A U.S. pastor who called off a Quran burning said he was "rethinking our position" after a proposed meeting over an Islamic center near New York's ground zero went unconfirmed.

The 33 miners trapped inside a Chilean mine have shown their families a glimpse of what their routines are like, thanks to a video they made.

Philippine authorities acknowledged for the first time Thursday that some of the tourists taken hostage in a bus standoff last month may have been shot by police in the bungled rescue.

An American family is desperately trying to get their daughter back after the 15-year-old ran away with her boyfriend to Brazil, where authorities handed her over to the boyfriend's family.

While Americans celebrated Labor Day, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon gathered in the Austrian alps with the top echelon of the United Nations to answer the perennial issue – how to take charge of setting the world’s agenda. According to position papers received by FOX News, a very ambitious agenda was planned for the two-day, top-secret [...]

The Obama administration can now continue it’s financing of life-destroying human embryonic stem-cell research. The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., placed a hold today on District Judge Royce Lamberth’s Aug. 23 order, while awaiting Lamberth’s ruling on the original lawsuit. In its incongruous attempt to downplay the administration continued quest to finance the [...]

The California Supreme Court on Wednesday denied a request by the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) to order Attorney General Jerry Brown and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to defend marriage. Now the fate of Proposition 8 – the 2008 voter-approved ballot measure defining marriage as being between one man and one woman – rests solely with the [...]

According to the Wisconsin Council on Problem Gambling, helpline calls are at a record high and so is gambling addiction. According to the Green Bay Gazette,  the helpline received 14,604 calls in 2009 and determined that “Roughly 332,000 Wisconsinites are bettors who have experienced family or work difficulties because of gambling … 5 to 7 [...]

Real estate mogul Donald Trump has offered to buy the lower Manhattan site where a Muslim group plans to build an Islamic community center for 25 percent more than the current owners paid for it.

Iran says it will release one of the three American hikers detained for more than a year on Saturday, a day after the conclusion of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, according to an official at the ministry of culture and Islamic guidance.

There are a couple new blog posts of note that add more light to the current debate over selection of judges that I recently mentioned in a post about the Iowa Supreme Court retention elections as well as the latest Rasmussen poll showing that Americans want more accountability from judges. First is this post over [...]

A tell-all book by a former "Girls Gone Wild" photographer alleges that Paris Hilton once smuggled illegal drugs into Europe using a cigarette box hidden inside her body.

With Election Day quickly approaching, much of the public’s attention has been rightly focused on a spiraling economic mess.

It’s difficult to remember such a time as this, when so much of the public’s attention has been focused on economic matters. But with every new headline, it’s easy to see why.

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A car bomb explodes near a market in the Russian republic of North Ossetia killing at least 15 people and injuring many more, Interfax news agency reports.

Interpol issues a global alert to its 188 member countries, warning of a "strong likelihood" of violent attacks if plans for a Quran burning in Florida go ahead.

The religious leader behind plans to build an Islamic center and mosque a few blocks from New York's ground zero said Wednesday night that America's national security depends on how it handles the controversy.

U.S. Marines boarded and seized control Thursday of a German-owned vessel that had been captured by pirates the day before off the coast of Somalia, the U.S. Fifth Fleet said.

Suicide bombers driving a pair of civilian cars disguised as government vehicles slammed into the main gate at Somalia's main airport Thursday, a spokesman for the African Union said.

U.S. President Barack Obama says a Florida church's plans to burn dozens of Qurans would hand al Qaeda a "recruitment bonanza."

A British journalist held captive in Pakistan since March has been released, the U.K. Foreign Office told CNN Thursday.