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The Georgia Department of Transportation will not approve the application of a local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan to "adopt" a one-mile stretch of highway in North Georgia, a state official said Tuesday.

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) -- A report says Tunisian authorities have placed the area around the capital under curfew following protests by radical Islamists, along with several areas in the North African country's interior....

Third Age | The "$4.3 billion 9/11 health program [will] include people with 50 types of cancer, covering 14 broad categories of the disease."

BALTIMORE (AP) -- Fighting for re-election, President Barack Obama is playing down his historic health care overhaul and the multibillion-dollar recession-fighting stimulus - two landmark efforts of his first three years in office. Those signature policies are unpopular, and voters clearly want the candidates to focus instead on jobs....

MOSCOW (AP) -- Undeterred by a sudden escalation in the Kremlin's crackdown on the opposition, tens of thousands thronged Moscow's tree-lined boulevards Tuesday in the first mass protest against Vladimir Putin since he returned to the presidency in May....

MOSCOW (AP) -- Undeterred by a sudden escalation in the Kremlin's crackdown on the opposition, tens of thousands thronged Moscow's tree-lined boulevards Tuesday in the first mass protest against Vladimir Putin since he returned to the presidency in May....

MADRID (AP) -- Spain's benchmark borrowing rate hit its highest level Tuesday since the country adopted the euro currency, after ratings agency Fitch downgraded 18 banks on Tuesday and investors continued to find more questions than answers in the country's decision to seek help for its ailing bank sector by tapping a (EURO)100 billion ($125 billion) eurozone bailout fund....

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- It was eight hours of squeals, screams, tears: an emotional rollercoaster, at least part of which I spent with my 9-year-old daughter on my shoulders as she craned for a better view of teen heartthrob Justin Bieber....

The US Coast Guard releases the recordings of an emergency call describing an explosion on a yacht that turned out to be a hoax.

Labour leader Ed Miliband tells the Leveson Inquiry that Rupert Murdoch's dominance of the British media fuelled his empire's "arrogance".

Leftist Berkeley professor George Lakoff believes that family metaphors are the key to understanding politics, and writes: Progressive morality fits a nurturant family: parents are equal, the values are empathy, responsibility for oneself and others, and cooperation. That is taught to children. Parents protect and empower their children, and listen to them. Authority comes through an ethic of Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.com0

Thomas DiLorenzo | Such talk is bound to get "Jeb" what he wants.

Tunisia declares a curfew in eight regions, including the capital, after rioting which the government blames on Islamists angered by an art show.

The head of Nigeria's stock exchange regulator, Arunmah Oteh, is suspended pending an investigation into allegations of malpractice.

FORT STEWART, Ga. (AP) -- A Georgia soldier was found guilty Tuesday of killing his two Army roommates in 2010 at a U.S. base camp in Iraq, where prosecutors said he opened fire hours after complaining that the victims had let their room get too messy....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Michelle Obama gets a rare thumbs-up from her adolescent daughters for publishing her first gardening book....

Charles Q. Choi | Woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) wandered the planet for about 250,000 year.

BOSTON (AP) — The longtime girlfriend of mobster James "Whitey" Bulger was sentenced Tuesday to eight years in prison for helping him stay on the run for 16 years.

Catherine Greig showed no emotion when U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock handed down the sentence.

The 61-year-old Greig pleaded guilty in ...

WPP shareholders vote against the advertising agency's executive pay report, which includes a £6.8m deal for chief executive Sir Martin Sorrell.

The leader of Greece's radical leftist party Syriza, Alexis Tsipras, warns the EU against trying to cow him if he wins Sunday's election.