With the House of Delegates voting 59 to 39 in favor of the Tebow Bill on Wednesday, Virginia is a step closer toward forcing public schools to allow home-schoolers to play on their sports team.
The Obama administration is willing to work with Catholic universities, hospitals and other church-affiliated employers to implement a new policy that requires health insurers to offer birth control coverage, a top adviser to the president's re-election campaign said on Tuesday.
Fourteen hospitals from New York, Mississippi, North Carolina, Washington, Indiana, Missouri and Florida have agreed to pay more than $12 million to the United States in order to settle allegations that the health care facilities submitted false claims to Medicare, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday.
Former U.S. senator Rick Santorum rejuvenated his presidential hopes on Tuesday with a shocking sweep of the three nominating contests in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri, dealing a blow to wounded front-runner Mitt Romney.
Republican candidate reinvigorates campaign against frontrunner Mitt Romney with triple victory.
Tuesday marked the 50th anniversary of the United States' ban on trade with Cuba, a policy that has endured through 10 presidential administrations and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul was glitter-bombed by a gay rights advocate at a Minneapolis convention center.
Karen Handel, vice president of public policy at Susan G. Komen for the Cure, resigned a week after the breast cancer foundation got heat for cutting funding to Planned Parenthood.
Eli Manning made an appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman on Monday night to talk about the New York Giants' victorious win during the 2012 Super Bowl. But Sunday wasn't only pure bliss for the quarterback because of the win; Manning's 11-month-old baby, Ava Frances, learned how to clap. View the video to watch Manning talking about baby daughter Ava and his second Super Bowl win.
The International Monetary Fund and Vice President Joe Biden have both raised doubts about China's economic growth, although for different reasons.
A multi-state mortgage settlement in the works for more than a year will likely be pushed back again as dissident U.S. states continue to press specific concerns and ignore a Monday deadline to decide whether they will sign it.
Vice President Joe Biden warned on Monday that there is no way that China will be able to sustain its current level of economic growth because of what he called its God-awful one-child policy.
MSNBC hosted a one-on-one debate on Monday between former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu, a Mitt Romney supporter, and former U.S. Rep. Bob Walker of Pennsylvania, a Newt Gingrich supporter -- and boy, did it get heated.
Amar'e Stoudemire will miss Monday night's game against the Utah Jazz after rushing home to Florida to be with his family upon hearing the news of his older brother's death.
Yuraj Singh, the famous Indian cricketer, has been diagnosed with cancer after doctors reportedly discovered a Stage-1 tumor in his left lung.
Stoudemire's older brother, Hazell, was killed this morning in an auto accident in Florida.
A woman has sued a Bensonhurst deli because its front step make it inaccessible to her because she is in a wheelchair.The deli is owned by reputed mob boss Vincent Vinny TV Badalamenti,
More than 100 people on board a cruise ship operated by a unit of Carnival Corp have fallen ill with a stomach virus, the latest setback facing the world's biggest cruise company, which came under scrutiny last month for the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster in Italy.
Newt Gingrich vowed Sunday to press ahead with his struggling presidential bid after a big loss in Nevada, saying he will focus on drawing a contrast with timid rival Mitt Romney.
A defiant Newt Gingrich vowed to continue in the 2012 Republican presidential race and predicted that he could pull even with Mitt Romney in the delegate count within two months: I am a candidate for president of the United States. I will be a candidate for president of the United States.
Mitt Romney has won the Nevada caucuses in his second consecutive victory of the 2012 Republican presidential-nomination season. What does that mean for him, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, and Rick Santorum?
Republican front-runner Mitt Romney cruised to an easy victory in Nevada on Saturday, taking firm command of the party's volatile presidential nominating race. He captured 44 percent of the vote with about 43 percent of precincts counted, taking about a 20-point lead over his closest rivals.
