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Mike Huckabee suggested on his Fox show Huckabee that Osama bin Laden is a hypocrite, for all his anti-Western and cave-dwelling public image.

The final launch of the space shuttle Endeavour has settled to take place next Monday after engineers battled to resolve an electrical problem that plagued the original launch dates.

Federal authorities have announced an indictment, Saturday, charging six people with supporting Taliban militants in Pakistan. Three were arrested while 3 are still at large.

Back office fraud is draining corporate treasuries of billions of dollars a year, and the risk is growing as companies and employees struggle in the wake of the recession, finance managers and experts say.

A local government in rural Hunan, China, through its family planning agency, abducts children from local families and then presumably sold them, reported Chinese newspaper Caixin.

The 'Mighty' Mississippi river has risen steeply - in some places to record levels - as a result of higher than usual rains, flooding various areas along its winding trajectory cutting across the central U.S.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) more firearm homicides were completed by 10 to 19 year old Americans in metropolitan areas than all other areas in 2006-2007 their recent Morbidity and Morality Weekly report.

The final launch of the space shuttle Endeavour has settled to take place next Monday after engineers battled to resolve an electrical problem that plagued the original launch dates.

President Barack Obama wants more domestic oil drilling, including off the coast of Alaska and in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Mississippi river, which is the largest system of rivers in North America, is displaying why it is nicknamed the Mighty Mississippi as flooding along its banks is forcing residents out and triggering flood relief systems installed decades ago to diminish, if not fully control, its impact.

At least six people have been killed by a roadside bomb that struck a passenger bus near Kharian, a garrison city about 75 miles southeast of Islamabad, Pakistan, according to local police officials.

Officials will open the flood gates of the Morganza Spillway at one sparsely populated part of Louisiana to protect the bigger cities of Baton Rouge and New Orleans to the South.

Will Mike Huckabee run for President in 2012? Polls suggest he has a good shot.

Pakistani Taliban leaders sometimes visited with al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden at his compound in Abbottabad, according to documents and computer files captured by U.S. officials.

President Barack Obama said on Saturday he would seek to expand U.S. oil production by opening up areas in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico.

Two Florida Imams, also US citizens, have been accused by the US Justice Department with supporting the Pakistani Taliban.

President Barack Obama on Saturday outlined three “good sense” steps he says his administration and Congress should take to deal with a spike in gasoline prices, oil drilling, and tax breaks for oil companies. Obama framed the steps outlined on Saturday as ways of dealing with insufficient job growth and rising gasoline prices.

The battle between regional tech giants Yahoo and Alibaba heated up as the companies released contradictory statements following this weeks controversial Alipay transfer.

The stock market performance of major stock indices in 2011 may shock you. One of the best-performing markets is the US. That’s right – the lumbering, deficit ridden, and low-growth giant.

The following are the remarks by President Barack Obama for his weekly address addressing the need to increase U.S. oil production on Saturday, May 14, 2011.

U.S. Senator John Kerry has advised senior officials of the Pakistani government that he wants Islamabad to be a “real” ally and help with the fight against militants and terrorists.