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A Massachusetts town's recent ban on public swearing is a hopeless cause in a time when even mild-mannered Americans curse like sailors and the F-bomb fails to shock, John McWhorter writes.

A week before his committee is scheduled to hold a vote on a resolution holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa told the Department of Justice Wednesday it still has a chance to produce materials about the failed "Fast and Furious" gun-running operation and avoid a public vote.

Multiscreen gaming is emerging as a major trend as consumers increasingly access games through their PCs, consoles, tablets and smartphones.

The move comes less than two weeks after a jury acquitted the former presidential candidate on one of six counts in his corruption trial and deadlocked on the other five.

The U.N. peacekeeping chief says Syria is now in a civil war.

Turbulence forced a United Airlines flight bound for New York's LaGuardia Airport to land shortly after takeoff Tuesday night and sent five people to the hospital, a United spokeswoman confirmed.

An alleged criminal gang in Romania is caught on aerial surveillance video trying to pull off a heist on a moving truck.

President Obama and Mitt Romney gear up for a head to head battle. CNN's Jim Acosta reports.

In spite of ever rising tuition and ballooning student loan debts, a large majority of students still desire to attend college. Traditional notions are deeply engrained in the public's mind. College is considered the path to a better, higher paying job, the best way to make connections and propel a career, and a status symbol, especially for those who go to elite universities.

An Iowa business says some of Mitt Romney's staff were arrogant, rude and messed up her cafe during a campaign stop.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott tells CNN's John King why his state is focused on purging non-citizens from voter polls.

Federal prosecutors dropped the remaining charges against former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards on Wednesday, less than two weeks after his corruption trial ended in an acquittal and mistrial.

A toddler who was thrown from an SUV during a high-speed chase in Lubbock, Texas, has been released from the hospital, police said Wednesday.

German police have released a photograph of the 17-year-old known only as "Ray" who turned up at Berlin City Hall last year after claiming to have been living in the woods for five years.

The administration calls its policy on illegal immigrants "prosecutorial discretion." In reality, it means deporting hard-working immigrants, says Ruben Navarrette

The former coach pinned him down and engaged in oral sex, the alleged victim testified. "He told me that if I told anybody, that I would never see my family again."

Could the national conventions become more than just political rallies? That's what one political expert predicts with the Federal Elections Commission ruling that will allow people to text donations to the campaign of their choice.

Jeb Bush is being attacked for being a traitor to the conservative cause, but John Avlon says the former governor is just being rational 

Dean Baker says it's no surprise that the average American family lost almost 40% of their net worth. Blame it on Alan Greenspan

For some Florida voters, 2012 is starting to feel eerily like 2000. The electoral chaos that followed the disputed results of the state's presidential vote still leaves a bitter taste in the mouths of the state's civil rights activists to this day.