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President Barack Obama visited the Triangle on Monday with some of the nation's leading corporate executives in tow, pledging to find ways to accelerate job growth in an economy …

Defying the Roman Catholic archbishop of Detroit, a priest led a Mass Sunday organized by the American Catholic Council, a controversial umbrella group of liberal Catholics. And dozens of …

Denver - The Supreme Court on Monday upheld ethics laws across the nation that forbid legislators and city council members from voting on matters in which they have a …

Republican candidates for president before a debate at the Sullivan Arena at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, on June 13, 2011. From left: Former Sen. Rick Santorum, …

One of the many tragic stories of the Great Recession involves Jefferson County, Alabama. As Matt Taibbi explained in an article in Rolling Stone last year, mega bank JP …

Gingrich Restarts Presidential Campaign

Washington - The Federal Bureau of Investigation is giving significant new powers to its roughly 14,000 agents, allowing them more leeway to search databases, go through household trash or …

Washington - The Obama administration opens an internal debate this week on the size of a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan amid growing doubts in Congress about the cost and …

A guard from Task Force Peacekeeper closes a gate at the detention facility in Parwan, Afghanistan, on September 22, 2010. (Photo: Adam Ferguson / The New York Times) …

Stencil graffiti of Osama bin Laden in Bucharest, Romania. (Photo: Bixentro / flickr) On the tenth anniversary of 9/11, just as he has done in years past, …