Elisha Maldonado

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has set a special election for Sept. 13 to replace former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-New York, in Congress. Coinciding with state primaries, six vacant seats in the state assembly are also up for grabs.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has backtracked on one of the core tenets of his presidential campaign: that President Barack Obama has made a struggling U.S. economy even worse.

Two French journalists held hostage for 18 months by the Taliban have returned to France after being freed by their captors.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said today that Congress has no option other than approving an increase in the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling, Bloomberg reported.

As the defense rested its case in the murder trial of Casey Anthony, a guilty verdict was given - but not for Anthony.

The U.S. Senate on Thursday unanimously confirmed Gen. David H. Petraeus, now commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, to be the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

In an attempt to put it all on the table, the U.S. Senate's top Republican invited President Obama to a GOP lunch at the Capitol to discuss the ongoing dispute over the debt ceiling and related issues, but the White House on Thursday declined the invitation.

The defense in the Casey Anthony murder trial rested Thursday afternoon without testimony from the Florida mother about the 2008 death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee.

A Kansas board has unanimously approved new regulations for abortion providers, moving the state one step closer to becoming the first in the nation without a clinic or doctor's office performing the procedures.

Shawn Carter felt an overriding sense of freedom - freedom of religion, freedom of thought, and the freedom to express both - when his parents, both founding members of a Baptist church, kicked him out of their home after he stopped attending. It became one of the defining moments of his life, he said.

Casey Anthony's defense team said it plans to rest its case Thursday, but it remains unclear if the Orlando, Fla. woman accused of murdering her 2-year-old daughter Caylee Anthony will take the stand to testify.

If President Barack Obama was hoping that his scolding of Republican lawmakers on Wednesday would spur action to the stalled debt talks, the GOP response made clear that the gulf between the two sides is larger than ever.

Casey Anthony's father, George Anthony, on the witness stand again on Wednesday, testified that he bought a gun in August 2008, planning on using it to force his daughter's friends to tell him what happened to his then-missing granddaughter by gunpoint, Reuters reported.

On Wednesday, a day before his final one at the Pentagon, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates issued a statement of farewell, thanking all U.S. Armed Forces.

President Obama scolded lawmakers Wednesday for failing to reach a budget deal, and used his daughters as an example of how to handle pressure and deadlines.

A group opposed to gay marriage said it will spend at least $2 million to oust seven New York state senators who changed their positions on gay marriage, The Associated Press reported.

Casey Anthony's father, George Anthony, revealed Wednesday that he attempted suicide to be reunited with his dead granddaughter Caylee and damaged his daughter's defense by pointing out that she was the last one to see the toddler alive, ABC News reported.

Pippa Middleton, the sporty young sister of Britain's Duchess of Cambridge, made an appearance Wednesday at Wimbledon on the arm of her sometime boyfriend, Alex Loudon.

While blasting President Barack Obama for wasting tax dollars and frequenting the politically correct line, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minnesota, had a promise for Granite State voters: she'd run the White House with a titanium spine.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge may be arriving in Canada later this week, but royalists in Canada have come up with a longer-term solution for royals in their country: install Prince Harry as their king.

Pope Benedict XVI has tweeted for the first time, announcing the launch of a Vatican news information portal.

U.S. Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif., announced Monday that she will not run for an 11th term in 2012, saying she will reach age 75 before the next election and the time has come to move on.

Former Gov. Sarah Palin, R-Alaska, is scheduled to be in Iowa Tuesday, not for a campaign appearance, but rather for yet another turn in the spotlight.

In a major foreign policy address in New York on Tuesday, Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty accused the Obama administration of failing to pursue American interests during the Arab Spring and of wavering on Iran.

U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords made a public appearance at a NASA function with her astronaut husband Monday evening, a spokesman said.

Disgraced former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-NY, is trying to insert himself back into politics, calling power brokers and would-be candidates for his old seat, hoping they’ll let him play a role in choosing his own successor, the New York Post reported.

Authorities ordered Los Alamos evacuated yesterday as a fast-growing fire blazed across New Mexico, with flames coming within a mile of the famed nuclear research facility.

Supporters of California's gay marriage ban are appealing a ruling that a U.S. judge's own gay relationship was no basis for throwing out his decision in support of same-sex marriage.

Premier Wen Jiabao called on Monday for freedom and real democracy in China, despite Beijing clamping down on dissent this year, as calls were made for a “Jasmine” revolution similar to uprisings in the Arab world.