With unemployment spiking and black leaders calling on Obama to tackle problems in minority communities, a new poll suggests growing disillusionment amongst African-Americans with the country’s first black president.
On Friday afternoon Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (pictured) will hand over a formal application seeking full UN membership for the Palestinian Territories, despite disapproval from the US, which plans to veto the move.
Soon after President Barack Obama ruled out a “shortcut” to a Palestinian state Wednesday, his French counterpart took to the stage to make a proposal: non-member statehood. Widely expected not to take flight, is the stunt driven by ulterior motives?
Diplomats from dozens of Western nations walked out of the UN General Assembly hall Thursday as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivered scathing attacks on the US and Western Europe.
Smiley, brash, and buoyed by the blessing of the Tea Party, Texas Governor Rick Perry has soared to the top of the field of Republicans vying to evict Obama from the White House. But some party leaders and strategists wonder if he is up to the task.
Stocks were down Wednesday as the US Federal Reserve announced a radical plan to shift $400 billion in short-term bonds to longer-term Treasury bonds, in a bid to lower interest rates and jumpstart the country's flagging economy.
Troy Davis, convicted of the 1989 slaying of a police officer in Savannah, Georgia, was put to death by lethal injection on Wednesday after the US Supreme Court decided against issuing a stay of execution.
The case of Troy Davis, an African-American scheduled to be executed in Georgia Wednesday for killing a white police officer, has added new urgency to arguments that the US justice system is racially discriminatory.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy called for an end to "endless debates" and proposed a one-year timetable for a Mideast peace accord on Wednesday, while warning that a veto of the Palestinian bid for UN membership could spark "a cycle of violence".
Middle East peace cannot be achieved through resolutions at the UN but only through compromise, US President Barack Obama told the General Assembly Wednesday as he sought to defuse a diplomatic standoff over a Palestinian bid for full UN membership.
