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Twenty-eight percent of Republicans backed the former Massachusetts governor, giving him a lead of 8 percentage points over his nearest challenger, Herman Cain, in the poll, taken Nov, 10-11.

GOP Presidential nominee Michele Bachmann claims she has proof that the CBS News/National Journal debate Saturday was biased against her. Late Saturday, Bachmann's campaign accused CBS News of purposely suppressing [their] conservative message and limiting Michele's questions.

As the Penn State abuse scandal deepens, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett has called on legislators to change state laws regarding child sexual abuse.

GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann on Sunday told NBC's Meet the Press that if any of her children had been abused by former Penn State Assistant Football Coach Jerry Sandusky, she would beat him to a pulp.

At a summit expected to produce at least the new outline of free trade agreements with key Asian markets, Middle East geopolitics took center-stage, at least initially, as the United States and Russia reaffirmed their intention to work and shape a common response regarding Iran's nuclear program.

The Occupy Wall Street protest movement has had a major negative impact on the livelihoods of local business owners, costing them nearly $500,000 so far.

Saturday Night Live poked fun at the GOP presidential hopefuls last weekend in the show's opening sketch, with the issues facing Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Herman Cain at the center of the skit.

The Oregon city was inundated with protesters Saturday night, and police decided to move in, riding horses through the crowd, arresting protesters and deploying what appeared to be tear gas or pepper spray, amateur videos showed.

Jay-Z may have once had a hard knock life, but he’s no longer one of the 99 percent, says the Occupy Wall Street movement, whose spokesman called him a “bloodsucker,” according to NME.com.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is seeking to speed up reform of the European Union treaty, and she wants all 27 European Union member states to give their approval by the end of next year, government sources said Sunday.

Asia-Pacific leaders will call on countries on Sunday to do what they can to bolster economic growth, rallying around the common threat from Europe's debt crisis despite divisions over trade and currency policies.

A haircut of Greek debt is unnecessary and harmful for Greece and the Eurozone, and it has stoked wider concerns about future bond impairment in other member states, European Central Bank Governing Council member Athanasios Orphanides said in a newspaper interview Sunday.

Italy's head of state begins talks Sunday to appoint an emergency government to succeed outgoing Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and handle a crisis that has brought the Eurozone's third-largest economy to the brink of financial disaster.

Gloria Cain, wife of Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, has reportedly agreed to sit down this weekend with Greta Van Susteren of Fox News for a television segment that will likely air Monday, according to The New York Times.

Republican presidential candidates said on Saturday they would stop Iran from developing an atomic bomb.

The mysterious circumstances surrounding former District Attorney Ray Gricar's disappearance in 2005 have gained attention in light of the Penn State child abuse scandal. Gricar was an esteemed district attorney of Centre County and surprisingly decided not to prosecute Jerry Sandusky in 1998. Then, six years later in 2005, Gricar went missing.

Only Italy could produce a leader like Berlusconi.

President Barack Obama used an Asia-Pacific summit on Saturday to push back against China's trade practices, insisting Beijing stop poaching U.S. intellectual property and allow its currency to rise.

18-year-old Texas teenager, Ashley Billasano, posted 144 tweets in six hours Tuesday detailing her sexual abuse before committing suicide.

Jerry Sandusky's wife, Dorothy 'Dottie' Gross Sandusky, has been largely absent in light of the developing Penn State child abuse scandal, in which her husband, the former defensive coordinator, is the primary focus. Very little is known about Dottie, though onlookers have questioned, if the allegations against Sandusky are true, how could she have been unaware of her husband's involvement with young boys? If she knew, many ask, how could she allow it to go on, and for so long?

According to Herman Cain, the Occupy Wall Street movement isn't just a conspiracy to distract voters from President Obama's policies -- it isn't a movement at all. Perhaps he should check a dictionary.

Do you know how many rooms are in the White House? Not much is known about the Washington D.C. mansion that has housed some of the most glorious leaders this world has ever seen. Here are 15 fun facts about the White House that you might not have known before today.

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is expected to resign, perhaps as early as Saturday evening, thereby ending a wild and tumultuous political career.

All efforts to make contact with the mission have apparently failed.

Video of Syrian Protests capture the true nature of the Assad's brutality better than any news report.

Kazakhstan, an oil- and gas-rich nation of about 16 million people wedged between China and Russia, has witnessed a number of attacks this year.

Almost nine months after a devastating earthquake-tsunami crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the facility in Japan has been opened to members of the media.

The Russia World Trade Organization (WTO) accession took a big step forward on Thursday. The WTO Working Party on Russia’s accession approved the package detailing Russia’s entry into the international organization.

The lower house of the Italian parliament passed an austerity package on Saturday, paving the way for three-time Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to resign from office.