Mar 21, 2012 – A transgender student living as a man is fighting Miami University in Ohio after the school banned him from working in an all-male dorm and instead gave him a position in women's housing. Kaeden Kass, a junior at the prestigious public university, applied to be a resident assistant at the...

Mar 21, 2012 – A Boston University sorority has been suspended following reports of a hazing incident involving alcohol. The Sigma Delta Tau sorority is being investigated by school officials after the Boston University Police Department stopped three men carrying members of the sorority down a street in the city's Allston neighborhood March 3, Fox...

Mar 21, 2012 – While his GOP rivals are with constant Secret Service protection, Ron Paul says he's skipping the government-provided security because it is a "form of welfare." The Texas congressman discussed the ins and outs of the race for the Republican nomination last night on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno while Mitt...

Mar 21, 2012 – Police and fire authorities in Forth Worth are investigating an arson attack on a Texas state senator's legislative offices, myFOXDFW reported. Officials say two Molotov cocktails were thrown into State Sen. Wendy Davis’ Forth Worth office Tuesday afternoon. Sen. Davis was not in her office at the time, but two of her...

Mar 21, 2012 – Mexican officials were assessing damage Wednesday, a day after a strong earthquake left homes in ruins and rattled residents hundreds of miles away. At least 11 people were injured in the 7.4-magnitude quake, which hit mid-day Tuesday in southern Mexico. Its epicenter was about 15 miles (25 kilometers) east of Ometepec, Guerrero.

Mar 21, 2012 – The Obama administration’s energy policy chief on Tuesday gave himself an A for controlling gas prices that have reached a record high at pumps across the country, drawing criticism and even chortles from Washington Republicans. Energy Secretary Steven Chu made the comment during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing...

Mar 21, 2012 – The U.S. Postal Service wants small businesses to send more direct mail, a.k.a. junk mail, to help the beleaguered agency expand its revenue stream by hundreds of millions of dollars. In a campaign called "Every Door Direct Mail," the Postal Service is touting a year-old online tool to help small businesses...

Mar 21, 2012 – An actor in the Harry Potter movies was jailed for two years Tuesday for his role in riots that swept London last summer. Jamie Waylett, 22, who appeared as Hogwarts school bully Vincent Crabbe in six Harry Potter films, was found guilty of violent disorder at Wood Green Crown Court, in...

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Apr 6, 2012 – President Obama suggested this evening that the Republican governing agenda will lead to "poisoning our kids" with pollution. "I believe that it is part of our solemn responsibility to future generations that we look after this planet; that we make sure our air is clean and our water is...

Apr 6, 2012 – Speculation that Rick Santorum may drop out of the presidential race soon is growing, and confusion among some campaign staffers has done little to dampen that view. Santorum met Thursday with top conservatives to discuss what the campaign could do to right its course, a meeting his top aides...

Apr 6, 2012 – The economy added 120,000 jobs in March, well below what economists predicted, while the unemployment rate ticked down slightly to 8.2 percent. The number is nearly half of the 210,000 expected and ends the streak of three straight months when the economy added more than 200,000 jobs, according...

Apr 6, 2012 – When Apostolos Polyzonis's bank refused to see him last September, the 55-year-old Greek businessman had just 10 euros ($13) in his pocket. Out of work and bankrupt, he thought all he could do with his remaining money was to buy a gas can. Desperate and angry, Polyzonis stood outside...

Apr 6, 2012 – The Turkish government reported a record number of refugees fleeing Syrian military offensives across the border, just days before a Syrian government pledged to withdraw military forces from population centers. In 24 hours at least 2,741 Syrians fled down smugglers' paths to the barbed wire border fence, where they...

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Apr 5, 2012 – Not everything should be bigger in Texas. A Texas hospital has reportedly instituted a hiring policy barring potential employees who are obese -- and officials at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission tell FoxNews.com that the practice is not explicitly discriminatory. The policy, which was instituted last year at...

Apr 5, 2012 – World food prices are likely to rise for a third successive month in March, and could gain further beyond that, with expensive oil and chronically low stocks of some key grains putting food inflation firmly back on the economic agenda. Food prices grabbed world policy makers' attention after hitting...

Apr 5, 2012 – Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell blasted President Obama on Thursday, telling him to "back off" from comments earlier this week where he appeared to question the constitutional powers of the Supreme Court and the possibility that it could overturn his health care law. "The president crossed a dangerous line...

Apr 5, 2012 – British satellite news broadcaster, Sky News, part-owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, acknowledged on Thursday that its journalists had hacked e-mail messages at least twice in search of news stories, suggesting for the first time that Britain’s hacking scandal has spilled into television broadcasting. A journalist for the...

Apr 5, 2012 – In another black eye for Newt Gingrich, the flagship of what's known in Washington as "Newt, Inc.," has filed for bankruptcy. In a Chapter 7 filing in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Georgia, The Gingrich Group LLC, doing business as the Center for Health Transformation, filed for...

Apr 5, 2012 – Democrat Ron Barber raised almost $550,000 in the first seven weeks of his campaign to finish the term of former Rep Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), his campaign announced Thursday. Barber’s campaign said 3,293 individuals had pitched in since he announced in February his campaign for the special election. "I...