Rep. Darrell Issa said Friday some GOP presidential candidates' idea of profiling Muslims to combat terrorism is comparable to the phenomenon called 'driving while black.'

Herman Cain’s chance of winning the GOP presidential nomination has virtually disappeared amid numerous allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior. But sex scandals are not necessarily fatal to political ambition. Against all odds, some candidates or incumbents survive them. How do they do it? Here’s a list of notable politicos whose careers continued in spite of their slips – and some who didn’t, and found themselves looking for work in the private sector.

Ayman Zawahiri, the current Al Qaeda boss, released a recorded speech claiming credit for the kidnapping of veteran US aid worker Warren Weinstein.

AP - The unemployment rate, which has refused to budge from the 9 percent neighborhood for two and a half frustrating years, suddenly dropped in November, driven in part by small businesses that finally see reason to hope and hire.

AP - Sixty-two percent of eligible voters took part in the initial round of Egypt's first parliamentary elections since Hosni Mubarak's ouster, the head of the election commission said Friday, celebrating the turnout as "the highest since the time of pharaohs."

AP - Inside palace walls built by Saddam Hussein, U.S. generals plotted the war's course, tracked the mounting death toll and swore in new American citizens under gaudy glass chandeliers.