailout.
Energy Secretary Steven Chu has said it may take similar skills to navigate Washington politics as it does to make advances in physics research, a field in which he won a Nobel Prize in 1997.
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to hear arguments on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, 47 percent of Americans said they support repealing the law, versus 42 percent who favor upholding it.
No clear cut deal appears on the horizon, as the budget deficit super committee's Nov. 23 deadline draws near. The group of 12 lawmakers has, by some accounts, resorted to the old accounting tricks used to paint deceptively rosy pictures in past debates.
Eighteen school children were killed in China when an overloaded school bus collided with a truck in Gansu province.
Ghana will raise spending by over 12 percent to tackle poverty in a 2012 election year but will keep finances in check with higher state revenues, President John Atta Mills' government pledged in a budget on Wednesday.
The Paris Club of creditor nations said members agreed on Tuesday to reduce the Ivory Coast's foreign debt burden and said reforms underway should lead to further relief.
Libya has told Egyptians they will need visas to enter the country, Egypt's state news agency said on Wednesday, after Egypt imposed travel restrictions on Libyans during the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi.
Libya's wartime rebel prime minister said his country faces a lengthy and dangerous power vacuum where foreign powers may exploit rival militias on the streets and he called for a dramatic acceleration in plans for full elections.
Guinea's president declared late on Tuesday that the date for landmark parliamentary elections should only be set once there is agreement among rival parties on the timing, defusing a row that has already sparked deadly clashes.
A budget crunch in Swaziland, Africa's last absolute monarchy, has reached a critical stage with the government struggling to maintain spending on HIV/AIDS, education and the elderly, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday.
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe won praise on Wednesday as a great African figure and old friend of Beijing, underscoring China's commitment to boosting business ties to a leader shunned by Western governments.
Given the increasing presence of women in high levels of politics around the world, I am wondering what the “standard protocol” for such greetings should be?
Newt Gingrich earned between $1.6 million and $1.8 million as a consultant for the government-sponsored mortgage company Freddie Mac, far more than the $300,000 contract he disclosed in a recent debate, according to a Bloomberg News investigation. The advice he reportedly gave them contradicts his recent criticisms of the company.
The economically insecure country of Portugal is seeking investment from its former colony, Angola.
Republican state Sen. Gerald Dial told The Birmingham News that lawmakers 'made some mistakes' when crafting the state's notoriously strict immigration law.
The newspaper Corriere Della Serra described the new cabinet as being composed only of experts, no politicians.
The Secret Service said Wednesday that a bullet had been found that struck a White House window from a shot authorities believe was fired five days ago, and they continue to seek a man wanted in connection with the incident. The bullet was stopped by ballistic glass.
Generic drugs would have an easier path to U.S. markets under a bill due to be introduced in the Senate, said Democratic Senator Jeff Bingaman, a sponsor of the bill.
British Gas, along with some other dominant UK utilities, promised not to raise prices this winter.
TransCanada Corp is committed to building the $7 billion Keystone XL project despite a 12-to-18-month delay in U.S. approvals, the company's chief executive said on Wednesday.
Defectors from the Syrian army attacked a military checkpoint in the Hama province on Tuesday night, killing at least eight soldiers and security troops
Supporters of the Canadian Wheat Board took their protest to Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, in a last-ditch effort to sway legislators to keep the world's last major agricultural monopoly.
Interestingly, overall unemployment among females -- now at 1.09 million -- is at a 23-year high.
With a banking sector that seemingly cycles from reticence to lend, lending at prohibitive interest rates, and outright banker-to-banker mistrust (the latest round of which is being driven by renewed concern about Italy's debt), is today's U.S. banking sector where Framer/Founding Father Alexander Hamilton wanted it to be?
Newt Gingrich is the latest of the anti-Romneys: the constantly churning field of candidates who, for a few days or weeks, are trumpeted as the definitive conservative challenger to Mitt Romney before falling back into the abyss. But can he maintain his lead where others didn't?
The European Central Bank stepped in to stem an accelerating selloff of euro zone government bonds on Wednesday, traders said, after the United States called for more decisive action to halt the spreading sovereign debt crisis.
Xun Wang, the ex-managing director of a U.S. company's Chinese subsidiary, pleaded guilty to conspiring to export material to Pakistan for use in a nuclear reactor.
