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...

Two Justice Department officials said prosecutors will be told it is not a good use of their time to arrest people who use or provide medical marijuana in strict compliance with state laws. The new policy is a significant departure from the Bush...

Chris Schauerman, of Honeoye Falls, said he noticed one of his chickens appeared ill one day last week. The hen, named Roberta, died later that night but not before it had laid six eggs, including one that was two and a half times the normal size.

Despite being branded some of the world’s worst lovers in a survey of over 15,000 women, us Brits will no doubt be able to find some consolation in the fact German men are even worse.

President Robert Mugabe has accused the West of using “filthy clandestine divisive antics” to undermine Zimbabwe’s power-sharing government. He again called for sanctions to be lifted, saying they were “ruining the lives of our...