A San Antonio jury has found polygamist leader Warren Jeffs guilty on both sexual assault charges on Thursday.
Lawmakers agreed to fund the Federal Aviation Administration and end the 13-day shutdown, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced on Thursday.
Kate Middleton makes her way onto Vanity Fair?s 72nd Annual International 'Best-Dressed' List this year, making the fashion cut for the second time in 3 years. Middleton's inaugural appearance came in 2008, and a whirlwind of fashion successes followed.
The Tea Party-swayed Republican Party won the U.S. debt deal crisis: federal spending was cut substantially. But amid a weak economy, did the coalition cut spending too soon?
The U.S. Air Force is suspending an ethics course that had nuclear missile launch officers consider the moral implications of a nuclear strike by reading Bible quotes.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney signed a pledge on Thursday promising to take legal measures against gay marriage.
New York City has announced its plan to spend $127 million in public and private funds on the launch of a major policy initiative to help the minority youth in the city.Mayor Michael Bloomberg and hedge fund manager George Soros will each donate $30 million according to the mayor's office.
President Barack Obama turned 50 on Thursday. But the celebration was muted by a big decline on Wall Street. Some economists are suggesting the U.S. is just "one shock" away from another recession, and questions are being peppered to Obama about his plans for turning around the U.S. economy.
Carcinogens float in drinking wells in Nigeria.
President Barack Obama took steps to strengthen America's policing of war crimes on Thursday, issuing a proclamation that bars some human rights violators from entering the country, and that also sets up a board to try and anticipate imminent mass atrocities.
A five-year campaign 'Operation Shady RAT' that compromised networks in 72 major organizations around the world, including several governments, ASEAN, IOC and the world anti-doping agency, made news Tuesday. Government agencies in India, South Korea, Taiwan, and the U.S. were attacked, plus high-profile targets like the International Olympic Committee.
According to Amrullah Saleh, Afghanistan's former spy chief, Afghan spies had information four years ago that located Osama bin Laden close to where he was found hiding. However, then Pakistan president, Pervez Musharraf, refused to act on the detailed intelligence reports.
California's new Fair, Accurate, Inclusive and Respectful (FAIR) Education Act, signed by Gov. Jerry Brown last month is set to go into effect as of the first of the year, but a referendum may stand in its way.
Emboldened by concessions wrung from their own leadership and President Barack Obama during the debt limit fight, Tea Party-affiliated lawmakers will likely remain a driving force in the Republican Party -- and possibly induce gridlock until the 2012 elections.
A longtime family friend of presidential candidate Jon Huntsman described to Politico a disorganized campaign engulfed with drama as staffers resign, those that remain feud with one another and Huntsman remains mired in single digit poll numbers.
Virginia Tech is on lockdown as police search for a possible gunman.
U.S. states are making "unprecedented" cuts to unemployment benefit programs, hoping to keep their budgets in line as the country's jobless rate shows no sign of budging, according to a report the National Employment Law Project released on Wednesday.
Campus Security and local police search for the reported gunman.
The Prime Minister cracks down on lax safety.
As the focus of modern warfare shifts from conventional military campaigns to clandestine, targeted strikes, the U.S. military has increasingly come to rely on covert operatives employed by U.S. Special Operations Command, according to a new report.
President Barack Obama celebrates the big 5-0.
Canada's main opposition New Democratic Party, already hobbled by the sickness of leader Jack Layton, hit more problems on Tuesday when it emerged his interim successor had belonged to a Quebec separatist party.
Thousands of civilians were fleeing the city, a bastion of protest surrounded by a ring of steel of troops with tanks and heavy weapons
Company had no verifiable address, clients, or business operations, and was dissolved four months after it was formed
The high cost of eating healthily.
In the largest one-day hike in history, U.S. Government debt shot up to $239 billion.
U.S. forces are scheduled to leave Iraq by 2012, but American officials want troops to stay longer.
Minister Dipu Moni accused The Economist of waging a ?smear campaign? against the Dhaka government.
President Barack Obama turned his 50th birthday into a 2012 campaign fundraising bonanza on Wednesday, buoyed by a hometown crowd after what he called a frustrating period locked in a debt battle with Republicans.
It is not known where she has gone for surgery
