The President will address the nation tonight about his new strategy in Iraq. He will lay out a political, economic and militaristic plan and acknowledge some of the mistakes made. But instead of d...

Fighting appears to have ended for now on Haifa Street in Baghdad, the restive neighborhood near the green zone that has been a site of guerilla activity since 2003. The U.S. military and the Iraqi...

As a result of a lawsuit and years of student and parent organizing efforts, the Pentagon announced it will no longer collect student social security numbers or share student’s information wi...

Hugo Chavez was sworn in a Venezuela’s President today, repeating a well-known phrase from Cuba’s Fidel Castro “Fatherland, Socialism or Death: I swear it!”. Chavez was elec...

Former guerilla rebel leader Daniel Ortega takes office as President in Nicaragua today for the second time. Ortega was despised by the Reagan administration while he served as president of Nicarag...

The House of Representatives has moved on its second priority for its first 100 hours of business, successfully passing a two dollar and 10 cent increase to the minimum wage. The last time the mini...

Attorneys argued whether to overturn Kevin Cooper\'s death sentence in front of a 3-judge panel at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco yesterday. Cooper was convicted of murdering 4 p...