AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told a group of reporters that unions plan to scale back their direct involvement with the Democratic party
There will be more aftershocks in the coming days, if not weeks.
A U.S. Navy panel has ruled that the former commander of the USS Enterprise committed misconduct by broadcasting raunchy videos aboard the aircraft carrier, but that he should not be discharged.
Gadhafi’s whereabouts are a mystery, though rebels believe he is in or near Tripoli.
Libyan commandos fighting Muammar Gaddafi came close to capturing the toppled leader on Wednesday when they raided a private home in Tripoli where he appeared to have been hiding, Paris Match magazine said on Thursday.
U.S. initial jobless claims unexpectedly rose by 5,000 to 417,000 last week -- a total skewed higher by an irregular event, the Verizon strike. However, if claims remain above the 400,000 level in the weeks ahead, that would be another sign that the U.S. economic recovery continues to slow -- exactly what policy makers do not want.
Asbrink’s book suggests a much deeper involvement.
his is the first major storm to seriously threaten the Bahamian archipelago in ten years.
Perry is the GOP’s new frontrunner for the presidential nomination.
The Forbes list of Most Powerful Women in the world for 2011 was released on Wednesday, Aug. 24.
The problem is growing worse because children of stateless parents are themselves stateless.
A Pakistani police official who had claimed that an abducted American national was freed in the city of Khushab, northwest of Lahore, retracted his statement within an hour and said he could not confirm or deny that the American was free.
Four Italian journalists who were abducted near Zawiya in Libya Wednesday have been freed, the Italian daily Corriere della Sera reported on its Web site Thursday.
An American development expert kidnapped 12 days ago in Lahore has been rescued, a Pakistani police official said Thursday.
The heads of a Congress deficit super committee said on Wednesday most members were reviewing budget-balancing studies of recent years in a sign the panel was unlikely to try to reinvent the wheel.
President Barack Obama is finalizing a jobs package that could include a program to refurbish school buildings nationwide and tax breaks to encourage firms to hire workers.
Syrian opposition figures who met in Istanbul to form a council said Thursday that they needed more time to consult with activists inside the country on its composition.
Libya's new masters have offered a million-dollar bounty for the fugitive Moammar Gadhafi, after he urged his men to fight on in battles across parts of the capital.
Rebels fought gun battles in Tripoli with loyalists of Muammar Gaddafi Wednesday as they hunted for his relatives and supporters, Reuters witnesses and an Arab television station said.
Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, in danger of losing his 2012 Republican primary front-runner status, on Wednesday he would not place restrictions on carbon emissions if elected.
President Barack Obama is finalizing a jobs package that could include a program to refurbish school buildings nationwide and tax breaks to encourage firms to hire workers.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney signed a secret resignation letter shortly after taking office in 2001 and kept it in a safe, according to an excerpt of an NBC interview released on Wednesday.
Routine bribery shakedowns have driven middle-class Indians to pour into the streets to say enough is enough.
Female politicians took three out of the top five spots in Forbes' 2011 list of the most powerful women in the world.
For the fifth time this year, Mexican police have found the body of a local mayor. Over the weekend, the body of Mayor Jose Nava of Zucuaplan was discovered, beaten to death and left on the side of a highway.
In the wake of Sept. 11, 2011, the New York Police Department has seen an unprecedented expansion of its surveillance and intelligence activities that includes actively spying on Muslim New Yorkers.
“We’re very concerned about what’s going to happen in New England,” said Bill Read, director of the NHC.
The historic earthquake caused a historic damage as it shook the nation's capital.While the mess around Washington, D.C. is being cleaned up on Wednesday, the Washington Monument in the heart of the city remained encircled within a black fence - due to a crack caused by Tuesday's 5.8-magnitude earthquake centered in Virginia.
‘Wallow Fire’ took more than one month to contain.
Rick Perry surged ahead of Mitt Romney in a Gallup poll released Wednesday, underscoring how conservative the Republican presidential primary race has become.
