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Seoul, South Korea - Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta on Wednesday called North Korea a “serious threat” and told American and South Korean troops here that they were on …

Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, in a plea for domestic support hours before European leaders are scheduled to hold a crisis summit, beseeched lawmakers Wednesday to back measures to …

New York - Beaten. Chained to walls. Exposed to extreme temperatures. Deprived of food, water and sleep. Hassan bin Attash, Sami el- Hajj, Muhammed Khan Tumani and Murat Kurnaz …

Former Massachusetts Governor and presidential front-runner Mitt Romney — once a candidate who stood up to coal and supported clean energy — is now calling green jobs fake. …

9:48 a.m. | Updated Riot police in Oakland dispersed hundreds of protesters with tear gas on Tuesday night as crowds tried to re-enter a plaza outside of City Hall …

Raleigh, N.C. - A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the most controversial part of North Carolina's abortion-restriction law, which goes into effect Wednesday: the requirement that patients be presented …

The Congressional Budget Office today released a new report on the growth in income that’s occurred in the U.S. over the last three decades. CBO found that, “for the …

The conservative campaign against worker rights is losing in Ohio, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. Support for the repeal of SB 5, the law …

Washington - Minority voters have long had problems simply exercising their right to vote in certain parts of the country — and minority lawmakers fear the situation will become …

Washington - When Mona Kareem, a member of the Bidoun population of Kuwait, was 11 years old, a neighbour Kuwaiti woman asked her where she was from. When Kareem …