Fox News host Bill O’Reilly argued on Thursday that his Daily Show counterpart Jon Stewart’s commentary knocking the responses to the State of the Union address was actually expressing “liberal dissatisfaction” with...

The head of a San Francisco church is accused of covering up one of his former trustees’ sexual abuse toward an employee, including paddlings and coerced sexual activities, KGO-TV reported on Thursday. “Many of these sex acts and...

The Alabama State Senate voted 20-1 on Thursday to make bestiality (zoophilia) a misdemeanor criminal offense punishable  by up to one year in jail, AL.com reported. Sponsored by Sen. Tom Whatley (R), Senate Bill 151 would criminalize sexual...

Queen Elizabeth II’s representative in New Zealand has publicly supported debate on ditching the Union Jack from the national flag, saying ties to former colonial ruler Britain have waned. Commenting on Prime Minister John Key’s call...

Yahoo alerted users of its free email service Thursday that hackers slipped into accounts to loot information using stolen passwords. The California company did not disclose the extent of the breach, but said that it is asking those affected to...

NJ Republicans want to use leftover campaign funds for GWB defense (via NJ.com) TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie’s re-election campaign has asked permission to use leftover campaign funds to pay the legal bills surrounding the investigation...

Longtime Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) announced his retirement from office on Thursday, with Sandra Fluke — the former law student who became an early symbol of Republicans’ “war on women” — seemingly in the mix of...

In Britain, wild swans may be prized for their beauty and protected by the Queen, but the US state of New York has declared war on them, branding them a violent menace. Draft proposals to kill or resettle the state’s 2,200 wild mute swans...

Republican lawmakers endorsed in principle the legalization of millions of undocumented immigrants on Thursday, but stopped short of backing a pathway to citizenship. The majority party in the House of Representatives did, however, specify that...

Millions of dollars in US aid is flowing into Afghanistan even though the ministries receiving the funds are incapable of managing such large sums of money, a US official report said Thursday. Despite moves by the US Agency for International...

Radio commentator and investment adviser Peter Schiff , who was recently interviewed by The Daily Show’s Samantha Bee for a segment on the minimum wage, is very upset that he has been pilloried for using the not very politically-correct...

The Federal Reserve’s key monetary policy-making panel, the Federal Open Market Committee, officially chose incoming Fed chief Janet Yellen as its chair Thursday. One day after outgoing Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke oversaw his final FOMC...

Breakthrough could help battle diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, but ethical concerns remain over animal testing Researchers have created genetically modified monkeys with a revolutionary new procedure that enables...

President Barack Obama announced that he will convene a meeting of top executives from some of the country’s top companies to agree upon a set of hiring principles he says will benefit the long-term unemployed. “What we have done is...

A court in Florence on Thursday sentenced American student Amanda Knox to 28 years and six months in prison for the murder of her British housemate in 2007 in the latest dramatic twist in the high-profile case. The court, after 12 hours of...