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Read Tuesday's full statement from the Fed.

For patrons of Arizona's cannabis clubs, exchanging medical marijuana is legal -- but not, according to a new lawsuit, if you pay for it.

Millions of barrels of oil will be saved, administration says.

As warfare becomes increasingly defined by targeted counter-terrorism operations rather than battles against conventional armies, Special Ops troops have grown in number and importance.

In response to a slowing economy, the U.S. Federal Reserve, despite some internal dissent, announced Tuesday that it plans to keep monetary policy stimulus in place, noting that it will keep short-term interests rates exceptionally low through at least mid-2013. The Fed will also continue to reinvest bond proceeds maturing in its portfolio.

The Dow advanced slightly Tuesday after the Fed pledged to keep its benchmark interest rate at a record low through at least mid-2013.

The FOMC released the following statement on monetary policy on Aug. 9, 2011.

Mexican immigration to the U.S. has been cut more than half since 2006, due to the economic collapse north of the border.

Mayor Nutter tries to squash flash mobs, assaults.

As the chaos in Britain goes into its third day, Internet rumors have claimed that in addition to the widespread destruction, people were having their clothes stripped by looters as police attempted to contain the violence.

Social media services BlackBerry Messenger, Twitter and others have become weapons for rioters in London. They are using the connectivity tools to organize and stay one step ahead of police.

Meanwhile, Metropolitan Police plans to deploy thousands of officers in a grand show of strength to prevent further acts of disorder.

Authorities are offering a $45,000 reward for anyone able to locate BreeAnn Rodriguez, a 3-year-old southeast Missouri girl who went missing while riding her bike on Saturday.

Jeffs was found guilty of sexually assaulting 12- and 15-year old "wives."

vVllages have been demolished and thousands of residents have been forced out of their homes, while many others still face eviction.

Kyla Grace Palin was reportedly born Aug. 6

Much of the current rioting and looting in London for the past three days has been coordinated not just via Facebook and Twitter, but also via BlackBerry smartphones that use encrypted communications, according to British authorities.

Crazy-eyed photo has conservatives accusing magazine of sexism.

Syrian forces killed at least 30 people and moved into a town near the Turkish border on Tuesday, an activist group said, even as Turkey's foreign minister pressed President Bashar al-Assad to halt assaults on protests against his rule.

BRC stated that retail shops of every size and type have lost business to the rioters.

Despite the S&P downgrade of the United States, Russia announced that it has no plans to make an immediate change to its U.S. dollar-denominated gold or foreign exchange reserves, a senior Russian bank official has confirmed.

Libyan officials said on Tuesday dozens of civilians had been killed in a NATO strike on a cluster of farmhouses east of Tripoli, but the alliance said it hit a legitimate military target.

Newsweek ran a wild-eyed cover photo of Michele Bachmann that's coming under fire from conservatives. Was the cover image a cheap shot? One writer thinks so.

The Senate Banking Committee has begun looking into last week's decision by Standard & Poor's to downgrade the U.S. credit rating, a committee aide has confirmed.

James P. Zumwalt became the first American representative to attend the memorial service on the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945.

A 26-year-old man became the first fatality of the London riots this week after he was shot in a car in Croydon, south of London, police said on Tuesday.

The security of the Summer Games becomes a concern for many.

The fact is, as the current disturbances clearly demonstrate, that Britain is a hard, grim and rough nation that has long been scarred by social inequalities, violence, drug abuse, gang warfare, racial tension, the collapse of manufacturing and, now, an economic crisis that threatens to tear the country asunder.

Following three nights of rioting and looting in London, some police, politicians and media organizations singled out Blackberry's messaging network as being a useful aid for UK troublemakers.