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Politico's Jake Sherman captures this bit of teeth-gnashing from Rep. Mike Simpson (R-ID) about the GOP's plan to deliver a budget that will achieve...

A giant asteroid as wide as a football field is set to zoom past the region Friday afternoon at 37,000 mph with no evidence of its presence here on...

Citing advanced years and infirmity, Pope Benedict XVI stunned the Roman Catholic world on Monday by saying that he would resign on Feb. 28 after...

A quarter of a million Twitter users have had their accounts compromised in the latest of a string of high-profile internet security breaches. ...

National Rifle Association leader Wayne LaPierre said on Sunday that despite what pro-gun control politicians say or have written in draft...

A recent study by the Center for Public Religion has found that nearly 3 out of every 10 Americans believes that God decides the outcome of sporting...

Former New York Mayor Ed Koch, who led the nation's biggest city for three terms in the late 1970s and '80s, died Friday in a Manhattan hospital. ...

Flames raced through a crowded nightclub in southern Brazil early Sunday, killing more than 230 people as panicked partygoers stampeded toward a...

When Hillary Clinton postponed testifying before Congress on the Benghazi terrorist attacks due to illness, conspiracy theories popped up on the...

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant (R) doesn't like President Barack Obama's health care reform law. It's too expensive and too intrusive, he says. And...

The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to raise the nation's debt ceiling by an unspecified amount, suspending the federal government's...

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta is lifting the military ban on women in combat, allowing them to officially serve on the front lines for the first...

Students ducked under desks and ran for cover during a shooting at a community college in Texas on Tuesday that left three people wounded. "I just...

Virginia Democrats are raising hell after Republicans unexpectedly rammed a controversial redistricting bill through the state Senate on Monday,...

Sen. Harry Reid needs to wrap up Senate rules reform, and also wants to achieve some kind of bipartisan agreement. You'd think by now he'd recognize...

When it comes to long-time NRA board member Ted Nugent talking about people who hate America and hate freedom, it takes one to know one. Via Media...

Where’s Fred Flintstone when you need him? A professor of genetics at Harvard’s Medical School believes he’s capable of bringing the long-extinct...

If Mars once contained life, it might have existed in watery oases far beneath the surface, according to a new study analyzing a deep Martian crater...