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The race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination heated up this weekend as Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann won the Iowa straw poll and Texas Gov. Rick Perry formally announced …

In today's On the News segment: Rick Perry uses violent rhetoric in his campaign for president, World Bank warns of another food crisis, Democratic Congressmen Kucinich and Michaud try …

As the eurozone authorities move closer to accepting the inevitable Greek debt default/restructuring, there are some who have pointed to the Jamaican debt restructuring of last year as a …

When the discussion has moved so far to the right that Reagan would be a centrist Democrat today, you know you’re in trouble. Against all facts and …

BP's Endicott oil and gas facility at the edge of the Beaufort Sea in Alaska. Shell Oil wants to drill dozens of miles offshore in federal waters. (Photo: Damon …

There are several good steps the United States could adopt to stimulate the US economy that would not involve adding to the deficit or national debt.

The disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan is still unfolding five months later, with multiple meltdowns and significant radiation releases contaminating communities and farms downwind from …

Ismailia, Egypt - For 26 years, Mohammed Gharib Abdullah has been proud to be a mechanic at the Timsah Shipbuilding Company on the Suez Canal, a symbol of Egyptian …

Johannesburg, South Africa - As Somalia's drought and famine worsened in recent months, the Shabab militia in the south seized families' crops and livestock and imposed taxes that made …