As the violence in Syria spirals out of control, top officials in President Barack Obama's administration are quietly preparing options for how to assist the Syrian...
Buried within the enormous 2009 stimulus bill were provisions encouraging states to develop data systems for collecting copious information on public-school kids. To qualify for stimulus...
What starts with Charlie saying, ”I’m so depressed. I think I’m losing my faith in Christianity,” ends with the beloved character in hell awaiting 72 virgins....
Comedian Bill Maher drew the ire of Tim Tebow fans and Christians over the weekend after a profane tweet reveling in the Broncos' blowout loss to...
The Obama White House plans to ask Congress for an increase in the debt limit before the end of the week, according to a senior Treasury...
Iran's navy has started a 10-day drill in international waters near the strategic oil route that passes through the Strait of Hormuz. The exercises, dubbed "Velayat...
Iran stands ready to expand its military and security ties with Iraq, its armed forces chief of staff said Sunday, a week after the exit of...
A rare clay seal found under Jerusalem's Old City appears to be linked to religious rituals practiced at the Jewish Temple 2,000 years ago, Israeli archaeologists...
A Navy tradition caught up with the repeal of the U.S. military's "don't ask, don't tell" rule on Wednesday when two women sailors became the first...
Technology colossus IBM on Monday depicted a near future in which machines read minds and recognize who they are dealing with. "IBM scientists are among those...
Only 52 weeks and a day are left before Dec. 21, 2012, when some believe the Maya predicted the end of the world. Unlike enthusiasts of...
I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president — with the possible exceptions of Johnson, F.D.R., and...
The Pepsico corporation has nixed a special Diet Pepsi can design after customers complained that it invoked the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center,...
Scientists who developed a deadly strain of bird flu to help create vaccines have been told their research is a terrorist threat. Dutch researchers have for...
Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal said Monday that he and his investment firm, Kingdom Holding Company, are purchasing a $300 million stake in Twitter. The billionaire...
Up to 5,000 people joined a rally on Saturday in support of a Nativity scene in Texas that a Wisconsin-based atheist group wanted to take down....
BREAKING NEWS: North Korean leader Kim Jong Il dies at 69. Kim's death was announced tonight by state television from the North Korean capital, Pyongyang.
All in the name of the moon god Allah. Islam hates women. They wrap them in black cloth from head to toe, they abuse them, they...
If only Obama could generate as much enthusiasm and believability in wishing people a Merry Christmas as the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu can. America...
Muslim congressman Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., embarked on a 24-hour hunger strike in solidarity with four Occupy DC protesters who have gone without food since Dec....
The White House is signing off on a controversial new law that would authorize the U.S. military to arrest and indefinitely detain alleged al Qaeda members...
By signing the bill Obama would go down in history as the president who enshrined indefinite detention without trial in US law. "We're talking about American...
Rahm Emanuel is asking the aldermen to give him temporary authority to close all of the city’s parks, playgrounds and beaches at 11 p.m. during the...
A commercial satellite operator says it has captured a rare image of China's first aircraft carrier as it sailed through the Yellow Sea, after going through...