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The Mississippi State Supreme Court issued a stay just hours before a man was scheduled to be executed for a 1992 double murder. Read More

More than four years after President Barack Obama signed an executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility, little has changed.  In spite of… Read More

After 10 years of being held captive, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus are finally home. Cleveland's city prosecutor, Victor Perez, announced Wednesday afternoon that he will charge Ariel Castro, 52, with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape. Read More

It seems that Republican Gov. Chris Christie's sky-high approval ratings and celeb friendships are nothing without the power of his well-worn blue fleece. Read More

Sen. Bob Corker, the ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, says he's comfortable the facts are already out on last year's terrorist attack in Benghazi. Read More

“If they keep this up you can be assured, minorities of all stripes will never vote for anyone who makes it more difficult for them to exercise right to vote," he said in a speech at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies's annual gala. Read More

Roughly 150 people died due to work-related illness or injury in 2011, according to a new report the AFL-CIO released on Tuesday. Fatal workplace injuries claimed 13 lives per day, while work-related illness and disease killed an additional 137 people daily. Read More

The South Carolina Republican continues to insist that the Obama administration covered up the attack for political reasons. Read More

A poll released on Wednesday shows that voters surveyed placed reducing gun violence and immigration at the bottom of a list of 12 priorities for Congress and the president to address. Read More

"When it comes to guns, there are Republicans who see any sort of movement at all toward any type of regulation, however minimal, as a severe infringement on the Second Amendment,” Rep. Peter King said of his GOP colleagues. Read More

Incumbent GOP Gov. Chris Christie has a more than two-to-one lead over state Sen. Barbara Buono, crushing the likely Democratic nominee 60% to 28%. Read More

Democrat Terry McAuliffe holds a slim lead over Republican Ken Cuccinelli (43% to 41%) in the most competitive race of 2013. Read More

Washington police chief says her department will welcome peaceful law-abiding protesters but insists action will be taken if demonstrators violate the District's law against open carry with guns. Read More

Mark Sanford delivers his acceptance speech to supporters Tuesday night after beating out his challenger for a South Carolina House seat. Read More

South Korean President Park Geun-Hye joined President Obama in a press conference Tuesday, where the two emphasized their countries' warm relationship and warned North Korea not to pursue its nuclear ambitions. Read More

Amanda Berry is being praised at the "real hero" by law enforcement, and a former teacher says he's not at all surprised the girl he remembers as a "tough cookie" fought her way out. Read More

South Carolina voters gave their former governor a second chance. Mark Sanford--"one imperfect man," as he said himself--now heads to the U.S. House of Representatives. Read More

The former Deputy Mission Chief in Libya, Gregory Hicks, is expected to testify Wednesday morning that the military overruled his attempts to send four special forces operatives from Tripoli to subdue the uprising at the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya. Hicks believes the special forces action could have saved two American lives. Read More

According to the Pentagon, the number of reported assaults in the fiscal year of 2012 rose 6% to 3,374 –up from 3,192 from the year before. Read More

Jindal will likely appeal the ruling, saying in a statement following the Louisiana Supreme Court's decision that, while he was "disappointed," he was also "committed to making sure this program continues." Read More