Executives at internet search giant Google have apologised over an offensive picture of US first lady Michelle Obama that appeared high on its list of search results.

MASSIVE CUTS TO MEDICARE BENEFITS FOR SENIORS. Despite grave warnings from CBO, FactCheck.org, and the independent Lewin Group that cuts to Medicare of the magnitude included in Speaker Pelosi's bill would have a negative impact on seniors' benefits and

BATON ROUGE, La.- A Louisiana justice of the peace who refused to marry a couple because the bride was white and groom was black resigned Tuesday. Good Riddance...

YANGON (Reuters) - A delegation of senior U.S. officials, pursuing a new dialogue, met with Myanmar's military rulers on Tuesday in the highest-level talks with the reclusive junta in 14 years.

Shouldn't Rush Limbaugh's history of racist statements preclude him from becoming part-owner of a team in a league where 70 percent of players are African American?

Religious conservatives, safely out of the public eye, let loose a string of shocking diatribes at the Values Voter Summit. Religious right activists frequently assert that communists in the Soviet Union invented the idea of separation of church and state

The Secret Service is investigating the origins of a poll that appeared on Facebook that asked whether President Obama should be killed.

New book claims that Bush administration officials objected to giving JK Rowling a presidential medal of freedom on the grounds that her Harry Potter books 'encouraged witchcraft'

The U.S. government failed to send promised college tuition checks to tens of thousands of veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars before they returned to school this fall,

The ugly side of Evangelical Christianity is very much to blame for the anti-Obama hyperventilating. American Christianity Is At The Heart Of Our Worst Problems and most of our minor problems?...Hatred and god do not mix.