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A federal appeals court in Atlanta on Thursday blocked two more portions of Alabama's tough law against illegal immigration.

I don't know if Newt Gingrich should, will or even is thinking about getting out of the presidential race. Ditto for Rick Santorum and Ron Paul. I do know there are practical, political and one very big human reason that candidates stay in races past the time many think they should get out.

A U.S. district judge ordered New York City to pay nearly $129 million in back-pay to firefighters who allege the city used an entrance exam that deliberately sought to keep African-Americans and Latino Americans off the force. The judge also ordered the FDNY to hire 293 black and Latino applicants.

The suspected killers of Italian and British hostages who had been held in Nigeria have been arrested, an adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan said Thursday in a statement, according to the government-run Nigerian Television Authority.

The Senate narrowly rejected a Republican-sponsored measure that would have allowed construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline to begin.

Mississippi's Supreme Court upheld 214 pardons issued by Gov. Haley Barbour, saying the decision on if procedures were followed rests "solely with the governor."

Several people were shot Thursday by one or possibly two assailants inside the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, according to a Pittsburgh university.

Authorities from Italy to the United States arrested 10 people Thursday for allegedly capturing, viewing and disseminating images through an expansive international online pedophile network.

Pakistani authorities have started legal proceedings against al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's widows for allegedly entering Pakistan illegally and alleged forgery, Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik told reporters Thursday in Islamabad.

The Republican presidential candidates turned their focus to the heart of Dixie Thursday, in the strongly conservative states of Mississippi and Alabama.

S.E. Cupp says that the former vice presidential candidate appears to be squandering her considerable sway on a GOP candidate who doesn't share her values and can't win. Why?

Rep. Kucinich tells John King that Kaptur's campaign "lacked integrity" in their Ohio House race forced by redistricting.

Frida Ghitis says the only way war with Iran may be avoided is if the country believes an attack from the West is a real possibility.

The first complete gorilla genome has been mapped by scientists giving fresh insights into our own origins.

S.E. Cupp says that the former vice presidential candidate appears to be squandering her considerable sway on a GOP candidate who doesn't share her values and can't win. Why?

On first glance, the new, never-to-be-actually-named iPad is exactly the same as its predecessor: Same size, same price, same colors.

The United States is investigating allegations that some members of the Afghan Air Force have used their planes to transport drugs, a U.S. military spokesman said Thursday.

The saber-rattling between Iran and Israel conjures fears of mass casualties and a nuclear arms race in the Middle East.

Iran will not be able to use alliances with Latin America to wield significant influence on security in the West, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday.

The Pentagon tried to clarify remarks made by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, when he told a Senate committtee on Wednesday that the U.S. military is seeking "permission" from a foreign organization to intervene in Syria.