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It is an extreme understatement to say times have changed in the U.S. over the last 50 years. Fifty years ago, smoking was the definition of cool. Being skinny wasn't the ideal, but instead what you tried to avoid. Women...

PHOENIX -- Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has built a political career in standing up to the federal government over everything from immigration to health care....

Man who pointed pistol at Turkish minority leader will face hooliganism and death threat charges, prosecutors say.

Few will question the public's fascination with peer-to-peer file-sharing. Services with cool-sounding names like Napster, Kazaa, Limewire, Grokster, Morpheus, Gnutella, BitTorrent and MegaUpload flourished among the dig...

The article argues that there is hope for compromise between Western legal systems and Islamic law regarding the adoption of children from Islamic countries...

Police in the state of New Mexico say a teenager shot and killed five people, including three children.

Warren Buffett says he knows the biggest challenge President Obama will be facing in his second term: Congress. Though the billionaire investor says he thinks...

SANAA, Yemen -- A Yemen security official says an explosion in the province of Bayda has killed at least 13 suspected al-Qaida militants. The official in Bayda's capital city of Radda says the explosion went off in a hou...

It's a situation many administrations face, as trusted confidants seek a break from the grueling pace, but reducing reliance on insiders can have unpredictable second-term consequences.

Gennady Golovkin won in seven rounds last night after Gabriel Rosado's trainer was forced to throw in the towel. Golovkin was reportedly sick heading into the fight, but it did not seem to stop him.

No force in the world has done more than the government of the United States to create a radical global jihad army.

Alcoholism and other chemical dependencies are the Trojan Horse of the family business. When someone is working in a company there is little to no tolerance for alcoholic symptoms. The...

Go big or play it safe? It's a calculus all second-term presidents make when they're fresh off a re-election, emboldened by the satisfaction that a majority of voters approved enough of their first term to send them back...

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt's daughter Sophie has posted a lengthy account with photos of their recent trip to North Korea. She describes deep government control of the nine-person delegation's visit and North...

ALGIERS, Algeria -- The death toll from the terrorist siege at a natural gas plant in the Sahara climbed to at least 81 on Sunday as Algerian forces searching the refinery for explosives found dozens more bodies, many so...

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) made headlines Sunday morning by promising that Senate Democrats will write and pass a full tax and spending bill by the March 1 deadline for the next budget. "It's going to be a great opportu...

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Algeria said 23 hostages and 32 militants died in a four-day siege that ended Saturday at a natural-gas plant in the Sahara, according to published accounts.

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WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats intend to approve a budget for the first time in almost four years, a prominent lawmaker said Sunday, but he said...

Senate Democrats plan to draft a budget blueprint that calls for significantly higher taxes on the wealthy, oil and gas companies and corporations doing business overseas, reopening a battle over taxes Republicans had ho...

The prospect of advancing to the Super Bowl has injected every detail of the NFC Championship Game with intensity. Case in point: Falcons defensive back Thomas DeCoud made a solid but unspectacular play by breaking up a ...