Najla Said, acclaimed Palestine advocate and Edward Said's daughter discusses 'Orientalist' Gay Girl In Damascus blogger Tom MacMaster.
An arrest was made by Pakistan's top military spy agency, of the Pakistani informants who gave information to the CIA before the May 2 raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said NASA has been an absolute case study in why bureaucracy can't innovate.
Representative Anthony Weiner's claims he didn't use his congressional Blackberry to send salacious photographs and text messages may not be the only thing the House Ethics Committee is investigating.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry said on Tuesday that he is giving a second thought to mounting a presidential run, but refused to give a deadline by which he will make that decision.
A federal judge ruled today upheld a gay judge's ruling striking down California's ban, rejecting arguments that the judge's sexual orientation compromised his impartiality.
House Democrats decided to sustain pressure on Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) but not to pursue punitive measures at a closed meeting today.
Hactivist group Anonymous has painted a giant target on the back of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
House Speaker John Boehner has written the following letter to President Obama, asking him to explain the legality of his administration’s military activities in Libya.
U.S. House Speaker Republican John Boehner has asked President Barack Obama for a clear explanation of the legal standing supporting his administration’s continued military involvement in Libya.
After preliminary peace talks ended yesterday, the Sudan's southern border is again in flames.
Georgia Governor Nathan Deal signed a law to take agricultural jobs from illegal immigrants, only to give them to prisoners on probation.
The government is renewing investigations into two cases that could indicate serious lapses in the Central Intelligence Agency's methods of detaining and questioning terror suspects, the Associated Press reported.
Tunisia's interim government has announced that judgment day is near for ousted dictator Zine al-Abidine ben Ali.
Mildred Baena, the housekeeper who had a child by Arnold Schwarzenegger, finally broke her silence on Tuesday.
Jon Huntsman, the former governor of Utah who until recently served as U.S. ambassador to China, is preparing to officially declare he is running for president on June 21, sources told the Associated Press.
Here is the full-text of Enoch Powell’s famous (some would say infamous) “Rivers of Blood” speech on immigration. It was delivered to a Conservative Association meeting in Birmingham, England on April 20 1968.
The speech led to Powell being sacked by Prime Minister Edward Heath and might be considered the pivotal moment of Powell’s long political career.
Chairman Ben S. Bernanke t the Annual Conference of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, Washington, D.C. June 14, 2011
In the first official visit of a sitting American president to the Caribbean commonwealth since John F. Kennedy in 1961, President Barack Obama landed in Puerto Rico Tuesday, saying he's committed to the success and self-determination of the U.S. island territory.
Similar to last year's disastrous wildfires, the Russian wilderness is again ablaze.
Gunmen stormed a provincial government headquarter in Baqubah, in Iraq's Diyala province
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain was left to defend his earlier remarks about not being comfortable appointing Muslims in his administration during Monday night's GOP debate in New Hampshire.
Activists promoting pacifism and pro-labor causes have sharply questioned a sweeping Federal Bureau Investigation trying to link them to terrorism, the Washington Post reported.
The British government announced that Scotland will soon be allowed to issue its own sovereign bonds – guaranteed by Scotland itself, and not the UK government.
The Central Intelligence Agency is set to launch a campaign of unmanned air strikes against al Qaeda militants in Yemen who have become increasingly assertive as chaos has engulfed the country, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The Italian people voted for justice. But will their Prime Minister ever be prosecuted for his many alleged crimes?
Gaddafi troops fired rockets into Libya's neighboring country of Tunisia today
President Barack Obama said his wife and daughters aren’t all that “invested” in him being president and would be just as happy if he had decided against seeking re-election, Politico reported. But, he said, they believe in what he is doing for the country.
States across the country face a long road out of recession as they grapple with diminished revenues and persistent budget deficits, an analysis by the Associated Press found.
Up to 20,000 postal workers in Britain are likely to lose their jobs after the Royal Mail posted a £120-million loss in its letters and parcels business largely as a result of more people abandoning the system in favor of internet communications.