Romney Begins Vice Presidential Search With his Republican rivals either out of the race or low on money, Mitt Romney now seems to be on a glide path toward the Republican presidential nomination. Romney is increasingly turning his attention to Presi...
Play Ball - Songs About the 'Great American Pastime' Its not uncommon for musicians to play a concert in the outfield of a baseball stadium-but how about scheduling tour dates around baseball? After all, why visit Boston when the Red Sox are out of t...
In America, Even States Get Nicknames Every U.S. state has a nickname - sometimes more than one. Many are logical. They just sort of evolved. Of course, Arizona is The Grand Canyon State, and Kentucky, home to the lush horse country where magnificent...
Le galize Drugs, Says Former British Spy Chief Ciudad Juarez on the U.S.-Mexico border - a frontline in the global war on drugs. Mexican authorities recently intercepted this haul of weapons and ammunition, destined for the drug gangs that make this...
Satellite Images Show Oil Pipeline Damage in Heglig New satellite imagery indicates recent clashes between Sudanese and South Sudanese forces have severely damaged a key oil pipeline. The Satellite Sentinel Project focused its cameras on the disputed...
New Documentary 'Marley' Centers on Reggae Superstar Director Kevin MacDonald starts his film at the source: the ramshackle village house where Bob Marley was born in 1945. With rare glimpses of his formative years and unprecedented interviews with f...
US Supreme Court to Review Immigration Law Alhassanne Foungounou plays his guitar and sings of liberation on YouTube. Foungounou requested asylum in the United States when his Tuareg protest songs angered the Niger government. But Foungounou returned...
US Secret Service Maintains Dual Mission - Investigations, Protection U.S. Secret Service agents are credited with saving President Ronald Reagan's life during an assassination attempt in 1981. Day in and day out, Secret Service agents and uniformed...
Secret Service Scandal Continues to Shake Washington As photos surfaced of one of the Colombian women allegedly involved, other details also have emerged - including the identities of two agents ousted so far from the agency. David Chaney and Greg St...
Florida Man Accused of Killing Unarmed Teenager Released from Jail George Zimmerman appeared in court not only to seek his release as he awaits trail - he used the opportunity to apologize to the dead boy's parents who attended the proceedings. I wan...
New York Draws on Sun's Energy New York City has long been known as a place of grit and grime. But Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants the Big Apple to be known for its green values and its increasing reliance on clean forms of energy, such as solar power....
Panetta Reaches Out to Latin American Partners It is a region that is often out of U.S. headlines. But now, the worry that drug and human smuggling networks in the area may turn into a terrorist corridor is driving U.S. leaders to point their attenti...
More Malians Flee to Mauritania Theres a growing number of Malian refugees in neighboring Mauritania. Most are being taken to a camp about 30 kilometers from the border. However, a medical aid group says theres an increasing demand at the camp for cl...
'One Day on Earth' Delivers Global Message One Day on Earth, a film created by Kyle Ruddick and Brandon Littman, documents one day in the life of humanity from every country on the planet. More than 15,000 people contributed footage from their ethnic...
Search Continues for Victims of Kashmir Avalanche Pakistani soldiers continue to dig, inch-by-inch, in search of 140 colleagues buried under this massive pile of rock. Rescuers using sniffer dogs and life-detection equipment have braved blizzard-like...
