California Nurses Association to strike on Thursday.
Rick Santorum asks Google to fix search results.
Rep. Ron Paul had positive things to say about Jon Stewart and The Daily Show during a breakfast event sponsored by The Christian Science Monitor.
Border Patrol has abused detainees, immigrant group alleges.
In an interview with Newsmax, a conservative news magazine, former President Bill Clinton told founder and CEO Christopher Ruddy that Obama’s approach to tackling the deficit was “a little confusing,” and said that President Obama should not increase taxes in this economy.
A Denver-based natural gas company has sued a small town in New York state over its ban on natural gas drilling, a case that may set a precedent on how local governments in the Empire State can regulate the controversial process known as fracking.
Is the United States capable of tax reform? U.S. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., thinks so. Still, U.S. tax code revisions are arduous because they go to the core of the United States -- commerce -- and a tax code alteration can result in a change to a company's or group's slice of the economic pie.
U.S. District Judge Ellen S. Huvelle set Feb. 13 as the date when trial will start on the U.S. Justice Department’s case against the $39 billion takeover of T-Mobile by AT&T.
Stocks plunged late Wednesday after the Federal Reserve announced it will sell $400 billion worth of short-maturity bonds and reinvest in bonds with maturities of six to 30 years in the coming year. The program has been commonly referred to as Operation Twist.
On Tuesday, the bodies of 23 men and 12 women were left on a highway at rush hour. They dead bodies showed signs of torture. The murders are considered the latest casualties in the Mexico's ongoing drug war.
Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer were released from an Iranian prison on Wednesday.
Poll shows that President Obama leads Sarah Palin by five points in new poll.
A last-ditch appeal on behalf of death row inmate Troy Davis was rejected on Wednesday, making it all but certain that Davis would be executed. Davis, 42, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at 7 p.m. EDT on Wednesday.
Twitter executives announced that they will start selling political advertisements, seeking for the first time to profit off of the social media tool's role as a forum for political activity and debate.
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt began testifying before a U.S. Judiciary Subcommittee Wednesday over the company's business practices, striking a conciliatory tone with skeptical lawmakers.
Lawrence Russell Brewer to be executed for death of James Byrd Jr.
As of Jan. 1, 2011, there were 3,251 total prisoners on death row in the U.S., but the number of executions per year has been declining over the past decade. Despite the decline, the United States still executes the fourth most people of any country in the world.
Davis was tried and convicted for the 1989 murder of Mark MacPhail, a police officer in Savannah, Ga.
The internet community has accused Yahoo of censoring email messages on Occupy Wall Street protests, after numerous videos were posted on YouTube by Yahoo users demonstrating the censoring.
Conservatives and Tea Party groups have found themselves in the unlikely position of agreeing with liberals on immigration as they rally against a bill that would impose mandatory background checks to ensure new hires are eligible to work in the United States.
President Barack Obama will meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday to urge him to drop plans to ask the U.N. Security Council to recognize a Palestinian state despite U.S. and Israeli objections.
While the turnout was much smaller than the number anticipated to participate, Occupy Wall Street, a leaderless resistance movement, is now calling those in Northern California to participate in the growing occupation in San Francisco, now that the financial district in lower Manhattan is being disrupted by fervent protesters.
In a speech to the U.N. General Assembly, President Barack Obama said the Palestinian people deserve a state of their own, but this goal can only be achieved via direct talks with Israel.
The crowded streets of every major West Bank city indicates that many Palestinians are throwing their support behind the initiative.
More U.S. women are drinking booze and becoming alcoholics, according to a study by Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. About one-fifth of women have at least three drinks per day, versus a figure of about 42 percent for men.
Multiple Republican-led states have passed new election laws that severely hamper certain groups' ability to vote, a move that many Democrats see as a move to weaken their base ahead of the 2012 presidential election.
Legendary singer Tony Bennett has been sweeping headlines, not for the release of his new album, but instead for comments criticizing America's foreign policy, which he has since apologized for.
Solyndra executives will invoke their Fifth Amendment rights Friday when they refuse to answer questions at a Congressional hearing investigating allegations of improper dealings between the failed solar company and the White House.
The Obama administration is constructing a network of drone strike bases in Africa and the Arabian peninsula as its broadening campaign against Al Qaeda affiliates reaches increasingly into Yemen and Somalia.
Many if not most Americans probably concluded that after barely avoiding a spring U.S. Government shutdown, Democrats and Republicans would end their feud. Not quite: a partisan spat on Hurricane Irene could result in a government shutdown on Oct.1 , if an agreement is not reached.
