The Wisconsin Senate voted on Wednesday to weaken public employee unions in the state even as 14 Democratic senators remained away from the capital in an effort to delay the vote.
A group of UK-based journalists were detained and abused by security forces loyal to Moammar Gaffadi as they tried to reach the western Libyan city of Aw-Zawiyah, which has witnessed savage fighting between rebel s and government soldiers
Seven children died Tuesday evening from carbon monoxide poisoning and smoke inhalation after a fire engulfed a home in a central Pennsylvania farming town, according to a local coroner.
Thousands of mostly youthful demonstrators have held a rally in central Amman in Jordan, demanding jobs and political reform and an end to official corruption.
Governor Pat Quinn’s Statement on Abolishing Death Penalty.
The governor of Illinois has signed a law that will ban the death penalty in the state, making it the sixteenth U.S. state to prohibit the ultimate punishment.
Idaho teachers will create a human chain around the state capitol and hold a rally on Wednesday after the legislature passed a bill that will weaken their union, as similar measures are making progress in various other U.S. states.
The Egyptian Army has cleared protesters out of Tahrir Square in Cairo after having arrested 100 men carrying knives and other weapons who were planning to attack anti-government demonstrators.
Libyan officials have arrived in Brussels, Belgium for talks with European Union delegates, just before the EU foreign minister meet to discuss the crisis in Libya, according to Al Jazeera.
Squatters have entered and occupied a house in London that is believed to be owned Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of the Libyan leader, according to the Metropolitan Police.
Moammar Gaddafi-backed forces have reportedly launched fresh air strikes on the key oil port city of Ras Lanuf, raising fears about the vulnerability of local gas facilities and a possible humanitarian catastrophe.
A court in Tunisia has dissolved the former ruling party of ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
The Chairman of the Board of Directors at NPR said on Wednesday that the organization board had accepted the resignation, effective immediately, of chief executive Vivian Schiller as President and CEO.
Hispanics and Asians accounted for the bulk of population growth in the state of California over the past decade, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Moammar Gaddafi has warned that if a no-fly zone is imposed n Libya by the UN Security Council, he and his military will respond with armed resistance.
A young woman from Mexico who took on the top police chief role last year in a small Mexican border town has fled to the United States with her entire family apparently after receiving death threats and is formally seeking asylum, according to reports.
A Libyan airplane carrying a senior representative of Moammar Gaddafi’s government has apparently landed in Cairo. The Libyan official on the aircraft is reportedly set for talks with Amr Moussa, chief of the Arab league.
A post-revolution stir is burning through Egyptian capital Cairo as feminists were sexually assaulted, and Muslims-Christians clashed on Tuesday, after anti-Mubarak protesters face fury of armed men on Sunday.
Japanese prime minister Naoto Kan on Wednesday appointed Takeaki Matsumoto as the country’s new foreign minister, in a bid to restore confidence in his government.
A Greek official has told the Associated Press that a private Libyan jet has crossed through Greek-monitored airspace from Libya to Egypt.
Schools in these states will receive $9 million in federal funds that will help them provide students with wireless broadband connection for laptops, phones and mobile devices even after regular campus hours.
The U.S. Department of Energy forecasts oil prices to average $105 a barrel in 2011, and said there is a 25 percent chance that gasoline prices will exceed $4 a gallon this summer.
Even as calls for the intervention of the U.S. and the western forces in the Libyan crisis gained momentum, besieged Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has said there is a foreign plot to colonize his country.
John Leahy, chief operating officer for customers at Airbus claims that the U.S. administration had a significant influence on the award of the deal.
Identity theft has topped the list of consumer complaints last year, followed by debt collection, according to a report from the Federal Trade Commission.
State security officers in the Yemeni capitol of Sanaa have fired at a large number of student protesters outside the university, resulting in at least 98 wounded and injured people.
Project Veritas has released a video showing a National Public Radio executive describing the Tea Party as being racist and xenophobic.
Moammar Gaddafi is in a hotel in Tripoli filled with foreign reporters and will speak to them sometime tonight, according to CNN.
Amidst the growing pains of a revolution that will hopefully one lead to democracy, a scar from the past reared its ugly head in Egypt when a clash between Coptic Christians and Muslims in Cairo led to the death of one Copt.
About three dozen mobsters were arrested across Italy and Germany following police raids in those countries.
