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President Obama's national security adviser demanded Sunday that Pakistan let American investigators interview Osama bin Laden's three widows, adding new pressure in a relationship now fraught over how Bin …

Trying to tap into the spontaneity of Twitter and Facebook, the former House speaker Newt Gingrich will announce his campaign for the Republican nomination for president on Wednesday by …

(Photo: toastforbrekkie / flickr) I underwent a fundamental change in who I am the day my first child was born almost 16 years ago. Being a mother …

Shoppers at Target in West Nyack, New York. (Photo: Fred R. Conrad / The New York Times) The battle of the “swipe fees” has been hard to …

Edward Pyles (pictured) and his son, E.J., four, take shelter at Jerry Belk Activity Center, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, April 30, 2011. The two were displaced by the fatal storms …

Laura Moye is director of the Amnesty International USA Death Penalty Abolition Campaign. In this interview, Moye talks about 42-year-old Troy Davis, an African American who has been on …

This week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency formalized its Haitian deportation policy. ICE claims it will consider medical and humanitarian factors when deciding whether to deport someone to …

It's tempting to expect perfection from those we admire, but we romanticize lone heroes at our peril. A few years before one-time supporter Jon Krakauer challenged the truthfulness of …

Barack Obama and top administration officials have taken advantage of the killing of Osama bin Laden to establish a new narrative suggesting the event will pave the way for …