(Reuters) – Greek police fired water cannon and fought running battles with protesters hurling petrol bombs outside parliament on Wednesday during the biggest rally in over a year against spending cuts the country must...
Voters in Colorado and Washington voted to legalize marijuana on Tuesday, while voters in Oregon voted against a similar initiative. Measure 80 failed in Oregon, largely because female voters soured on the initiative. Washington state voters legalized recreational...
(Reuters) – Both sides called it a generation-defining race for the White House: a choice between Democrat Barack Obama’s brand of government activism and Republican Mitt Romney’s commitment to reducing Washington’s role in Americans’...
After months of furious campaigning by hundreds of candidates, Republicans failed to grab the Senate and Democrats couldn’t make inroads in the House — leaving the balance of power in Congress unchanged. Republicans fell...
The national debt has doubled since 2005 to more than $16 trillion. That’s seven years. The last time it doubled, from $4 trillion to $8 trillion, it took 14 years.
Superstorm Sandy exposed the true nature of the people in its path, bringing out tales of hope and heroism — as well as stories of callous cruelty. Looting, price gouging and misguided rage all...
In a last-minute call to rally religious conservatives to vote, Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan said Sunday night that President Obama is taking the country down a path that threatens the “Judeo-Christian” values...
(Reuters) – By a remote fjord where icebergs float in silence and hunters stalk reindeer, plans are being drawn up for a huge iron ore mine that would lift Greenland’s population by four percent...
The final monthly jobs report before Election Day offered a mixed bag of economic evidence that would surely become political putty for the presidential candidates, with the unemployment rate ticking up to 7.9 percent...
(Reuters) – A Catholic-owned family business in Michigan does not have to comply with the provision of the new U.S. healthcare law that requires private employers to provide employees with health insurance that covers birth control, a federal judge...
