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Senate Republicans and Democrats rejected each other's economic stimulus bills on Thursday, underscoring their inability to craft a bipartisan solution on job creation before next year's elections.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and top U.S. military and intelligence leaders delivered a tough warning to Pakistan on Thursday to cut suspected ties with militant groups which have upset relations between the uneasy allies.

Muammar Gaddafi was killed after being captured by the Libyan fighters he once scorned as rats, cornered and shot in the head after they overran his last bastion of resistance in his hometown of Sirte.

Eight months of civil war in Libya ended Thursday with the brutal death of Col. Moammar Gadaffi. With him, ends 42 years of bizarre era of brutality and dictatorship.

Born in a desert near Sirte in 1942, Muammar Gaddafi, the mercurial and eccentric strongman, was the longest-serving leader in both Africa and the Arab world, having ruled Libya since he toppled King Idris I in a coup at the age of 27.

Graphic video footage and photographs of Col. Moammar Gadhafi, executed by a mob of rebel soldiers near his home town of Sirte, shows the magnitude of humiliation the Libyan dictator suffered in his final moments.

While 2011 marks the death of two notorious terrorists, Osama bin Laden and Moammar Gadhafi, it is still unclear how President Obama's involvement in these events will affect his re-election in 2012.

Moammar Gadhafi was killed by the Libyans he once scorned as rats. He succumbed to wounds, some seemingly inflicted after his capture by fighters who overran his last redoubt on Thursday in his hometown of Sirte.

The four-decade rule of autocratic ruler, Moammar Gadhafi finally came to an end on Thursday after he was dragged from his hiding place in a drain in Sirte and killed.

The Red Cross reports that they are still finding mass grave sites from the Libyan dictator's reign, with dead bodies buried or burned near warehouses, hospitals, and roadsides. Over 13 mass grave sites have been uncovered since Gadhafi was ousted from power, including the remains of some 1,200 political prisoners from the Abu Salim massacre in 1996. [WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES]

President Barack Obama on Thursday nominated a prominent critic of large banks for a key banking industry regulatory post.

The relatives of victims of Pan Am Flight 103 said in a statement Thursday that Moammar Gadhafi's death marks a great day for Libya and freedom, but added that their fight for justice continues on a bittersweet day.

As Libyans flood the streets waving flags and automatic weapons, world leaders like President Obama, David Cameron, and the Vatican expressed hope for Libya's future and urged Libyans to focus on rebuilding a nation torn by civil war. Venezuelan Hugo Chavez, a long-time ally of Gadhafi, condemned the Libyan leader's death. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, meanwhile, has remained silent on the result of what he deemed a call to crusades by Western leaders.

The U.S. Senate, on a bipartisan vote of 74-26 on Thursday, confirmed former energy company executive John Bryson as commerce secretary, despite the objection of some Republicans due to his background as an environmentalist.

U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday said now that Moammar Gadhafi is dead, Libya has an opportunity to determine its own destiny. The Libyan government announced Gadhafi's death on Thursday after the ousted dictator was killed in what the interim Prime Minister said was crossfire between transitional government troops and those loyal to Gadhafi.

Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi's death has incited massive reaction, including on social media platforms such as Twitter. Some have been witty about him being killed; others have criticized it, including the joy and happiness brought forth. Even celebrities chimed in.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who had just returned from chemotherapy treatments in Cuba after being diagnosed with cancer, was a close friend and colleague of Moammar Gadhafi. He has defended the Libyan leader since the start of the uprisings in February, and accused NATO of starting a people's revolution to access Libya's oil.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Thursday picked a Joseph Lhota, an executive at Madison Square Garden and a former top aide to Mayor Rudy Giuliani, to run one of the biggest transportation agencies in the world.

The United States, in perhaps its strongest language since the war on terrorism started 10 years ago, warned Pakistan that it would face serious consequences if it continued to tolerate safe havens for extremist organizations that kill Americans.

The president of the U.S., Barack Obama, delivered the following speech on the death of Moammar Gaddafi this afternoon from the White House.

Rick Santorum, a 2012 candidate for the Republican Party nomination for U.S. president, said he would eliminate federal funding for birth control if he were president, because sex should only be for procreation. Does he live in this world?

Moammar Gadhafi was killed in Sirte, Libya on Thursday, but Libya's National Transitional Council has a long way to go before the country is healed.

We face a historic opportunity to obtain a just and democratic solution to the age-old political conflict, ETA said in the statement.

The Libyan fighter who captured Moammar Gadhafi on Thursday, Mohammed El Bibi, was wearing a New York Yankees cap, according to multiple reports.

A Tea Party Nation blogger has called on small businesses to cease hiring in order to protest the Obama administration and its progressive socialist agenda.

A U.S. Predator drone, along with a French fighter jet, fired on the convoy said to be carrying Moammar Gadhafi mere moments before his death, a U.S. defense official said Thursday.

Bangalore thus becomes the first city in the south of India to have a mass rail transit system.

GOP primary candidate Ron Paul is the first to launch a series of harsh campaign ads in early voting states, spending over $2 million dollars for ads in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina. But will it be enough to raise Paul's chances, as the libertarian firebrand continues to lag behind Mitt Romney, Herman Cain and Rick Perry? Or will they be just enough to keep his presence in the debates?

The President spoke from the town of La Fria in southwestern Venezuela dressed in military fatigues.