IRBIL, Iraq – Leaders of all the main Iraqi political blocs met Monday for the first time since March elections in a new push to break the eight-month deadlock over forming a new government. Car...

FREEPORT, Maine – A powerful coastal storm packing rain, snow and sleet and wind gusts topping 60 mph knocked power out to tens of thousands of homes and businesses, shut down dozens of schools and slowed...

Indonesia has been consumed by the wrath of Mother Nature and the power that she has unleashed on it as early as December 2004. But recently, a tsunami and a volcano have hit on opposite ends of the country,...

On November 1, Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong of Erie, Pennsylvania was convicted of participating in an unusual heist where a pizza delivery driver was forced to rob a bank while wearing a metal bomb collar...

Last Friday, three more Cuban political prisoners were released and exiled to Spain after over 20 years of being imprisoned. With these prisoners released, the total of released political prisoners in...

NEW YORK – The first Guantanamo detainee to face a civilian trial is a "mass murderer" who played a key role in the terrorist bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998, a prosecutor said Monday...

WASHINGTON – Republicans cast themselves as the anti-Obama and scored a blowout at the polls. Now their real work — repairing the party's still-tattered image and earning voters' trust — begins. It's...

LONDON – Queen Elizabeth II is now on Facebook — but she's not going to be your friend. Britain's queen has launched a series of official pages offering the website's 500 million users daily updates...

PAGO PAGO, American Samoa – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton returned to American soil on Monday after a marathon two-week trip to the Asia-Pacific during which the domestic U.S. political landscape...

KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghan and NATO forces targeted suspected insurgent strongholds in a joint operation in southern Kandahar province, killing 15 and capturing 13, an Afghan official said Monday. NATO...

Have you seen any of the political ads on television lately? It seems that individuals cannot escape the hundreds of advertisements from our candidates and politicians, as everyone is bombarded...

The Associated Press reports that the Obama administration has approved a solar project located on federally owned land in southern California. This comes after a five- year hiatus from the Bureau...

For eight years, New Jersey has tried to protect students from bullying by passing laws that encourage schools to set up anti-bullying programs. Yet with the recent suicide of a Rutgers student,...

The gambling legend of 2010 World Cup Soccer [Futbol], Paul the Octopus, died on Tuesday, October 26, 2010. Paul the Octopus was a common octopus hatched in January 2008 in Weymouth, England, at the Sea...

Forget the alcohol; blame it on the Tourettes. At any rate, that is what attorney John Trevena is saying in defense of his client, 19 year-old Jennifer Mee, who has been arrested and charged with first-degree...