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Rand Paul's filibuster leave no one un-offended.

Ann Coulter spoke at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday, firing off an insult about New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's snub from the annual conference. "Even CPAC had to cut back on its speakers ...

The prosecution and the defense in the Steubenville rape trial jousted in court during the testimony of the accuser's former friend Saturday morning in attempts to paint a clearer picture of the alleged victim's characte...

After long delays, the former military dictator Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt, under whose rule tens of thousands of villagers were killed in a civil war against leftists, is set to stand trial.

With Blizzard Entertainment (a division of Activision Blizzard Publishing) riding the wave of positive press with StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, the game publisher is also celebrating The Art of Blizzard. With a new b...

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabweans were expected to vote for a new constitution on Saturday that would clip presidential powers and pave the way for an election to decide whether Robert Mugabe extends his three-decade rule.

The Pakistan People's Party, which led the government for the past five years, faces a difficult challenge in the upcoming national election expected in May because of anger over faltering economic growth, worsening ener...

OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) — Former Dallas Cowboys defensive end Marcus Spears has agreed to a two-year contract with the Baltimore Ravens. The Ravens announced the move late Friday night. Spears is expected to take a...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The University of Tennessee wants to allow hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas on a state-owned tract of rolling woodland and use the revenue to fund research into the environmental...

Two friends who died in a crash caused by a wrong-way driver on Lake Shore Drive this week were both college students, and one victim was planning to graduate in May.

JERUSALEM -- Israel's prime minister has notified the country's president that he has succeeded in forming a government. Benjamin Netanyahu presented the lineup to President Shimon Peres on Saturday, a day after a coalit...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - In a break from months of saber rattling, China under new President Xi Jinping appears to be moderating its approach to a potentially explosive territorial dispute with Japan and taking measures to ...

Is it just us or does Naya Rivera look a lot like Kim Kardashian lately? The "Glee" star was spotted out and about in Los Angeles yesterday (March 15), stopping by a Crumbs Bake Shop for some cupcakes. But it wasn't her ...

This year's TEDxTeen conference was all about "Generation Why" -- a generation of amazing young people who refuse to accept "that's just the way it is" as an answer to the problems they see around them. They believe that...

Low turnout at polls in referendum vote for new constitution that would limit powers of President Robert Mugabe.

In the 1970s, Father Jorge Bergoglio faced a moment of truth: Would he stand up to Argentina's military neo-Nazis "disappearing" thousands including priests, or keep his mouth shut and his career on track? Like many othe...

The pregnant head coach of a Pennsylvania university's women's lacrosse team and the driver of the team bus are dead and several others are seriously injured after their tour bus went off a freeway and crashed into a tre...

The photographs in the battered leather suitcase are all Estella del la Cuadra has left. Gingerly, she lifts them from the suitcase and lays them faces up like playing cards, atop a fade hand-written letter.

ROSS ISLAND, Antarctica (AP) — Across most of Earth, a tourist attraction that sees 35,000 visitors a year can safely be labeled sleepy. But when it's Antarctica, every footstep matters. Tourism is rebounding here...

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's center-left alliance scraped a narrow victory in a vote to appoint the new speakers of parliament on Saturday but the fragile margin of success underlined how hard it will be to form a stable gov...

This vibrant, sprawling city of contrasts is becoming easier to navigate, but the main reason visitors return is the people.

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Booth Gardner, a two-term Democratic governor who later in life spearheaded a campaign that made Washington the second state in the country to legalize assisted suicide for the terminally ill, has...