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Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi. (Photo: Gage Skidmore / Flickr) Salt Lake City — The rancorous debate in Washington over whether to raise the federal debt ceiling …

Istanbul - The United States formally recognized the rebel leadership in Libya as the country’s legitimate government on Friday. The move, made at an international gathering here to discuss …

Australian billionaire Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has been at the center of an explosive scandal as it has been revealed that a few of his publications hacked into the …

The big question looming over US-Iraqi negotiations on a US military presence after 2011 is what game Shi'a leader Moqtada al-Sadr is playing on the issue. …

Marcus Bachmann is finally speaking out about allegations that his Christian counseling clinics, Bachmann & Associates, perform "pray away the gay" therapy that instructs gay clients that they can …

The governor of Minnesota and the state's Republican lawmakers announced on Thursday that they had, at last, reached a deal on the state's budget, bringing what is expected to …

(Photo: Amanda Slater / Flickr) As part of its expanding counterterrorism program in Somalia, the CIA also uses a secret prison buried in the basement of Somalia’s …

California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation requiring public schools to teach students about the contributions of gay and lesbian people, making California the first state to adopt such …

David H. Koch, one of the billionaire brothers who runs Koch Industries, at the Lincoln Center in New York, in this July 9, 2008 file photo. (Photo: Robert Caplin …

Media reform activists recently won several crucial victories in the battle to free the nation's radio channels from corporate control and, thanks to their efforts, grassroots groups across the …