On her show Wednesday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow provided a brief history of Mitt Romney’s “half-cocked” foreign policy remarks. Most recently, the Republican presidential candidate attacked the Obama administration for...

Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura blasted Fox News on Wednesday night for allegedly banning him from the news network. “Those tough guys from Fox won’t have me on,” he told Current TV host Joy Behar, saying MSNBC had banned him as...

Barack Obama has stepped into the political row over Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s ill-judged response to the Benghazi consulate attack. Romney faced heavy criticism from across the political spectrum for statements...

Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) said Thursday night that he was disappointed to see Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney disavow his belief in climate change. As the governor of Massachusetts, Romney had worked to reduce the state’s...

Republican Gov. John Kasich of Ohio said Wednesday at a Romney campaign rally that his wife was at home doing laundry while he gave political speeches. “You know, Jane Portman, Karen Kasich, and Janna Ryan, they operate an awful lot of the...

WASHINGTON — First they began offering salad, then they added fruit. On Wednesday, McDonald’s announced it would put something else on its menu to help customers watching their waistlines: calorie counts. The fast food giant said that...

WASHINGTON — For the past week, the rover, which touched down on August 6, has undergone a series of instrument tests, as well as a rebooting of its steering computers, and everything so far appears fine, according to officials with the Jet...

NEW YORK — A New York federal judge shot down part of a controversial anti-terror law Wednesday that journalists and scholars worry could see them locked up indefinitely for speaking their minds. Judge Katherine Forrest issued a ruling that...

MIAMI — The film which has triggered deadly protests in the Middle East over its portrayal of the Islamic faith is not intended to insult Muslims, a controversial US pastor who backs the movie said Wednesday. Terry Jones, who has sparked deadly...

Senate Republican Whip Jon Kyl (AZ) on Wednesday accused the U.S. embassy in Cairo of “apologizing” for anti-American violence because the embassy released a statement condemning an anti-Muslim film. “It’s like the judge...

Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association, a conservative Christian group, said Wednesday that the killing of a U.S. ambassador in Libya was an act of war that could only be remedied if the perpetrators were publicly executed. “An...

Union delegate Darryl Reed explained Monday that the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) began their strike on Monday to prevent teachers from being unjustly fired. “We’ve been saying all along that the [Chicago Public School system] did...

WASHINGTON — The United States vowed to stand by Libya on Wednesday despite the killing of the US ambassador and three colleagues by Islamist militants on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State...

TEHRAN — Iran has condemned a film insulting Islam that sparked a deadly protest in Libya killing the US ambassador, while Iranian media reported an anti-US protest over the movie would take place in Tehran on Thursday. A foreign ministry...

PARIS — Some computer models for global warming may be over-estimating the risk of drought, according to a study published on Wednesday by the journal Nature. Several key models used in climate research that factor in warming trends suggest that...