In a rare glimpse into cyber warfare tactics, a top U.S. official has explicitly acknowledged that the U.S. government hacked into websites run by Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen, changing advertisements that boasted about killing Americans into advertisements that underscored the deaths of Muslim civilians...

The percent of Americans who identify as “pro-choice” regarding legalized abortion is at a new low of 41 percent, according to a newly released Gallup poll. The figure is one percent lower than the previous all-time low registered by Gallup, which was in May 2009....

Polls opened for a second day across Egypt on Thursday in a gripping presidential election in which candidates are pitting stability against the ideals of the uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak's rule.

The fallout from Facebook's messy initial public offering widened as shareholders sued the social network and its bankers while a trading firm revealed a massive loss on the shares and threatened to seek "remedies."

At a fundraiser for his re-election campaign in Denver, President Obama set out to upend conventional Republican wisdom that his administration has been defined by excessive government spending.

A fire on a nuclear-powered submarine at a Maine shipyard has injured six people, including a firefighter.

Pakistani intelligence officials say a suspected U.S. drone fired two missiles that killed 10 alleged militants in northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border.

Two weeks after President Obama declared his support for gay marriage, former Secretary of State Colin Powell told CNN that he has "no problem with it."

Fire crews hampered by wind gusts and the driest conditions in two decades in the U.S. Southwest made slow gains on battling dangerous forest and brush fires, including one in Nevada that doubled in size overnight.