Jeremy White

Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry has unabashedly stood by executing more people than any governor in history, but lawyers are pleading with Perry not to add to the record by condemning a man whose sentence may have been tainted by racist testimony.

In an unusual turn of events, the New York Times and the Palins are agreeing -- and it's Joe McGinniss' Palin exposé The Rogue that has them on the same page.

For affirmation of the old saying that the truth is stranger than fiction, compare Nicolas Cage's role in the upcoming film Trespass, in which strangers break into his affluent home, and his real-life experience dealing with a very bizarre intruder.

Jurors have exonerated Casey Anthony but Casey's father George is not so sure, telling Phil Dr. Phil McGraw that Casey drugged daughter Caylee to death.

New York City is set to announce a bike sharing program that will encompass much of Manhattan and Brooklyn by 2012, broadening the city's focus on facilitating bicycle transportation.

Americans revealed their ambivalence on gay marriage in a new poll, with a narrow majority of people surveyed saying the government should recognize same-sex marriage but nearly half supporting a constitutional ban on gay marriage.

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann's claim that Gardasil can cause mental retardation has absolutely no scientific validity, according to O. Marion Burton, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

An estimated 366 million people worldwide now suffer from diabetes, an explosion in the number of cases that has health officials urging swift action to stem a worsening public health crisis.

With U.S. job creation a paramount concern for voters, President Barack Obama is hoping that Republicans will feel the pressure from their constituents to approve his newly unveiled American Jobs Act.

The Arab Spring revolutions could enable sectarian and religious violence in countries where civil society has collapsed, the U.S. State Department said in its annual report on religious freedom.

Republican Bob Turner's victory in the special election for Anthony Weiner's New York congressional seat is being interpreted across the political spectrum as a possible rebuke to Democrats, particularly President Barack Obama.

In Texas, Duane Edward Buck was sentenced to death row after a psychologist said his race made him more likely to be violent.

Several news outlets are reporting that Elizabeth Warren will officially announce on Wednesday her intention to run for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts.

President Barack Obama began a national bid to promote his jobs plan on Tuesday, telling an audience at Fort Hayes Arts and Academic High School in Columbus, Ohio that it would put America back on the path to global competitiveness.

The Central Intelligence Agency is launching an investigation into whether CIA agents broke the law by helping New York police officers monitor minorities and cultivate informants in Muslim communities.

In U.S. politics, he who wins the verbal war often wins the political war, and with the aforementioned in mind, the Republicans are ahead.

The latest top colleges list contains a lot of the usual suspects at the top -- schools with names most people would recognize; however, the broader field contained considerable ranking changes.

More Americans dropped below the poverty line last year amid a stalled economic recovery, according to U.S. Census data released on Tuesday.

The odds of a planet other than Earth being able to support life are vanishingly small, but astronomers believe a super earth just outside our solar system may be hospitable to life.

On a night when the Republican presidential candidates focused their energy on undermining frontrunner Rick Perry, the Texas governor's record on immigration again surfaced as a potential weak point.

College-bound students and admissions officers, take note: U.S. News and World Report released its annual college rankings for 2012 on Tuesday, offering the latest snapshot of the higher-education hierarchy.

President Barack Obama said he plans to offset the $447 billion cost of his new jobs plan by jettisoning tax breaks for wealthy Americans, prefiguring a clash with Republicans who have opposed similar measures in the past.

Astronomers using a powerful new planet hunting telescope have discovered more than 50 new planets, including one just outside our solar system that could be hospitable to life.

They meow, they glow in the dark and they could help scientists understand how to shield the immune system against the ravages of HIV/AIDS.

So far, relatively few states have made progress in establishing the health insurance exchanges that represent a central piece of the federal health care reform bill.

Fragments of Dr. Phil's interview with Casey Anthony's parents have begun filtering out, offering glimpses of a tense conversation about when George and Cindy Anthony became aware of their granddaughter Caylee's death.

There are many things to appreciate about the Miss Universe 2011 competition, but the bikini competition is always one of the most anticipated rounds of the annual showdown between the world's most beautiful women.

Scientists are hoping that cats genetically engineered to glow in the dark can illuminate new ways to develop treatment for AIDS.

Will the Tea Party faction-dominated Republican Party try to find common ground with President Barack Obama and pass a much-needed jobs bill?