Freshman Republican Senator Rand Paul (KY) lashed out at the leadership of his own party, blaming them for preventing debate on the extension of the PATRIOT Act, which the Senate passed Thursday. “I’ve been working for two long days...

On her show Thursday night, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow said Republicans were far more interested in what was occurring in American women’s uteruses than in creating jobs. Watch video, courtesy of MSNBC, below: Visit msnbc.com for breaking...

MORELIA, Mexico — A clash between rival gangs left 29 dead in Nayarit, western Mexico, while more fighting further south has prompted the exodus of almost 2,000 people, local authorities said Thursday. The clash on a highway in the Pacific coast...

Okay, this picture made me smile: I need a smile after reading the news that Strauss-Kahn's lawyers, after realizing "he never touched her!" wasn't going to fly, decided to go with the standard issue "she's a dirty...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Thursday formally nominated Leon Panetta as his new secretary of defense and David Petraeus, who commands the international force in Afghanistan, as Panetta’s successor at the CIA. Obama had first...

Echoing claims he made on MSNBC in April, conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart blamed Fox News host Glenn Beck for a clip that portrayed U.S. Department of Agriculture state director Shirley Sherrod as racist. Breitbart accused Beck of taking...

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The moon may have a lot more water than imagined, perhaps as much as on Earth in some parts, a study said Thursday, in a discovery that has cast doubt on long-held theories about how it was formed. The moon was long thought to...

NEW YORK – Defense lawyers for Dominique Strauss-Kahn say they have information which could “gravely undermine” the credibility of the New York hotel maid accusing the former IMF chief of trying to rape her. The threat appeared in a...

KABUL – Seven soldiers killed in a bombing in southern Afghanistan on Thursday were Americans, the Pentagon confirmed, adding that they died after successive blasts struck them at the same location. Pentagon spokesman Colonel Dave Lapan said the...

JOPLIN, Missouri (AFP) – Officials Thursday said 232 people were still missing four days after a tornado tore through a Missouri town, and had only managed to identify one of the 125 bodies found in the storm’s wake. Some of the missing...

After seven days of deliberation, a jury acquitted two New York City police officers of felony charges of rape, burglary and falsifying business records for the alleged assault on a drunken 27-year-old woman they helped escort home. Although...

WASHINGTON – Scientists on Thursday cast doubt on a study that claimed bacteria ate nearly all the methane that leaked after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, saying its methods were flawed. Describing the findings as...

WASHINGTON — The US Senate voted 72 to 23 Thursday to extend controversial counter-terrorism search and surveillance powers at the heart of the Patriot Act adopted after the September 11, 2001 attacks. In a procedural move, US lawmakers voted to...

WASHINGTON — The US House of Representatives passed a $690 billion Pentagon budget Thursday that bars American ground forces in Libya and limits the Obama administration’s powers on handling Guantanamo detainees. Lawmakers voted 322-96 in...

MEXICO CITY — British-born Leonora Carrington, the Surrealist artist who ran off with Max Ernst and escaped from a mental hospital before fleeing Nazi Europe, has died in Mexico at age 94, officials said Thursday. Carrington, who became a...