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The vast majority of comedians lean to the left. Right-wing comedy is a rarity on the Internet. And Republicans are typically easier to make fun of than Democrats. But comedians shouldn't take a political stance when trying to be funny. That was the consensus of a panel of admittedly left-leaning comedy experts at South By Southwest Interactive, the digital culture festival under way in this Texas capital.

Newt Gingrich may occasionally refer to a Twitter hash tag as a hash mark but he is relying on the Internet to reach out to voters, one tweet and Facebook friend at a time.

All five remaining inmates held in the Mississippi pardons controversy have now been released from prison.

A suicide bomber targeted a funeral in northwest Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least 14 people and wounding 37 others, officials said.

At least 45 women and kids were killed in Homs, opposition activists said, after the U.N. special envoy to Syria and the country's leader discussed ending violence.

Tokyo was unbelievably cold, even though it was March.

Condolences, calls for justice and questions arose from across the political spectrum Sunday in response to news that a U.S. service member shot to death 16 civilians in Afghanistan.

An American soldier went on a house-to-house shooting spree in two villages in southern Afghanistan early Sunday, Afghan officials said, killing 16 people in what Afghanistan's president called an "unforgivable" crime.

Japan gathered Sunday amid tears, prayers and a moment of silence to mark the 1-year anniversary since a massive earthquake and tsunami killed thousands and triggered a nuclear crisis.

The latest Israeli airstrike in Gaza killed a 12-year-old boy Sunday, bringing the death toll to 18 from two days of bombing, Palestinian medical sources said.

Newt Gingrich may occasionally refer to a Twitter hash tag as a hash mark but he is relying on the Internet to reach out to voters, one tweet and Facebook friend at a time.

In the empty towns surrounding the ravaged Fukushima Daiichi power plant, piles of radioactive dirt serve as monuments to the difficulty of cleaning up the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.

The vast majority of comedians lean to the left. Right-wing comedy is a rarity on the Internet. And Republicans are typically easier to make fun of than Democrats. But comedians shouldn't take a political stance when trying to be funny. That was the consensus of a panel of admittedly left-leaning comedy experts at South By Southwest Interactive, the digital culture festival under way in this Texas capital.

Sohaib Athar was a 33-year-old IT consultant living in Abbottabad, Pakistan, last year when he settled in around midnight to get some work done.

Authorities have found the remains of 167 people, believed to be at least 50 years old, in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, officials said.

At least two people were killed and others were treated for wounds following explosions at a bus station in the Kenyan capital Saturday, the Red Cross said.

Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem say it's time to ask the FCC: Are stations carrying Limbaugh's hate-mongering show using their licenses "in the public interest?"

President Barack Obama's rebuke of Republicans who are "beating the drums of war" in encouraging the United States to take military action against Iran should be targeted not just toward those critics but also, and more important, toward the Israeli government.

Rick Perry's advice for Mitt Romney

Texas governor Rick Perry visits the CNN Grill at SXSW and talks with CNN's Peter Hamby about his debate stumbles.