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California Governor Jerry Brown announced on Sunday that he signed a bill preventing local authorities from banning the practice of male circumcision.

Iran said on Saturday that Christian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani was sentenced to death for rape, not for the crime of abandoning Islam.

The Texas governor's 1,070-acre camp in West Texas reportedly had the name N-----head painted in large letters on a rock at its entrance for many years.

On Saturday, anti-Wall Street demonstrators left their home base at Zuccotti Park in downtown Manhattan and marched to the Brooklyn Bridge, where they shut down traffic as they moved from the narrow pedestrian path onto the roadway. Approximately 700 people were arrested.

Nearly 700 Occupy Wall Street protestors were arrested during a march on Saturday in New York City.

Van Jones, who served as President Barack Obama's environmental adviser till Sept. 2009, has said that the progressives are going to launch an October offensive against the Tea Party.

Protesters closed the Brooklyn Bridge in one direction, and police arrested hundreds of people Saturday as the Occupy Wall Street protest entered its third week.

Michele Bachmann has been so focused on her presidential campaign that she has been neglecting some of her duties closer to home, missing 58 percent of House roll call votes since July 1.

After months of denying any possibility that he would run for president in 2012, advisers to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie are actually considering it seriously, an anonymous aide told The New York Times. But he faces an uphill battle.

Canadian opposition legislators mocked Foreign Minister John Baird on Friday after it emerged he had demanded gold-embossed business cards at a time when the government is pushing the need for austerity.

Troy Davis' story caught the attention of thousands around the world, and his funeral service drew 1,000 to the Jonesville Baptist Church in Savannah, Ga., on Saturday.

Nouriel Dr. Doom Roubini, the NYU professor who four years ago accurately predicted the global financial crisis, says tough medicine is needed to end it: another round of massive fiscal stimulus or universal debt restructuring.

Newt Gingrich said on Friday that gay marriage was just a temporary aberration, because marriage has always been between a man and a woman. But since when is it's always been that way a legitimate argument?

By accumulating enough shares, stockholders would have the ammunition to force changes to the company's board.

Illinois officials raised the tax rate in January to deal with the state’s massive budget deficit.

Reportedly, 6,000 foreigners cross the border into Maastricht daily.

The 24 people arrested, comprising 15 women and nine men, spent several hours in a jail in South Boston, but are unlikely to face any serious charges.

His crime is not, as some claim, converting others to Christianity, Rezvani told Fars

NATO captured Haji Mali Khan Tuesday in an operation in Afghanistan in the Jani Khel district in Paktika Province.

Admiral Mike Mullen has accused the Pakistani intelligence agency of having direct links to the Haqqani network.

Moore undermines his positions by his endless hypocrisies.

Between 2006 and 2010, mail volume in the U.S. dropped by 20 percent, from 213 billion pieces to 170 billion. Over that span, the USPS lost $20 billion.

When I told former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson that President Barack Obama used to run three miles per day, he wasn't impressed. I do the equivalent of running 15 miles a day. That's 45 miles biking, said Johnson, an avid triathlete.

European Union (EU) plans to put a charge on carbon emissions from airlines are discriminatory and inconsistent with global laws, a meeting of a UN aviation body and non-EU member nations has agreed, an Indian government statement said on Friday.

For an Indian man, the entire country is one easy-access urinal. Be it mustard fields, the national highway or the Himalayan foothills - unzipping, unleashing and relieving comes naturally to them. Indian women, unfortunately, do not enjoy the same privilege. For them, infinite patience is a survival skill and a big bladder a necessity.

President Barack Obama on Friday hailed the killing of American-born militant Anwar al-Awlaki as a tribute to years of counterterrorism cooperation with Yemen and proof that al Qaeda and its allies will find no safe haven anywhere in the world.

In a letter sent to Congress last Friday, President Barack Obama announced that the United States intends to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan next year. Obama claimed his administration has reversed the Taliban's momentum in the Central Asian country and that there has been improvement in the training of Afghan security forces.

Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical cleric and one of the most influential al-Qaeda operatives wanted by the U.S., was killed Friday in an airstrike in northern Yemen, authorities said

The assassination of radical al-Qaida cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen, has revived a debate about the limits of the Obama administration's authority to hunt and kill terrorists abroad.