Obama draws contrast with GOP on immigration, urging pathway to citizenship...
President Obama drew one of his sharpest contrasts with Republicans at Tuesday night's State of the Union address when he called for Congress to pass legislation giv...
Obama speech echoes in town with failed factory
After 19 years running state unemployment offices across northern Missouri, Steve Moore can rattle off the names of shuttered factories in this old railroad town wit...
Paterno funeral scheduled for Wednesday
Former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno will be laid to rest Wednesday at a private funeral and burial service after thousands of mourners lined up to say goodb...
‘We’ve come too far to turn back,’ Obama says in State of...
With an unfinished legislative agenda from last year and with Election Day nine months from now, President Barack Obama went before a joint session of Congress Tuesd...
Obama Urges Tougher Laws on Financial Fraud
President Obama called on Congress Tuesday to toughen laws against securities fraud and to strengthen the ability of the Securities and Exchange Commission to punish...
Obama outlines ‘mission’ of rebuilding American dream, as hurdl...
President Obama suggested Tuesday that Americans try to follow the lead of U.S. military forces and get past personal ambition and partisan obsession to "focus on th...
Obama stands by energy initiatives amid GOP criticism
President Obama refused to back off his support for clean energy initiatives in his State of the Union address, pushing back against some of Republicans' fiercest po...
Obama to Republicans: Game on
President Barack Obama delivered an election-year broadside to Republicans: Game on. The GOP, from Congress to the campaign trail, signaled it's ready for the fig...
U.S. raid frees two hostages in Somalia
U.S. helicopters swooped into central Somalia on Wednesday and rescued two hostages, an American and a Dane, from pirates in a rare raid into the Horn of Africa nati...
Obama Pledges To Build ‘An Economy To Last’
Barack Obama has delivered what could be his final State of the Union address to the American people promising to build "an economy to last". In a speech to both ...
Melbourne museum reports stolen painting, 12 years after it went missing
The National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, one of Australia's leading art galleries, has reported the theft of a painting by British landscape artist Richard Par...
Qaddafi loyalists take over Bani Walid
Muammar Qaddafi loyalists seized control of a Libyan city and raised the ousted regime's green flag, an official and commander said Tuesday, in the most serious revo...
Australian Q4 CPI unchanged, increasing expectations of rate cut
THE consumer price index (CPI) was unchanged in the fourth quarter of 2011 from the third quarter and up 3.1 per cent on a year earlier, the Australian Bureau of Sta...
Cardiff 1 – 0 Crystal Palace (agg 1 – 1)
Cardiff City keeper Tom Heaton proved the penalty shoot-out hero to inspire the Bluebirds to the Carling Cup final. Heaton saved Crystal Palace's first two penalt...
Apple has 4th most profitable quarter in history of Earth
Today, Apple announced it's Q1 result for 2012, bringing in record profits which surpass anything the company has ever seen. The Cupertino giant reported revenue of ...
Lawsuit Seeks Records From Toyota Investigation
Concerned that regulators are dismissing electronic problems in Toyota vehicles, an auto safety firm said Tuesday that it had sued the federal government to get reco...
WikiLeaks: rights to Julian Assange chat show bought by Russian TV
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has chosen a Kremlin-bankrolled satellite TV channel known for its relentless anti-Western propaganda to broadcast his new talk show...
Study: Magic mushrooms may help treat depression
Psychedelic mushrooms may point to new ways to treat depression, suggest two small brain imaging studies that seem to show how psilocybin -- the active ingredient in...
Biggest Solar Storm in Eight Years Now Pummeling Earth
Earth is currently weathering the largest solar storm recorded in more than eight years, thanks to a giant wave of charged particles from the sun that slammed into t...
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The day after the last U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq, I arrived in Baghdad to explore the country they left behind. It was Dec. 19, 2011, the same day that Prime Mi...
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