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A close collaborator of Russian President Vladimir Putin taunted President Barack Obama Monday via Twitter, after the U.S. administration imposed sanctions on Moscow for occupying Crimea and intervening in Ukraine's poli...

Peter Brookes analyzes the possibility

Elon Musk's high-profile battle to sell Tesla cars directly to consumers is just the latest challenge to state laws that give an advantage to powerful local businesses, even if the legislative justification is often diff...

Nicholas Teausant was arrested at the Canadian border and charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. He was allegedly planning to join al-Qaeda in Syria.

The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has expanded to 2.24 million nautical miles

In a meeting at the AEI Bill Gates points to what economists will argue is the best possible tax system, the consumption tax. It's worth pointing out the details of quite why economists think this is such a good tax: I t...

On Tuesday night, we were introduced to 12 new tributes for the 18th annual Hunger Games season of Dancing With the Stars. The game-makers set the tone for the evening by underscoring Meryl Davis.      

The 30-29 vote was short of the 32 votes needed to pass, a rare defeat for a bill on the floor of the Senate. There are 63 seats, two are vacant, and two senators did not vote.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says there was nothing easy about the decision to impose sanctions on Russia. After the vote in Crimea, the United States and European Union imposed sanctions on Russian and Crimean offici...

Following Crimea's referendum Sunday that resulted in a 97 percent vote favoring secession from Ukraine and joining Russia, Great Britain's defense minister said the country will offer NATO six Typhoon fighter jets to he...

Oklahoma announced Tuesday it's delaying two executions after it couldn't get the drugs it needs to perform lethal injections, foreshadowing similar problems that will start affecting other states as drug supplies run th...

Righting an historical wrong, President Obama today awarded the nation's highest military honor to two dozen Army veterans who were previously overlooked, saying "today we have the chance to set the record straight." "No...

Canadian soldiers come home, supporters rally around Vladimir Putin, the Hindu Holi festival wraps up in India, destruction and debris are abound in Syria, a news helicopter crashes in Seattle...

At the end of a nearly one hour conference call with investors in late October, Michael Johnson, the chief executive of Herbalife, reflected about his year-long battle with billionaire hedge fund manager William Ackman. ...

U.S. senators are hardly flinching at the news of Russian President Vladimir Putin's expected sanctions against American officials, with a few even embracing it. "My Lithuanian-born mother would be proud her son made Vla...

Could a massive passenger jet slip past radar, cross international borders and land undetected? And if so, who planned the route?

TV pitchman Kevin Trudeau has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for bilking consumers via infomercials for his best-selling weight loss book.

The epicenter of today's L.A. quake was 8 miles from oil waste injection wells Kyle Ferrar, FracTracker Alliance Was the 4.4-magnitude earthquake that rattled Los Angeles this morning caused by fracking methods? It's har...

About a million spectators watch New York event even as mayor and beer companies stay away over exclusion of gay groups.

A hubbub has erupted over the question of London's dependence on Russian oligarch money, how the UK banking system has grown addicted to such deposits, and how it compromises the West's punitive sanctions against Kremlin...

The singer was arrested last Friday after being kicked out of a Malibu rehab facility

A Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday also showed a sharp racial divide in voters' optimism about New York City's future.