In a stunning announcement, Gov. Sarah Palin said Friday morning she will resign her office in a few weeks. Speculation has swirled for weeks, perhaps months that Palin would not seek re-election in 2010 as she pursues a political career on the national stage. The former vice presidential candida...

The Israel Air Force will review the possibility of purchasing the advanced American F-22 fifth-generation stealth fighter jet if a congressional ban is lifted, enabling it to be sold abroad, defense officials told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.

Afshin, a shopkeeper from south-west Iran, alleges that one of his friends was beaten and repeatedly raped after being arrested at an opposition rally after last month's disputed election. He gave this account to Esfandiar Poorgiv, a journalist and academic. It is published here as part of the Guard...

With concerns rising about a possible North Korean long-range missile test this weekend, two independent scientists say the regime may be using an old Soviet ballistic missile to boost a rocket capable of reaching the West Coast of the United States.

Rush Limbaugh is suggesting that President Barack Obama and his political operatives already are laying the groundwork for a third term. “You have to wonder if Obama is just trying to lay a foundation for not being a hypocrite when he tries to serve beyond 2016,” Limbaugh told his national radio...

Three people have been killed in religious rioting in southern India between Muslims and Hindus, police said Friday. Widespread violence broke out in Mysore Thursday after somebody threw a dead pig into the compound of an under-construction mosque, city police commissioner Sunil Agarwal told CNN.

A 19-year-old man was confirmed today as the first person in London to die after contracting swine flu. The teenager, from Lewisham, south London, died on Wednesday after complaining of flu-like symptoms. It is understood he was already seriously ill with a rare long-term health condition whic...

After a long hiatus, the Israeli Navy has returned to sailing through the Suez Canal, recently sending one of its advanced Dolphin-class submarines through the waterway to participate in naval maneuvers off the Eilat coast in the Red Sea.

U.S. missile defenses are prepared to try to knock down the last stage of a Taepodong-2 missile that North Korea is expected soon to launch if sensors detect the weapon threatens U.S. territory, the commander of the U.S. Northern Command told The Washington Times.

Perhaps it should have been called "Pimp my newspaper." For a steep price, the Washington Post planned to invite lobbyists to the home of the paper's CEO and publisher, Katherine Weymouth, to hobnob with Obama administration officials, members of Congress and even the paper's own working reporter...

Janet Jackson speaks publicly, for the first time, about the death of her brother Michael

Saddam Hussein believed Iran was a significant threat to Iraq and left open the possibility that he had weapons of mass destruction rather than appear vulnerable, according to declassified FBI documents on interrogations of the former Iraqi leader. "Hussein believed that Iraq could not appear wea...

Pakistan's top Taliban leader, Baitullah Mehsud, is buying children as young as 7 to serve as suicide bombers in the growing spate of attacks against Pakistani, Afghan and U.S. targets, U.S. Defense Department and Pakistani officials say. A Pakistani official, who spoke on the condition that he n...

The New York Times is covering President Obama's health care town hall-style meeting today in Northern Virginia rather credulously. This is the orchestrated political event that will feature a hand-picked audience and pre-screened questions about Obama's health care plan for the nation.

European diplomats were considering whether to withdraw the ambassadors of all 27 European Union member nations from Iran in a dispute over the detention of the British Embassy's local personnel, The New York Times reported Wednesday.

Following a testy exchange during Wednesday’s briefing with White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas told CNSNews.com that not even Richard Nixon tried to control the press the way President Obama is trying to control the press.

As ACORN targeted four financial companies in 14 cities Tuesday, ACORN official Austin King and I had a spirited mini-debate on Fox News about the nation’s foreclosure crisis. King, who organized the protests, argued that ACORN had warned policy makers years ago about the approaching meltdown.

Simple stories can become difficult for journalists in Russia, as new rules and restrictions go into place. An AP cameraman found that out on assignment this week.

Check out this promotional video from rehearsals for Michael Jackson's 'This Is It' tour.

An Iranian-Canadian reporter arrested in Tehran last week admitted his election coverage was biased in favour of the opposition, an Iranian government-linked news agency reported Tuesday.

Yesterday's decision by the Supreme Court to reverse Sonia Sotomayor's ruling on the New Haven firefighters case was undoubtedly a blow (albeit, not fatal) to the woman who aspires to sit on the nations' highest court.

After Iran's Guardian Council announced Tuesday that the election case was closed following a recount of the contested June 12 vote which left incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in power, opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi said he considered Iran's cleric-led government "illegitimate," and f...

NASCAR has confirmed suspended driver Jeremy Mayfield tested positive for methamphetamines. The confirmation from NASCAR spokesman Ramsey Poston came Wednesday after Mayfield's attorney mentioned the illegal substance several times during a 45-minute argument against the suspension.

It would be a massive harmonic political convergence if Arab nations decided to join forces with Israel to contain Iran and its push for greater regional power. The idea is steadily being pushed by Israeli officials who see a unique window of opportunity.

President George H.W. Bush lost the presidency because he broke his 1988 campaign pledge: “read my lips: no new taxes.” Now President Obama is as blatantly poised to disregard his most fundamental campaign promise: “if you make less than $250,000 your taxes will not go up. Not one dime.”

A missed deadline worsened California's budget crisis Wednesday by $2 billion - and now, the fiscal hole will deepen by millions each day that a solution is not passed.

In the latest in a recent series of increased American assistance efforts for Arab and Muslim states, U.S. President Barack Obama has allocated an additional $150 million to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The regimes leading Egypt, the Palestinian Authority, the United Arab Emirates and even Saudi...

Iraq's government approved a deal in which a BP-led group will develop its Rumaila oilfield, but rejected parallel bids from other companies for further fields because the firms wanted fees that were too high, a spokesman said on Wednesday.

Michigan returned 62 sex offenders to prison in the past week after they were mistakenly released because of glitch in how psychologists determined their treatment plans, authorities said.

Barack Obama told a Virginia crowd today that the Stimulus Bill is working and has done its job. Unreal...