Republican strategists are juiced up about the announcement today that Sen. Kent Conrad, D-ND, has decided not to seek re-election in 2012.
As part of his ongoing efforts to cut red tape in government, President Barack Obama is asking all the agencies under his control to review any of the rules which place unreasonable burdens upon businesses and hinder economic growth.
Much has been said about America’s love affair with guns. Still, it is hard to overstate the size and intensity of the romance.
The boss of a German technology company has apparently lost his job as a result of comments attributed to him in a WikiLeaks document.
South Sudan appealed for investors to plough $140 million into its war-hit wildlife parks, seeking to kick-start a tourism industry and wean itself off oil months ahead of its expected independence.
Talks to end Ivory Coast's post-election standoff remain in deadlock, with no sign Laurent Gbagbo will agree to step down as president and his rival unwilling to meet him until he does, mediators said on Tuesday.
As another ongoing victim of the recession and financial imbalances, the struggling, crime-ridden city of Camden, New Jersey prepares to lay off about 25 percent of its work force, including 43 percent of police department and one-third of its firefighters, in order to fix a $26.5-million budget deficit.
U.S. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-NY, who lost her husband and saw her son injured in the 1993 Long Island train massacre, will introduce legislation today to ban the sale of enhanced gun clips, like the one used by the shooter in the Tucson massacre of Jan. 8.
US stocks traded mixed in early trade on Tuesday following weaker-than-expected earnings from Citigroup, while declines in Apple shares dragged technology-heavy Nasdaq lower.
Taiwan tested as many as 19 air-to-air and surface-to-air missiles even as Chinese President Hu Jintao was due to meet President Obama for a summit meeting.
A Swiss lawyer officially filed a legal maneuver asking the government to freeze any assets held by Tunisia's former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in Swiss banks, on the heels of a similar request by the Swiss Socialist Party.
Four ministers of the day-old new national unity government have quit, as the streets of Tunis again witness a fresh round of protests.
The United States is awaiting official results of Sudan's referendum on whether to split the country into two, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Monday.
Indian pharmaceutical company Strides Arcolab on Tuesday said it got the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to sell an additional package size of Adenosine injection used for treating cardiac diseases.
U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar is seeking to renew the Federal Assault Weapon Ban (AWB) which expired on September 13, 2004.
U.S. President Barack Obama will host Chinese President Hu Jintao for a state visit on Tuesday in a crucial summit of the world's two biggest powers that some analysts have called the most important since Deng Xiaoping's visit 30 years ago.
China is committed to reforming its exchange rate policy, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, after senior U.S. senators pressed for Congress to get tough with China over manipulating its currency.
A suicide bomber wearing a vest filled with explosives attacked Iraqi police recruits on Tuesday in former dictator Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, killing at least 42 and wounding over 100, officials said.
Trade Minister Anand Sharma said on Tuesday monetary policy may not be the right tool to fight high food inflation, in a strong political signal against a rate hike in next week's Reserve Bank policy review.
China's increases in bank reserve requirement ratios (RRR) have become a key part of its arsenal in managing massive fund flows and investors should not be concerned that such policy tightening will choke growth.
State-run upstream firms are expected to give a total discount of 51.98 billion rupees ($1.14 billion) to retailers on fuel sales in the Oct-Dec 2010 quarter, up from a year ago, an industry source said on Tuesday
Chinese President Hu Jintao on Tuesday flew to the United States for a state visit buffeted before he even lands by senior U.S. senators demanding tough action against China for manipulating its currency.
Toyota Motors Corp is developing new type of electric motor which does not require rare earth metals to cut its dependence on rare earth metals and lower costs.
China said on Tuesday its rare earth exports rose 14.5 per cent in the Jan-Nov period of 2010 as prices more than doubled, with most of the shipments going to Japan, Europe and the United States.
The so-called super storm scenario prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey says such super storm has potential to move water of almost 50 Mississippi rivers into the Gulf of Mexico, causing massive floods and devastation in California.
While nearly half of the U.S. public said in a recent poll that accused Arizona shooter Jared Loughner's political views were a factor in the Tucson Massacre, the accused gunman was apolitical, a former friend said.
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives returns to work tomorrow and the first thing on its agenda is repeal of the Obama administration's health care reform.
Rights groups on Monday demanded Haiti arrest former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier for crimes against humanity after his surprise return from 25 years in exile, which strained an edgy political atmosphere in the volatile Caribbean state.
U.N. peacekeepers in Ivory Coast fired warning shots into the air to disperse angry supporters of incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo on Monday, and police fired return shots skywards in an incident that left three wounded, witnesses said.
A significant number of young women prostituted themselves with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, prosecutors investigating him said in a document made public on Monday.
