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At least 30 people died in a staggering surge in drug-related violent crime in Mexico rocking the cities of Monterrey and Guadalajara, and the northern state of Chihuahua, police said Saturday. The attacks were the latest deadly violence gripping Mexico's war on drugs, as the country's various criminal cartels struggle over turf and the government [...]

A senior White House official on Saturday criticized Iran's refusal to let opponents of the regime hold a rally in support of Arab uprisings. "By announcing that they will not allow opposition protests, the Iranian government has declared illegal for Iranians what it claimed was noble for Egyptians," National Security Advisor Tom Donilon said in [...]

Speaking to conservatives, Paul warns US government 'in the process of failing' For the second year running, Texas congressman Ron Paul came out on top among conservative Republicans in a "straw poll" contest to gauge popularity ahead of the 2012 presidential race. Paul, who calls himself a libertarian, is not really the party's typical standard [...]

Without court oversight, the nation's top law enforcement agency can obtain domestic records of telephone conversations made to international receivers, the Justice Department claimed recently. "[The Office of Legal Counsel] agreed with the FBI that under certain circumstances (word or words redacted) allows the FBI to ask for and obtain these records on a voluntary [...]

WASHINGTON – A scheduled high-level meeting among U.S., Afghan and Pakistani officials this month has been postponed, the State Department said on Saturday amid a deepening diplomatic rift over a U.S. man locked in a Pakistani jail accused of murder. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said the decision to scrap the February 23-24 meeting had [...]

ISLAMABAD – A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Saturday issued an arrest warrant for former president Pervez Musharraf over the assassination of ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto, a public prosecutor said. Musharraf, who was president when Bhutto was killed in December 2007 in a gun and suicide bomb attack, is in self-imposed exile in London. He will [...]

CAIRO – Egypt's new military rulers told the nation on Saturday they were committed to civilian rule and democracy after Hosni Mubarak's overthrow and said they would respect all treaties, a move to reassure Israel and Washington. Pro-democracy activists in Cairo's Tahrir (Liberation) Square, the epicenter of an earthquake of popular protest that unseated Mubarak, [...]

An anti-tax activist told an audience at a conservative forum recently that the left on the political spectrum consisted of nothing more than "competing parasites," not "friends and allies" of the right. “If we say no to tax increases, stop throwing money, they will cheerfully gnaw at the guy sitting next to them,” Grover Norquist, [...]

The liberal host of a popular cable television talk show recently cast doubts on President Barack Obama's espoused Christianity during a discussion on the president's current political leanings. "I think he's a centrist the way he's a Christian," Bill Maher of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher said to a round of laughs Friday. He [...]

SEOUL – China does not back efforts by Washington and Seoul to punish North Korea at the United Nations for its uranium enrichment programme and wants six-party talks to deal with the issue, a top South Korean envoy said on Saturday. International disagreement over how to deal with the North's growing nuclear capability comes just [...]

WASHINGTON – US President Barack Obama said on Saturday he was determined to carry out budget cuts needed to improve America's balance sheet, but insisted on making key investments in the country's future. The president unveils his spending blueprint on Monday, with White House officials saying it will freeze annual domestic spending for the next [...]

Black History Month was made for people like Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN). However, it increasingly looks as though the tea party heroine not only never paid attention to African-American history but seeks to re-write it in her own image. "Other than Native Americans who were here, all of us have the same story," Bachmann told [...]

Is he running for US Senate? Is he signaling his bid for US president? Or is he hinting at something deeper within the US political climate? Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) sounded like he was about to hit the campaign trail again during his speech at a right-wing forum Friday, but before he left the podium, [...]

WASHINGTON – US President Barack Obama said Friday the people of Egypt had spoken after history moved at a "blinding pace," and called on the now-ruling military to ensure a transition towards "genuine democracy." "The people of Egypt have spoken -- their voices have been heard and Egypt will never be the same," Obama said [...]

Access to the Internet and specifically social networking site Facebook made a huge difference to Egyptians who succeeded on Friday in forcing former President Hosni Mubarak out of power. But how important was it? "First Tunisia, now Egypt," began CNN host Wolf Blitzer. "What's next?" "Ask Facebook," answered Wael Ghonim, an Egyptian activist and the [...]

When the place and time of a workers' compensation hearing for a former Illinois state trooper was unexpectedly changed, some suspected that something shady had happened. It turns out they were right. E-mails obtained by the Belleville News-Democrat through the Illinois Freedom of Information Act showed that workers' compensation arbitrator Jennifer Teague sought to keep [...]

WASHINGTON – Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) said Thursday that President Barack Obama "absolutely" ought to face a Democratic primary challenge from the left in 2012, predicting it would make him "stronger." "I think primaries can have the opportunity of raising the issues and make the Democratic candidate a stronger candidate," Kucinich told CSPAN's Washington Journal. [...]

ZURICH - Switzerland has frozen assets possibly belonging to Hosni Mubarak, who stepped down as president of Egypt Friday after 30 years of rule, a spokesman for the foreign ministry said. "I can confirm that Switzerland has frozen possible assets of the former Egyptian president with immediate effect," spokesman Lars Knuchel said, declining to specify [...]

When Raw Story investigative reporter Brad Jacobson published his report on how 2 million dangerously mentally ill people are missing from America's national gun register, Russia's largest news network took notice. Appearing on Russia Today's The Alyona Show, he told the interviewer that gun laws in the states have become "extremely porous" thanks to a [...]

Follow the revolution live here Update: Egypt's military has dissolved the cabinet and sacked both houses of parliament, and will institute an interim government along with the head of the supreme constitutional court Egypt's 30 years under President Hosni Mubarak ended to thunderous cries of revolution on Friday, after millions of pro-democracy protesters who'd occupied [...]