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The American Civil Liberties Union Thursday filed a class action suit to block South Carolina's anti-immigration law from going into effect next year, arguing that the law is unconstitutional and will lead to the detention of Hispanics. The U.S. Department of Justice is reviewing South Carolina's law, slated to go into effect Jan. 1.

They lowered their 2012 GDP forecast to 0.8 percent from their previous estimate of 2 percent, partially due to the spiraling debt crisis in the Eurozone.

President Barack Obama has pledged to continue to fight for Congressional action on his $447 billion jobs bill, even if parts of it have to be eliminated to attract Congressional Republican votes.

All told, BP and its partners will invest nearly £10 billion ($15.7 billion) in North Sea oil and gas properties over the next five years.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposes river space, acres for endangered fish.

Nineteen people in Poland were arrested on suspicion of providing explosives and bomb-making material to Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian terrorist who killed 77 people in Oslo in July. The arrests included 12 people from a Poznan-based company that sold explosive fuses over the Internet.

New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg visited Occupy Wall Street's encampment for the first time on Wednesday night to deliver a message: we need to clean the park.

There were no foreign dignitaries invited to the wedding, only members of the royal family and government officials.

Former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain' s star has been rising, primarily due to his unconventional tax plan, and a new poll by The Wall Street Journal/NBC found that he has taken the lead for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination away from former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

As for Cain, he has handled the slings and arrows thrust upon him with humor, charm and aplomb.

The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on the controversial 'Protect Life Act' on Thursday, legislation aimed at keeping every cent of federal money from funding abortion services.

Celebratory bursts of gunfire and fireworks lit up the skies over Tripoli early Thursday as word spread that Libyan government fighters had captured Moammar Gadhafi's son Mo'tassim in Sirte.

U.S regulators announced at a House of Representatives hearing on Wednesday that they will now back off on junk food marketing guidelines put forth by the government earlier this year. The final guidelines would now restrict food ads to be targeted only at children under 12 years and not 17 as proposed earlier.

Libyan government fighters captured Moammar Gadhafi's son Mo'tassim in Sirte Wednesday after he tried to escape the battle-torn city in a car, the National Transitional Council said.

New Hampshire is considering moving up its Republican primary to as early as Dec. 6 as states vie for more influence in picking the party's nominee for the 2012 presidential election, a senior state official said Wednesday.

A security video shows Lisa Irwin’s mother, Deborah Bradley, shopping with an unidentified man hours before baby Lisa went missing. Bradley, accompanied by a mystery man wearing a dark shirt and blue jeans, walked through Festival Foods at about 5 p.m. on Oct. 3. The release of the security video follows the addition of Bill Stanton, a New York-based security consultant, to the search for baby Lisa. Bill Stanton, known as celebrity private investigator “Wild Bill,” claims he will be conducting ...

Concerned about voter angst over California's finances, lawmakers say they may need to overhaul a ballot measure that would provide $11.1 billion for a slew of long-awaited water projects.

Though other Republican candidates criticized Herman Cain's 9-9-9 tax plan during Tuesday evening's Republican presidential debate, Michele Bachmann came out with the most controversial dismissal of the plan when she said it could be the devil's work.

Matthew Shepard still remembered 13 years after his death.

As Harrisburg, Pa. struggles to deal with massive debts, citizens and politicians oppose the bankruptcy filing, calling it illegal. Will it be dismissed?

Herman Cain is ahead of Mitt Romney in several recent polls. But can he sustain that lead, or is he just another candidate du jour? Political experts say a Cain nomination is unlikely.

Occupy Wall Street, the four-week-old protest movement against the excesses of corporate America, has now taken root 7,000 miles away in Seoul, South Korea.

China has launched an intense lobbying effort in Washington to kill legislation that would punish it for its currency system, in the latest display of its more sophisticated approach to influence U.S. policy.

Alberta's new premier, Alison Redford, has named her first cabinet, appointing a handful of former leadership rivals to key posts in Canada's largest energy-producing province.

Iranian student Peyman Aref was lashed 74 times on Sunday, the same day he was freed from a one year prison sentenced.

The buzz word was definitely “9-9-9? in Tuesday’s Republican debate at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire that focused on economic issues.

The numbers are in, and Herman Cain's new book is a national bestseller. Now, Cain said the book tour is over and he is committing to more aggressive campaigning and campaign spending.

U.S. officials indicated that the Iranian operatives as well as members of Hezbollah were transported across the Middle East by Mahan.

If Rick Perry is going to win the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, he'll have to do it based on something other than his debate performances.