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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Western powers are whipping up fear of chemical weapons as a pretext to intervene in Syria, President Bashar al-Assad's government said on Thursday, after several Western countries said they feared Assad might use poison gas. "Syria stresses again, for the tenth, the hundredth time, that if we had such …

House Republicans are privately contemplating a quiet surrender in the fight over Bush tax rates for top earners, and a quick pivot to a new fight over raising the debt limit, in which they'd demand steep cuts to programs like Medicare and Social Security. The White House's official position on this plan is: cram it. Officials …

Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Tells ABC News & Yahoo! News about his new Global Push to End Child Labor

U.S. officials say the Syrian military has loaded active chemical weapons into bombs and is awaiting a final order from embattled President Bashar Assad to use the deadly weapons against its own people. NBC News reports that on Wednesday the Syrian military loaded sarin gas into aerial bombs that could be deployed from …

Two Australian radio disc jockeys apologized Wednesday after impersonating Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles in a prank call and getting a London hospital to tell them all about Kate Middleton's condition.

After 'Escape' to Guatemala, McAfee Told ABC News He Felt Like He Was 'Home'

It may be just a bluff or a bargaining ploy, but the White House is signaling that President Barack Obama is willing to let the country go over the "fiscal cliff," a hard-line negotiating strategy aimed at winning concessions from Republicans on taxes.

Another national poll is out Thursday that shows Democrats winning the battle of perception on the "fiscal cliff" crisis. Fifty-three percent of registered voters told Quinnipiac University's Polling Institute that they believe the president and his party will make a "good-faith effort to cooperate with the Republicans" …

President Barack Obama is taking his campaign to raise taxes on the richest Americans right into the home of a middle-class family in Northern Virginia on Thursday, the White House said. Obama, locked in seemingly stalled negotiations with Republicans opposed to the tax hike, has been waging an aggressive PR war to keep …

Twinkling city lights, raging wildfires and colorful auroras are lit up in new dazzling nighttime views of the Earth.

The GOP strategy guru was a staple on Fox during the campaign. Then he quarreled on-air with the channel's decision to call the election for President Obama

If President Obama honestly wants to negotiate an agreement with Republicans before the year-end fiscal deadline, he must be deeply frustrated. And if he doesn't really want to negotiate with them, then he should be delighted, for the same reason: Their latest "offer" laid before him by House Speaker John Boehner demonstrates …

If the GOP wins, the biggest losers are states that voted for Mitt Romney. If Obama wins? Blue states pay up

Ah, the hypocrisy of tax-hikers who do everything they can to avoid the taxes they wish to impose on others.

I apologize to America's young people, whose dashed dreams and dim employment prospects I had laughed at, believing these to be a direct result of their voting for Obama.On closer examination, it turns out that young voters, aged 18-29, overwhelmingly supported Romney. But only the white ones.According to Pew Research, …

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Regional volatility, imported weapons from Libya, and a poisonous religious ideology have turned the West African nation into a new Afghanistan

"We do have a responsibility to create jobs," says CEO Tim Cook"Those jobs aren't coming back." That's what Steve Jobs said when President Obama asked him whether Apple would ever consider manufacturing its popular products in the U.S. But Jobs' successor, Tim Cook, has other ideas. In interviews with Bloomberg Businessweek …