Some major cracks have emerged in the “Tea Party” movement’s leadership. In October, Amy Kremer, a founder and top staffer for the Tea Party Patriots (whose activists swarmed health care town halls last summer) was forced out of the...

When US President Barack Obama visits China this weekend, he will encounter a rival that sees the financial crisis as more of an opportunity than a threat. America, on the other hand, has been fundamentally weakened by the global crunch — and is...

According to a study released by the Harvard Medical School, 2,266 veterans under the age of 65 died last year as a result of not having health insurance. Researchers emphasize that “that figure is more than 14 times the number of deaths (155)...

Prosecutor Michael Loucks remembers clearly when lawyers for Pfizer Inc., the world’s largest drug company, looked across the table and promised it wouldn’t break the law again. It was January 2004, and the attorneys were negotiating in a...

U.S. and Sierra Leone government officials have agreed to re-establish a Peace Corps program in Sierra Leone after a 15-year absence, the Peace Corps said Monday. Glenn Fedzer, the charge d’affaires for the U.S. Embassy in Freetown, and Sierra...

Maine residents will have their say Tuesday in the nationwide debate over gay marriage. Voters there will decide whether or not to uphold a law that was signed in May allowing gay couples to legally wed. If they accept the measure, Maine would become to...

A Dallas mother wants to change an obscure Texas law that allows parents to show their young children hardcore pornography. Crystal Buckner claims her ex-husband made their two little girls watch graphic sex videos, but Buckner says the law protects...

Sixty pimps were arrested during the three-day operation in 36 cities, said the FBI, adding that a total of 700 people were held over the investigation. The arrests are the latest in a long-running Operation Cross Country aimed at breaking child...

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) predicted on Sunday that health care reform would pass, while a fellow Republican senator was more skeptical. Appearing on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” McCain said that the man he battled for the presidency in...

The fierce fight over same-sex marriage in California and elsewhere is creating pressure to recognize a new free-speech right that could keep petition signatures secret. The Supreme Court voted last week to block release of the names of more than...