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A wildfire the size of Phoenix could disable power lines that carry electricity to hundreds of thousands of people, the Associated Press reported.

Now that Congressman Anthony Weiner appears to have sexted himself right out of mayoral contention, Alec Baldwin is thinking now might be the right time to run.

The Senate voted to keep a provision of last year's financial reform bill that caps fees on debit card transactions.

As violence escalates in the Arab Republic, Syrians flee across Turkey's still-open borders.

Los Angeles Police Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to shut down red-light traffic cameras at 32 intersections, saying it costs too much and doesn't reduce safety.

Afghanistan will sink into a financial crisis in 2014, when foreign troops finally withdraw from the war-torn country, warned some top U.S. Democrats who are members of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

California is at risk of violating the first court-ordered November to cut 10,000 inmates, but lawmakers must pass tax plan.

The Wallow Fire along Arizona's eastern border forests has grown quickly and unchecked on Wednesday as the latest official area measurements show fast expansion of what is currently the 2nd largest fire in the state's history.

A draconian order that requires all .kz domain names, such as google.kz, to operate on physical servers within the borders of Kazakhstan was issued last month by the country's Ministry of Communications and Information.

A report by the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee questioned the success of foreign assistance in Afghanistan, detailing the extent to which the nation has become reliant on aid dollars to sustain its still-tenuous infrastructure while suggesting that America will need to continue financially supporting the country for years to come.

Bin Laden's second-in-command, Egyptian-born Ayman al-Zawahri. delivered a video eulogy for Osama Bin Laden, posted on YouTube today.

U.S. drone missile strikes have killed at least twenty people in North Waziristan, the wild tribal region of Pakistan that borders Afghanistan and is reportedly a haven for terrorist groups.

The Chinese military has confirmed that it is constructing its first aircraft carrier.

Following Anthony Weiner's confession, New Yorkers are split in their opinions toward Weiner's resignation. With Weiner's future career on the fence, New Yorkers have expressed mixed reactions, and some think other politicians are about the same.

After the latest U.S. political sex scandal involving Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-NY, partisans are following the money trail to find potentially embarrassing associations and are having some success in getting at least two representatives to part with donations.

A new Quinnipiac poll solidified a growing perception that the Republican nomination could be Mitt Romney's to lose.

The state's House of Representatives passed legislation would make possession of a half ounce or less of marijuana subject to a fine, rather than criminal charges.

Famed analyst Meredith Whitney, who ignited a firestorm of controversy last December when she warned that the U.S. will witness waves and waves of bond defaults by state and municipal governments (costing up to hundred billion dollars) reiterated her gloomy prediction.

NATO will not place any ground troops on Libyan soil after the civil war there is over, according to Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

Reports are surfacing that Alec Baldwin is considering a 2013 New York City mayoral Run

A woman claiming to be Syria's ambassador to France resigned from her post on France 24's English-language program The Debate last night.

President Obama met with the crown prince of Bahrain on Tuesday and urged to carry out political and economic reforms, and pressed him to investigate alleged abuses after a February crackdown on dissenters earned Bahrain international condemnation.

The United Nations and the White House have condemned the burning of a mosque in the West Bank yesterday.

NATO defense ministers are meeting in Brussels to discuss the progress of the ongoing military campaign in Libya, as NATO missiles continue to mercilessly bomb the compound of Moammar Gaddafi in Tripoli.

The Gaza Strip's health minister Basem Naem blames West Bank-based Palestinian Authority for an acute shortage of medicines and supplies in the region.

A famous letter about Jews written by a young Adolf Hitler has been put on display in New York’s Museum of Tolerance.

The Libyan woman who announced to international media that she was gang-raped by Gaddafi troupes has been relocated to Romanian UN headquarters.

Presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty sent a withering rebuke to President Obama today in a speech that trumpeted tax cuts and decreased regulation as ways to spur economic growth.

Representative Anthony Weiner refused to step down on Tuesday even as friends deserted him and political foes bayed for his blood. Responding to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s statement that Weiner should quit, the disgraced politician said: “He’s (Cantor) entitled to his viewpoint ... I’m not resigning, no.” But how long can he hang on to the public office after he squandered away people's trust by denying that he sent the lewd photograph to a woman's Twitter account?