President Barack Obama is sending Congress a $3.73 trillion spending blueprint that pledges $1.1 trillion in deficit savings over the next decade through spending cuts and tax increases. Obama’s...

Russia and the U.S. activated a new arms control treaty earlier this month, but Russia is already reconsidering its participation. After months of difficult negotiations both at home and abroad,...

With the Grammys this past weekend, celebrations were widespread for winners. But the award for having the worst week goes to Republican representative Chris Lee, according to the Washington Post....

Three residents from New York attended a wedding in the Dominican Republic in January, and have come back showing classic symptoms of cholera upon their return. These are the first known cases since the...

With over 33 million global cases, the AIDS virus claims thousands of lives each day. In response, the Vatican will host an international conference in May of 2011 regarding the prevention of AIDS and...

Instead of leaving office on his scheduled departure date of February 7, Haitian President Rene Preval will stay in power for another three months as Haiti finally selects a successor in an election...

The Ford Motor Company is planning to add another shift to increase their factory production. This will increase production 13 percent in the first quarter allowing the production of more cars due...

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s vice president met a wide representation of major opposition groups for the first time Sunday and agreed to allow freedom of the press, to release those detained since anti-government...

PHOENIX – Rep. Gabrielle Giffords can walk while holding onto a cart, mouth the lyrics to easy songs and have simple conversations, according to family, staff and her doctors. Mark Kelly said in an...

BRUSSELS – NATO was not impressed by Russia's military performance after two large maneuvers in 2009 because its forces relied on aging equipment, lacked transport and suffered from manpower shortages,...

ATLANTA – A death row inmate's federal lawsuit claims Georgia's stockpile of a key lethal injection drug has expired, and he's asking a judge to halt an execution he says may cause him to die in excruciating...

Imagine no internet access, no television news channels, no cell phone service, and the launch of a national curfew. Although this may seem a bit daunting, this is just a fragment of what Egypt...

Last Wednesday, February 2, the Northeast region was hit by a snowstorm causing school and work cancelations, traffic delays, parking emergencies, roughly a foot of snow, and a general inconvenience...

Cyclone Yasi began as a tropical low throughout Australia, which brought wild storms and flash flooding throughout the northeastern and now southern parts of the continent. Yasi was active over central...

Iran wants Sarah Shourd back. The American woman captured in Iran will have to come back to the very country that detained her to stand trial on February 6 alongside Shane Bauer, her fiancé, and Joshua...