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On a Friday night in August, a posse of teenagers stormed into the Exxon Tiger Mart on the I-20 highway. At first, they simply used their power in numbers to walk in and then walk out with hands full of goods, but when store clerk C.J. Thomas tried to stop a looter, the mob turned violent.

After the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States, it was often heard that terrorists hate freedom. Why was this term used? Looking back ten years later, the facts remain that Osama bin Laden, did, in a theoretical sense, hate American liberties.

Republicans vying for GOP nomination wasted no time in criticizing President Barack Obama's jobs speech, and they weren't bashful.

Investigators must wait for the magnetic data recordings to dry before they can begin to piece together the events that led to the deaths of the members of Russia's Lokomotiv Yaroslavl ice hockey team on Wednesday.

In statements issued after President Obama's jobs speech on Thursday night, Republican leaders struck a note very different from the uncompromising, line-in-the-sand rhetoric that has been dominating political discourse. Criticisms of Obama and fundamental differences of opinion were still evident, but there were also gestures toward conciliation and compromise.

The United States has killed the mastermind of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack, Osama bin Laden. But in engaging in two costly wars, did the U.S. do much of what bin Laden wanted the U.S. to do?

First responders are aghast at not being invited to attend the World Trade Center memorial ceremony on Sunday, September 11, 2011.

It's an underground prison in the compound of the presidential palace.

On Sept. 11, 2001, I was 11 years old. I can't say when exactly I realized how young that was to understand the enormity of the attacks. But 10 years removed, I see it. For me, the world isn't divided into before and after the attacks, because there is no before.

Originally viewed in the 1970s as a project that added too much office space to Lower Manhattan, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center became a symbol not only for New York, but for the United States, for capitalism, for the cosmopolitan / urban life, for modernity itself.

Obama laid out an ambitious $450 billion package of spending plans and tax cuts designed to stimulate the economy and create badly needed jobs.

President Barack Obama made a savvy play with his jobs speech proposal, if one considers his personal political hide. America's unemployment problem has gone on too long, and the nation is looking to Washington, and the president, to do something about it. So he drew up a economic plan that has a big price tag -- $447 billion -- urging Republicans and Congress to act immediately on it.

A report on the other relevant cases of patient information breach that took place in the U.S. in the recent past.

Sonia Gandhi, leader of Congress party, returned home on Thursday after more than a month of medical treatment in the United States which had left the government rudderless to deal with the biggest protests in decades

Though Ron Paul seems to have contributed the most to last night's Republican presidential debate, Rick Perry is dominating the headlines for his supposedly inept remark identifying himself as modern day Galileo. Famous for his skepticism of climate change, the Texas Governor observed, The science is not settled on this (climate change). The idea that we would put Americans' economy at jeopardy based on scientific theory that's not settled yet to me is just nonsense. Just because yo...

Being politically connected isn't what it used to be for corporate India.

The FBI conducted a dramatic raid today on a California solar company, Solyndra, that received a loan of $527 million from the Federal Financing Bank (FFB), a subsidiary of the U.S. Treasury. The FBI raid followed the filing of Solyndra’s bankruptcy yesterday.

President Barack Obama presented a $447-billion plan for boosting jobs on Thursday before a rare joint session of the Congress and urged the Republicans to take urgent action to pass his plan leaving aside political differences.

President Barack Obama proposed a $447 billion package of tax cuts and spending measures on Thursday aimed at spurring growth and hiring.

Study shows that Affordable Care Act may be able to counter health coverage problems in U.S.

Bipartisanship was the catchphrase of the night, as both Democrats and Republicans called on their colleagues to work together in order to boost job creation.

Michele Bachmann was the only Republican to give a formal, full-length rebuttal to President Obama's jobs speech Thursday night; House Majority Leader Eric Cantor spoke briefly to Bloomberg TV and House Speaker John Boehner issued a short statement.

When President Obama addressed Congress Thursday night, he wanted to put forward a bold, yet agreeable proposal to help jump-start the economy. Here are five things President Obama would want you to take away from his jobs bill, if nothing else.

Rick Perry's biggest talking point in his young campaign has been the strength of the Texas economy. He frequently notes that his state has created more jobs than any other since the economy soured, and he boasts about Texas's ability to manage its own health care system without federal interference. But the facts are somewhat different.

In a joint-session address Thursday, President Barack Obama said the United States faces a national crisis and pressed Congress to urgently pass a jobs package of tax cuts and government spending he is proposing to revive the stalled U.S. economy.

Bloomberg thinks memorial was rushed

New Mexico governor Susana Martinez admits her grandparents came to U.S. illegally.

First responders are not invited to the 9/11 National Memorial for the upcoming 10th anniversary ceremony, in what many people are calling a slap in the face to those who risked their lives to save others from the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Before the Obama jobs speech at 7 p.m. on Thursday, a list of his talking points has already been leaked to The Daily Caller.