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While none of the major possible Republican candidates for president have officially started a campaign, some -- exemplified by former Minnesota Gov. Tim

Maybe this post requires an addendum. The Pakistani Supreme Court just took a major step toward ousting beleaguered President Asif Ali Zardari: Pakistan’s top

The ad wars continue to run hot down in Florida’s three-way Senate race, but the lines of attack keep shifting. Florida’s Republican governor Charlie Christ,

Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) took a podium before a banking convention this morning with the clear goal of alleviating industry fears over the Democrats’ plans

BP released this morning a wide-ranging investigation of the Gulf oil spill. According to the report, the Deepwater Horizon Accident Investigation Report, there

In the last four months, more than 30,000 Somali children under the age of 5 have died during the worst drought in the area in 60 years, according to U.S. government statistics.

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), drawing the hearing to a conclusion, remembers being with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in 2005, and hearing about how he was

Jon Buice, who confessed to joining in the hate-crime murder of Paul Broussard in Houston in 1991, will be paroled in October after serving less than half of

New homeowners who used the Obama administration’s tax credits will get special scrutiny from the agency.

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) takes another bite at the Afghanistan apple. He says he doesn’t want to compare anything to Vietnam, but he’s worried Afghanistan is

The most important thing is to understand that before we do a military operation in Afghanistan, we really have got to get the consent of the people who are

“I’ve given them everything you could possibly want, pay stubs, tax returns, everything, says one engineer. It’s not that I don’t have supporting documents. It’s that nobody has even looked at my documents.

A Florida judge has ruled that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional, a victory for the 26 states that joined in a suit challenging the law in federal court. # U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson ruled Monday that the “individual mandate” portion of the health care reform, which requires people to buy health insurance or pay a penalty, cannot be severed from the rest of the law, rendering the entire act unconstitutional.

Only three states currently allow undocumented immigrants to drive. Even there, new laws could restrict their right to get behind the wheel.

About 15 hours after Massey CEO Don Blankenship told Congress that worker safety is the company’s top priority, another Massey miner died in West Virginia, The

President Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderón announced a trade agreement Thursday, making good on an aspect of the 1994 NAFTA pact that has long been

Housing sales should rise a strong 5 percent in March, housing economists say, with the rush fueled by the end-of-the-month expiry of the first time homebuyer’s

Likely Republican caucusgoers sent a strong message to GOP presidential candidates in an Iowa AARP survey released Thursday, showing they’re strongly opposed to cuts to Social Security and Medicare and would much rather reduce military spending to address the federal deficit. That message could be made stronger by the fact that more than 20 percent of those surveyed are still unsure who they’ll support in the Jan

A detention facility in Montana must now administer all medical treatments to incarcerated pregnant women, including opiate-withdrawal medication, following a

Sandra Pianalto, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, gave a speech explaining how she analyzes the economy and forecasting a long, slow