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Marisol Valles, who studies criminology in Mexico's violent city of Ciudad Juarez, took charge of the police force in the neighbouring municipality of Praxedis G. Guerrero near El Paso, Texas, just days before...

Move over Christine O'Donnell and Sarah Palin - here comes Jimmy McMillan. McMillan is running for Governor of New York on "The Rent is Too Damn High Party" ticket.And, he means business. McMillan schooled his ...

Amid the scrum for Chicago's mayoral throne, much less ink has been spilled about the aldermanic races. And judging from a YouTube video released today, one of the more interesting candidates could come from t...

First Lady Michelle Obama returned to her hometown Chicago Wednesday to help raise nearly $400,000 for the state’s Democratic congressional candidates and to cast her early votes for the Democrat seeking to fill her husband’s former Senate seat. “I’m thrilled to be back in my hometown, Chicago,” she told a crowd of 200 donors at Chicago’s University Club attending a fundraiser for Democrat Alexi Giannoulias. “I get to sleep in my own bed tonight.” Giannoulias is vying for President Barack Obama’s old Senate seat, which is currently occupied by Sen. Roland Burris. Burris, who was appointed by controversial ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich, opted not to run for a full term in 2010. Michelle Obama’s swing through Illinois as part of the Democrats' "Blue Illinois 2010" push was her first day on the first real aggressive campaign/fundraising tour she’s been on in the White House. “This is my first day out on the campaign trail,” she said. “This is not something I do very often.”

According to Rush Limbaugh some people are born to be slaves and others self-starters. LIMBAUGH: This is a tough thing to say, because a lot of people don't want to hear this, because it goes against everybody...

A US terror alert issued this week about al-Qaida plots to attack targets in western Europe was politically motivated and not based on credible new information, senior Pakistani diplomats and European intellig...

A government investigator says 89,000 stimulus payments of $250 each went to people who were either dead or in prison. The Social Security Administration's inspector general said in a report Thursday that $18 m...

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) – Countries from around the world pledged Tuesday to pour 11.7 billion dollars into a fight against AIDS and other deadly diseases.UN chief Ban Ki-moon announced the commitment at UN head...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will announce new initiatives to encourage partnerships between private industry and community colleges when he meets with a panel of economic advisers on Monday, U.S. off...

Barack Obama personally apologized to his Guatemalan counterpart for a US-led study conducted in the 1940s, in which hundreds of people in the Latin American state were deliberately infected with sexually-trans...