A man who left his Presbyterian ministry in California more than 20 years ago after telling his congregation that he is gay was welcomed back into...
The FBI by mid-January will activate a nationwide facial recognition service in select states that will allow local police to identify unknown subjects in photos, bureau...
Rules for radicals? Weeks after taking to the streets in Manhattan, Occupy Wall St demonstrators are camped a block from the White House. Many of them...
A new poverty-stricken Muppet will highlight the issue of hunger struggles on an episode of "Sesame Street", the show said in a statement on Tuesday. Pink-faced...
Security and rescue forces were on high alert and deployed in large numbers in Jerusalem and throughout the West Bank for Yom Kippur, which begins Friday...
American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior government officials, which then informs the president...
The world is facing the worst financial crisis since at least the 1930s “if not ever”, the Governor of the Bank of England said last night....
Palestine won a first diplomatic victory in its quest for statehood on Wednesday when the UNESCO executive committee backed its bid to become a member of...
Representatives from some of the most powerful labor unions in the country have arrived to march alongside the protesters, and students from New York universities joined...
Syrian President Bashar Assad on Tuesday threatened to set fire to the Middle East, and especially to Israel, if NATO attacks Syria, the Iranian Fars news...
Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said he wants to bring ex-Soviet states into a "Eurasian Union" in an article which outlined his first foreign policy initiative...
Outside the U.S. government, President Obama's order to kill American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki without due process has proved controversial, with experts in law and war reaching...
The protests against corporate America, which began in New York City two weeks ago, have spread across the country, with demonstrations occurring in Los Angeles, Boston,...
U.S. officials have met members of the Muslim Brotherhood's political party, a U.S. diplomat said, after Washington announced it would have direct contacts with Egypt's biggest...
New York City police are bracing for a weekend of mayhem in lower Manhattan with thousands expected to risk arrest as the Occupy Wall Street protest...
There has not appeared a current standout for the conservatives presidential field, all eyes are now on Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R). Perry, who has...
In its quest to promote taxpayer-funded entitlement programs, the Obama Administration has actually rewarded one state with a $5 million bonus for its efficiency in adding...
Anwar al-Aulaqi, a radical U.S.-born Muslim cleric and one of the most influential al-Qaeda leaders wanted by the United States, was killed Friday in a U.S....
Despite the growing Solyndra scandal, yesterday the Department of Energy approved $1 billion in new loans to green energy companies -- including a $737 million loan...
Youcef Nadarkhani, an Iranian pastor who faces execution for refusing to recant his Christian faith.Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, who maintains he has never been a Muslim as...
A bizarre Bible-thumping heckler called President Obama "the Antichrist" as the Secret Servicedragged him out of a presidential fund-raiser Monday. The bearded young man, identified by...
The five Dead Sea Scrolls that have been digitized thus far include the Great Isaiah Scroll, the Community Rule Scroll, the Commentary on Habakkuk Scroll, the...
Thousands of Palestinians cheering and waving flags gave President Mahmoud Abbas a hero's welcome in the West Bank Sunday, as he told them triumphantly a "Palestinian...
A Tweet on Nasa's official Twitter account said 'Re-entry prediction now later than expected - tonight or late Saturday morning,' at just before noon Eastern Time....
