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Jerusalem - Demonstrators filled the streets of Israel's largest cities Saturday night to protest the country's high cost of living, winding down a summer-long movement that has fizzled in …

Demonstrators march in support of the California DREAM Act on May 1, 2009. (Photo: Faultybox) The California state Assembly voted Friday to send Gov. Jerry Brown a …

Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian envoy to the United Nations, is seen through a video camera during a Security Council meeting at the U.N. in New York, July 26, 2011. …

Uxbridge, Canada - With four times as many oil rigs pumping domestic oil today than eight years ago and declining domestic demand, the United States is awash in oil. …

(Photo: United States Marine Corps / Flickr) John Fisher got his soul back when he visited a cemetery in Greece. Shelley Corteville felt “rocketed” …

Workers at Sun Zone Solar Power Inc., in Changsha, China, on September 3, 2010. (Photo: Timothy O'Rourke / The New York Times) Hong Kong - The bankruptcies …

Walid Musbah, a self-proclaimed fighter loyal to Col. Moammar Gadhafi, in the custody of rebels near Gadhafi's Bab al-Aziziya compound, in Tripoli, Libya, Sept. 2, 2011. (Photo: Moises Saman …

Federal regulators filed suit on Friday against more than a dozen leading banks, seeking billions in compensation for huge losses suffered by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on mortgage-backed …

Washington — The Obama administration is abandoning its plan to immediately tighten air-quality rules nationwide to reduce emissions of smog-causing chemicals after an intense lobbying campaign by industry, which …

Washington - Politicians and business groups often blame excessive regulation and fear of higher taxes for tepid hiring in the economy. However, little evidence of that emerged when McClatchy …