Jerusalem (CNN) -- Israel's government has approved a temporary freeze on settlement construction in the West Bank in an effort to restart peace talks with the Palestinians.

A new report out by World Wildlife Fund and insurer Allianz warns that sea levels could rise along the U.S. coast a whopping 26 inches by 2050 as the world warms. That would place assets worth $7.4 trillion at risk along the US coast.

What amazes me is there are only two countries in the world that support the U.S. embargo against Cuba: Israel & Palau.The former chief of staff to Colin Powell just told me the U.S. embargo against Cuba is "stupid and idiotic" and it should be lifted.

DANFORTH, Maine--Work begins on another Maine wind farm this week. The first phase of the project, which comprised 38 turbines on Stetson Mountain, was completed in January. Stetson II will include 17 more windmills.

From the very minute the President was shot on November 22, 1963, news wires began humming; transmitting every piece of information. By 1:38 AM, they were sending the grimmest news since the attack on Pearl Harbor, the 35th President of the U.S. was dead.

PROVINCETOWN - This Thursday, families across America will join in a feast to celebrate the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth Rock and took their first steps in what would become our nation. It is all true - except the first-steps-in-the-New-World part.

Rep. Patrick Kennedy says he was banned by a Catholic bishop from receiving Communion in Rhode Island, the central sacrament of the church, because of the congressman's support for abortion rights, Kennedy said in a newspaper interview Sunday.

Faced with a budget crisis that threatens its survival and under pressure to wean itself from state funding, the beleaguered Franklin Park Zoo would scrap its governor-appointed board in favor of a body with more fund-raising clout...

The GOP is doing its darndest to quickly move on from an embarrassing revelation -- that even as congressional Republicans insist that the health care overhaul does not cover abortions, the national party's own health plan covers elective procedures.

Holy @/!#!, does it ever! Or so concludes a British study published recently in the journal NeuroReport."It seems to...via the emotional content of swearing - people shock themselves into a state of emotional arousal, known to have a pain lessening effect