The two package bombs intercepted by authorities in Britain and Dubai last week appear to have been built to detonate “in flight” and to bring down the planes carrying them, President Barack Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser said Sunday.
Opening arguments were set for Monday in the long delayed trial of former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, a once powerful but polarizing Republican politician accused of illegally financing Texas GOP legislative races in 2002.DeLay has been pr…
Republicans are anticipating major gains in governorships across the nation’s industrial heartland and in several vital presidential swing states.
Opening arguments were set for Monday in the long delayed trial of former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, a once powerful but polarizing Republican politician accused of illegally financing Texas GOP legislative races in 2002.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday urged Cambodia to confront its troubled past by ensuring the Khmer Rouge are brought to justice for crimes against humanity in the 1970s and improve its current human rights record.
Democrats believe they can secure their first all-Democratic Senate delegation from Alaska in more than 40 years, with their once-overlooked nominee making a late charge and claiming the momentum is in his favor in a heated three-way contest.
A recent spate of TV blackouts and the lack of government intervention suggests that broadcasters have the upper hand over TV signal providers when it comes to negotiating fees, at least until Congress decides to act.
On the Sunday before Election Day, preachers told black churchgoers across America to get out and vote – and defy predictions that they’ll be complacent or uninterested in a year that President Barack Obama isn’t on the ballot.
In this Nov. 18, 2008 file photo, Ted Sorensen, speech writer and former adviser to John F. Kennedy, speaks in Lincoln, Neb.
PORTLAND, Maine _ Former President Bill Clinton returned to Maine on Sunday to campaign for Democrat Libby Mitchell as she and four other candidates for governor ramped up their get-out-the-vote efforts.
Will Congress extend the Bush tax cuts into 2011 in the weeks after Tuesday’s election or let the automatic increase start cutting into most people’s paychecks early next year? It’s really pretty much up to President Barack Obama.
Pledging to do more to help end the scourge of sexual slavery, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visited a rescue and rehabilitation center for child prostitutes in northern Cambodia on Sunday.
The hand-picked candidate of Brazil’s hugely popular president is poised to replace him as leader of Latin America’s biggest nation when voters case ballots Sunday in a runoff election.
In the shadow of the Capitol and the election, comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert entertained a huge throng Saturday at a “sanity” rally poking fun at the nation’s ill-tempered politics, fear-mongers and doomsayers.
Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba.com has announced that it has launched local customer service business in India to increase its investments in this key marketplace. Alibaba.com stated in a report that its new customer service center, which is opened…