Today's Turkey referendum resulted in a significant boost to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling AKP party as voters approved 26 amendments to the country's 1982 Constitution.
The tea party movement is clearly having major impact on the midterm elections – putting a significant number of more conventional Republicans as well as Democrats into a cold sweat as they look over their shoulders at tea party-backed candidates with a real possibility of winning.
One of the authorities’ newest tactics for quelling dissent in Russia is confiscating computers under the pretext of searching for pirated Microsoft software.
AP - Residents returned Sunday to the ruined hillsides of their suburban San Francisco neighborhood, three days after a natural gas pipeline exploded into a deadly fireball.
AP - House Minority Leader John Boehner says he would vote for President Obama's plan to extend tax cuts only for middle-class earners, not the wealthy, if that were the only option available to House Republicans.
AP - Hundreds of people evacuated during one of Colorado's most destructive wildfires returned to their scorched homes Sunday, just as residents about 35 miles to the northeast fled houses threatened by another fast-moving blaze.
Former 9/11 Commission Chair Lee Hamilton has released a new terrorism threat assesement on homegrown terror in the United States. The report emerges ahead of the ninth anniversary of the 2001 terror attacks.
Sarah Shourd, one of three American hikers detained in Iran for more than a year, could be released Monday once the Iranian judiciary gets $500,000 from the family.
A quickly intensifying Hurricane Igor is poised on Monday to become a Category 5 storm -- the most-powerful on the Saffir-Simpson scale that measures tropical weather.
Facing the prospect of losing control of Capitol Hill in the midterm elections, congressional Democrats return to Washington this week for a final month-long push to persuade voters to keep them in power.