Suspected suicide attackers launched an assault near a base used by NATO-led forces in the western Afghan province of Herat Thursday, authorities said, and gunfire was still being heard although there was no immediate word on casualties.
Protesters shut down operations at Oakland's port and blocked traffic Wednesday in demonstrations against economic inequality and police brutality that were marred by scattered vandalism.
Nearly 15,000 people in the U.S. die from overdoses involving prescription painkillers annually. The new report by the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) noted that the trend has reached epidemic proportions but could be controlled. The extent of the damage is that non-medical use of prescription painkillers costs health insurers up to $72.5 billion annually in direct health care costs.
A third woman has reportedly accused leading Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain of inappropriate behavior in the workplace.
Missing baby Lisa Irwin's parents, Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin, continue to maintain that baby Lisa disappeared from their home nearly a month ago. Not only are police stumped by what really happened to missing 11-month-old baby Lisa Irwin, but the media and the public have become increasingly confused by the events that have unraveled this month. Take a look at this timeline to see what really happened this past month in an effort to find missing baby Lisa Irwin.
The leaders of the world's major economies will meet in Cannes, France starting Thursday to discuss matters critical to commerce, international trade, and the global economy. That means the discussion will be dominated by Greece.
Cannes, the beach resort in the south of France, is the ideal locale for the G-20 economic summit.
Occupy Tulsa protestors were arrested and some were pepper sprayed.
Former CEO Herman Cain is now saying that the campaign of one of his primary opponents, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, is responsible for leaking the old sexual harassment allegations that were the subject of an explosive Politico article on Sunday.
Beginning at 9am, Occupy protestors gathered at the Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland on Wednesday. Around downtown and City Hall, traffic was blocked and ATMs were defaced in anger as the crowd marched through the branches of major banks.
Condoleezza Rice book No Higher Honor released on Nov. 1.
Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry was not drunk during his now-infamous speech in New Hampshire over the weekend before Cornerstone Action, a conservative group, according to the group's executive director Kevin Smith, The Hill reports.
German drug maker Boehringer Ingelheim is defending its blood-thinner Pradaxa in the wake of reports that as many as 50 people have died because of the drug. Any blood thinning medication is potentially dangerous, but Pradaxa is under incresed scrutiny for several reasons.
A lot of parents keep their under-aged kids off Facebook, but some still encourage and help their 12-year-olds create accounts. A new study surveying parents found that more than half (55 percent) of them were aware of their 12-year-old's accounts.
A new report from Essex County reveals instructors urging LGBT students targeted by bullies to combat the abuse by acting less gay. Information packets and conferences are being put in place to educate new instructors, but activists say victim-blaming, not ignorance, is the motivating factor behind the teachers' shocking advice.
Johnson & Johnson is the target of new analysis from the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, which released a second report detailing two cancer-causing chemicals found in Johnson & Johnson's popular baby shampoo.
Forbes released its list of the 70 most powerful people in the world, with the leaders of the U.S., Russia and China topping the list.
In God We Trust was officially reaffirmed as the official national motto of the United States on Wednesday by the House of Representatives. Why did the Republicans bring this vote up now, and was it a good idea?
He added that Europeans who donate money to PKK share in the responsibility for the killings of innocent civilians.
A third woman has come forward to accuse Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain of sexually harassing her while he was at the helm of the National Restaurant Association, according to an Associated Press report released late Wednesday afternoon.
Coulter stuck by her controversial remarks defending Herman Cain on The Sean Hannity show, telling Joy Behar last night that the statement our blacks are better than their blacks is both true and devoid of racism. Coulter has outraged Democrats and Republicans alike in the past, linking Occupy Wall Street to Nazism and telling gay conservatives they had no right to marry, but her remarks to Hannity is hurting the candidate she so vehemently defends.
Somali rebel group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for an attack on a Kenyan military convoy on Tuesday, but Kenya is downplaying the size of the attack.
As international pressure mounts on Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou to drop his bid to put the deal before the Greek people for a referendum vote, and instead immediately accept its terms as drafted, Greek-American New Yorkers are once again shocked at the intransigence of their home country's leadership.
President Obama saw his popularity increase in the latest Quinnipiac University national poll released Tuesday.
The common wisdom is that next year's election will be a referendum on President Barack Obama, but it could actually be the vice presidential candidates who decide the outcome, according to a Suffolk University poll of Florida voters.
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said on Wednesday that his opponents are trying to destroy me over allegations of sexual harassment that have rocked his 2012 bid.
In the most recent developments in the Occupy Wall Street Movement, veterans took to the streets to march in solidarity with the Occupiers, while across the country, Occupy Oakland plans a major strike that could shut down the city.
A boat full of more than 70 asylum seekers headed for Australia capsized off the coast of the island of Java on Tuesday, drowning at least eight people, including three children.
The Department of Homeland Security placed PSAs on Hotel TVs across America on Nov. 1, part of its ongoing campaign If you see something, say something.
Even more galling for Papandreou, six other members of his own Pasok party have called for his resignation.
