The perceived front-runner for the Republican nomination for president in 2012 officially threw his hat into the ring Monday afternoon. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, 64, opened a campaign committee with the Federal Election Commission and announced his intention to…

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President Obama, House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid emerged from a late night White House meeting Wednesday with no deal in place to avert a government shutdown. However, all three men said progress was made in…

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The federal government wants you to have access to a broadband connection. Badly. The Federal Communications Commission has held dozens of workshops and filed away more than 23,000 comments on its National Broadband Plan. "High-speed wireless service is…

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Hundreds of Syrians march from the Omayyed mosque in Damascus' Old City toward Souk Al-Hamadiyeh street on Friday, chanting: 'Daraa is Syria' and 'We will sacrifice ourselves for Syria.' (AFP/Getty Images) Protesters in the Southern Syrian city of Daraa…

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Defense Secretary Robert Gates speaks during a joint news conference with Afghan President Hamid Karzai Monday at the Presidential Palace in Kabul. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images) Defense Secretary Robert Gates is in Kabul for talks with U.S. military commanders…

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Two weeks after IBM's computer Watson trounced Jeopardy! masterminds Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, Rep. Rush Holt dealt the upstart trivia champion computer a defeat on Monday. The New Jersey Democrat beat the scrappy computer $8,600 to $6,200,…

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Anti-government protesters in Libya are calling for what organizers call a "day of anger" as dissent grows in the North African nation, part of the latest spate of unrest in the region, including a crackdown in the Persian Gulf…

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