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Businessman, columnist and former radio host from Georgia Herman Cain has raised around $2.46 million for his presidential bid, his presidential campaign said. Cain says he has not campaign debt.

Thousands of people rallied in Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday, in protest of the state's new law which aims to clamp down on illegal immigration.

President Obama and Republicans are in a battle over the federal deficit and a deadline for raising the federal debt limit on August 2 as GOP leaders push to cut spending from government services.

Herman Cain, a successful business executive running for the President, raised $2.5 million towards that cause in second quarter 2011.

A spectacular twist in Dominique Strauss-Kahn's rape case has resulted in his release from house arrest as attention shifts to the victim's credibility.

Herman Cain shot into the national spotlight by winning the first GOP presidential debate. He continued to generate excitement with his Tea Party rhetoric and commitment to conservative social issues.

Muammar Gaddafi threatened Europe on Friday. He said his Libyan supporters can take the battle to Europe, to target your homes, offices, families, which would become legitimate military targets, like you have targeted our homes.

Yingluck Shinawatra, the 44-year-old youngest sister of the exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, of the Puea Thai Party, is challenging the Democrat incumbent Abhisit Vejjajiva in Sunday’s general polls.

Herman Cain has no political experience. However, he said it's an asset because Washington needs some new blood. That's a valid point and one that will resonate with the voters.

The finance minister of Poland has criticized the European Union (EU) for the way it has handled the Greek financial crisis.

Prosecutors in New York now doubt the credibility of the hotel maid who alleged that Dominique Strauss-Kahn raped her, but the evidence surrounding the rape itself are still solid, her lawyer says.

New York state appears likely to lift its ban on extracting natural gas through hydrofracking, even as officials express concern they are being misled regarding the energy extraction method's risks.

In a remarkable reversal of fate, evidence is pouring in to prove to that Dominique Strauss Kahn was probable the hunted one, rather than the hunter. According to the latest reports, the Guinean hotel maid, who accused the former IMF chief of sexually assaulting in a New York hotel, has probably been a prostitute who milked hefty tips from male guests in return of sexual favors.

Congressional lawmakers looking for ways to reduce spending could look to the tax code, economists say.

UN refugee camps are at capacity all over eastern Africa. But Somalis keep fleeing their country headed to Kenya, Ethiopia and elsewhere.

Attorneys for Jared Lee Loughner appealed a federal judge's decision that allows him to be forcibly medicated with mind-altering psychotropic drugs.

US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton has shrugged off threats by Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi that he will attack Europe and reiterated her demand that he step down from power.

While promoting her new book Demonic: How the Liberal Mob is Endangering America, Ann Coutler, the conservative commentator slammed America's obsession with British royals

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn spent his very first day outside, free from the house arrest on Saturday. This happened as the prosecutors gave him a benefit of doubt regarding the credibility of the maid who accused him of a sexual assault and attempt to rape.

Maria Shriver, the former NBC newscaster and the first lady of California has filed for divorce from Arnold Schwarzenegger

Muammar Gaddafi uttered some disturbing words to a crowd of supporters in Tripoli on Friday.

China celebrated Communist Party of China (CPC)'s 90th anniversary on Friday, July 1.

European investigators from the European Food Safety Authority are looking to Egyptian fenugreek seeds as a potential culprit in this month's E. coli pandemic.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has set a special election for Sept. 13 to replace former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-New York, in Congress. Coinciding with state primaries, six vacant seats in the state assembly are also up for grabs.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has backtracked on one of the core tenets of his presidential campaign: that President Barack Obama has made a struggling U.S. economy even worse.

The Minnesota government shutdown partly revolved around the issue of making millionaires pay more taxes.

North Africa is not a homogenous bloc of Arab societies, struggling in unison for one pan-Arab cause. U.S. media coverage of the Arab spring in Tunisia and Egypt has largely ignored the mass movement of North Africa's ethnic minorities.