Politics

Honduran congress dismisses Supreme Court justices
Honduras' political standoff escalated Wednesday as legal officials debated whether a congressional vote to remove four Supreme Court justices ...
NJ Gov. Christie: My weight no bar to presidency
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says he is "more than a little" overweight — but fit enough to be in the White House. The Republican governor was asked ...
Census: Whites no longer a majority in US by 2043
White people will no longer make up a majority of Americans by 2043, according to new census projections. That's part of a historic shift that already ...
Senate intern, a sex offender, faces deportation
Sen. Robert Menendez employed as an unpaid intern in his Senate office an illegal immigrant who was a registered sex offender, now under arrest by ...
US, Syria opposition disagree over terrorist label
The U.S. and the head of the new Syrian opposition coalition being feted at a conference in Morocco Wednesday publicly disagreed over designating a ...
Iraq stays execution of man allegedly held at 16
Iraq has suspended the execution of a Yemeni prisoner whose family claims was 16 years old when he was taken into custody, an Iraqi official and human ...
Pfizer to pay $55 million in drug misbranding case
The Justice Department says Pfizer Inc. will pay $55 million to resolve allegations that its subsidiary Wyeth LLC promoted the drug Protonix for uses ...
Leading Democrat calls foreign aid system outmoded
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Blast at Syrian regime building in capital kills 5
Three bombs collapsed walls in the Syrian Interior Ministry building Wednesday in Damascus, killing at least five people, as rebels fighting to ...
Lieberman urges compromise in final Senate speech
Retiring Sen. Joe Lieberman on Wednesday used his final Senate floor speech to urge Congress to put partisan rancor aside to break Washington's ...
THE RESET: Fed forges ahead with easy-money policy
As President Barack Obama and Congress agonize over strengthening the economy without fattening the $16 trillion national debt, the Federal Reserve ...
Obama to match FDR's record of 4 swearing-ins
President Barack Obama is poised to match Franklin Roosevelt's record of being sworn in as the nation's leader four times. While FDR served four ...
Obama's fiscal cliff strategy is tricky balance
Playing both sides, President Barack Obama is trying to balance his public pressure campaign on Republicans over the looming "fiscal cliff" with his ...
After Sandy, NYC eyes moving power gear higher
A major push is on to move New York City's electrical infrastructure to higher ground or upper floors after Superstorm Sandy sent seawater pouring ...
AP source: no prior record for 22-year-old suspect
A law enforcement official says the suspect in the Oregon mall shootings is 22 years old and has no prior criminal record. The official spoke only on ...
Mich. becomes right-to-work state despite protests
In a dizzyingly short time span, Republicans have converted Michigan from a seemingly impregnable fortress of organized labor into a right-to-work ...
Panetta in Afghanistan to meet with Karzai
President Barack Obama will decide shortly how many U.S. troops he wants to keep in Afghanistan after the U.S.-led coalition military mission ends in ...
Egypt court gives Christian 3 years for blasphemy
A Cairo court on Wednesday convicted a Coptic Christian blogger who shared an anti-Islam film on social networking sites and sentenced him to three ...
AP Interview: Romanian PM certain of reappointment
Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta should feel like his political battles will become much easier, after his center-left alliance won a sweeping ...
'Purple tunnel of doom' to be closed for inaugural
Inaugural security teams are trying to prevent another "purple tunnel of doom" from President Barack Obama's first swearing-in. The head of the ...
Mandela's fading presence worries South Africa
As South Africa's governing party moves closer to picking its next leader, it will do so without the man widely viewed as the country's moral compass.
Russian opposition activist may be sent to Siberia
A jailed Russian opposition activist who claims he was kidnapped and tortured will remain in custody and may be sent to Siberia as part of a ...
Kuwait names new government with no major changes
Kuwait's ruler has named a new Cabinet that makes no major changes in membership and reinstates the finance minister who resigned earlier this year ...
Drivers: Kenyan traffic laws increase bribe size
Traffic bribes are a way of life for many Kenyan drivers. One dollar here, $5 there. But the drivers of the rowdy minibuses known as matatus say that ...
Rebels in Central African Republic take 3 towns
A rebel group that signed a peace accord with the government of the Central African Republic announced Wednesday that it had taken three towns in the ...