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Congressional leaders and President Barack Obama reached an eleventh hour budget deal on Friday night, to fund the government for the rest of the 2011 fiscal year and avert …

A president, being the most powerful man in the world, begins history anew -- so at least Americans pretend to believe.

Back in July, federal district court judge Susan Bolton imposed a preliminary injunction on parts of the controversial immigration law passed by Arizona last year, SB-1070. She enjoined provisions …

Austin - The records of about 3.5 million people, including Social Security numbers, were erroneously placed on a public computer server at the Texas Comptroller’s Office and remained there …

(Photo: mirimcfly) Have you heard the one about the CEO who sits down to eat with two workers, one male and one female? The table holds a …

Naomi Matsura, right, and her aunt Shizuko Hoshi, look for her belongings amid the debris of her home left by the tsunami that followed the March 11 earthquake, in …

A version of this story was co-published with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. For years C. Alan Walker, a coal industry mogul and wealthy donor to Pennsylvania's Republican Party, …

In an electoral system corrupted by money, media, and parties, the US people are offered a choice every four years between two hideously awful candidates for an office that …

Libyan opposition leaders on Monday rejected an African Union “road map” for making peace with Moammar Gadhafi, saying that nothing short of the strongman's immediate resignation would satisfy them. …

Washington - Far-right Republicans are winning the budget wars because they understand something that nobody else in Washington seems to grasp: The old truism about politics being the art …