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The latest news from Syria. As Assad continues his offense, Syrians continue to flee to Turkey.

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan threatened to bypass Congress and work directly with states to enact education reform measures, signaling the Obama administration's frustration with Congressional inaction on overhauling the No Child Left Behind Act.

American Crossroads, a powerful political action committee whose fundraising helped propel sweeping GOP gains in 2010, said Friday it plans to raise $120 million to counter the Obama campaign's virtually limitless financial clout.

When it comes to matters of war, and who has the authority to start them, the U.S. President is becoming an “absolute monarch,” a House Democrat said Friday.

The Philippines and the United States plan to hold a joint navy drill in the disputed South China Sea next week.

Despite the ongoing crisis with euro zone debt, the United Kingdom could still join the euro, said former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

When Bulger disappeared in the early nineties, he haunted the streets of Boston. Children were afraid.

On June 23, Cindy Anthony's testimony shook the courtroom.The next day, Cindy Anthony, Casey Anthony's mother, was called back to the witness stand for a second day in a row.

In the measure, 70 Democrats joined 225 Republicans to resoundingly defeated the bill. The GOP contends President Barack Obama has violated the War Powers Act by deploying forces for the Libyan campaign; Democrats contend the GOP is playing politics with national security.

The exemptions for religious groups clause has bogged down the gay marriage bill debate, and as of mid-day it was uncertain whether the bill would be voted on Friday.

There are now 80 million members of the Communist Party of China (CPC), according Chinese state-owned news agency Xinhua.

A cell phone found on the body of Osama bin Laden's trusted courier contained contact information to members of Harakat-ul-Mujahedeen, a Pakistani Islamic military group believed to have ties to both Al-Qaeda and the Pakistani intelligence.

The trail against Yulia Tymoshenko was chaotic and inflammatory on Friday.

Obama's visit to New York City on Thursday included a high-profile fundraiser at the annual LGBT Leadership Gala at the Sheraton New York, in the very midst of 2011 NYC Pride events.

President Obama will announce a $500 million partnership to spur innovation and create jobs in the manufacturing sector during a speech at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh Friday.

President Obama's decision to sharply reduce troop levels in Afghanistan acknowledged how much the war is costing the U.S.

Lady Gaga has given the world the green light to return to Japan.

Consumer Watchdog on Friday said the White House's close relationship with the Google is inappropriate, as the Internet search company is currently under review by Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice, a report said on Friday.

John J. Connolly, the FBI agent responsible for Bulger's escape 16 years ago will be released from federal prison in four days.

Recently departed Osama bin Laden wanted to change the name of his terrorist outfit al-Qaeda to something else for “marketing reasons,” according to a report in the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph.

Las Vegas is not only place to roll the dice for really high stakes. Washington, D.C. is another, and the GOP has done exactly that in its deficit reduction talks walkout. It's a bold move, but fraught with risk: it could reshape the U.S.'s social welfare state, or trigger a market-rocking U.S. Government default on its bonds.

A close ally of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has reportedly been arrested on corruption charges, widening the ongoing rift between the president and Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

In the ongoing case over the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, the first woman to be convicted of genocide will get life in prison

Chat queen Oprah Winfrey will get an honorary doctorate from a South African university on Friday.

A no caps policy on political ads sees unprecedented rise in broadcast revenues.

The first-ever Congressional bill to let states legalize marijuana is a bipartisan effort, and the group of police and judges who make up LEAP, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, are 100% in favor of it. However, majority support does not appear likely in the current session of Congress.

Legislators left the Capitol late Thursday night with another day of inaction. The Senate's Republican majority is scheduled to meet behind closed doors at 10 a.m. on Friday, then go into open session

Indonesian migrant labor advocates and analysts say they don't just blame Saudi Arabia for the controversial beheading of 54-year-old Ruyati binti Sapubi. They blame their native Indonesia, for not taking strong enough measures to protect its nation's migrant workers from abuse.

TeaMp0isoN, a hacking group is trying to expose anonymous group identities of its rival LulzSec group, which obtained confidential documents in an attack on Arizona law enforcement.