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Ingo Walter and Jennifer Carpenter: Focus on changing the risk incentives of banks rather than the level of executive pay

France's new Socialist government is already causing ripples throughout a Europe struggling to balance government budgets without making ordinary people's lives miserable, but it has created a completely different problem in the Middle East.

Iran is taking on one of the world's biggest Internet giants, threatening to sue over something that is not on its maps.

Congressional Republicans are threatening another game of chicken with the debt ceiling. This will get America nowhere, says John Avlon.

Timothy Stanley says Obama must stay on the right side of moviemakers if he wants to use their cultural influence--and big donations--to get reelected

Orit Avishai says that touting breastfeeding as natural and intuitive creates unnecessary pressure on women who find it difficult

Congressional Republicans are threatening another game of chicken with the debt ceiling. This will get America nowhere, says John Avlon.

Despite the heated campaign, lackluster performance on the economy and negative feelings many conservatives have toward President Obama, many voters still like Obama as a person.

President Obama's re-election team has turned the candidate of hope and change into a ferociously political animal: The outsider who flew above polarized politics now does nothing but campaign and polarize.

The partisan impasse over potential contempt proceedings against Attorney General Eric Holder continues following a lengthy letter from the deputy attorney general, and a blunt response from the House Oversight Committee chairman.

Ballistics tests have linked the shooting deaths of two people along roadways in Mississippi, a source who has been briefed on the investigation said Thursday.

The remaining plaintiff in the sexual battery lawsuit against John Travolta fired his lawyer, bringing an end to the case, the lawyer told CNN on Thursday.

Audio captures Howard Dean's car crash during a radio interview.

The family of a Georgia student fighting a devastating flesh-eating bacterial infection was waiting to hear from doctors Thursday about whether her fingers will need to be amputated next.

Vermont's governor has signed a bill making it the first U.S. state to ban fracking, the controversial practice to extract natural gas from the ground.

Closing arguments are set for Thursday in the corruption trial of John Edwards, after his defense team rested its case without calling the former Democratic presidential candidate's ex-mistress to testify.

The Transportation Security Administration is failing to adequately report, track and fix airport security breaches, according to the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general.

Alabama senators approved a new bill aimed at improving the state's controversial immigration law Wednesday, but critics said the new measure might make things worse.

A New York medical examiner will begin an autopsy Thursday on Mary Kennedy, the estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was found dead at her Westchester County home.

Prosecutors shifted focused to the Srebrenica massacre Thursday as the war crimes trial of Ratko Mladic, who is accused of orchestrating a horrific campaign of ethnic cleansing during the bloody civil war that ripped apart Yugoslavia, continued.