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The 2010 Census continued to miscount the same groups that it has had problems keeping track of in the past — minorities, renters and young men — but overall was essentially accurate, officials said Tuesday.

Nation & World briefing WASHINGTON -- Ryan Crocker, the unflappable diplomat who became the civilian face of America's wars in Iraq and

The president of Iraq's self-rule Kurdish region demanded Wednesday that Shiite leaders agree on sharing power with their political opponents by September or else the Kurds could consider breaking away from Baghdad.

Military veterans are trading green fatigues for green thumbs in San Diego.

There’s a proud tradition of service members and veterans of the military serving in Congress, but a new generation of political leaders, forged by tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, are poised to possibly join their ranks next year. The 2012 elections could send as ma …

Tensions are high in Lebanon, where sectarian clashes linked to the conflict in Syria have erupted. DW spoke to Rouzbeh Parsi from the EU Institute for Security Studies in Paris about the implications of the violence.

Pyongyang, May 23 (KCNA) -- The KCNA Tuesday issued an indictment accusing the U.S. of its unethical human rights abuses. The political rights of the majority of the toiling masses are being wantonly violated by money and power in the U.S. styling itself "Heaven of liberty and democracy".

Female soldiers this week are moving into new jobs in once all-male units as the Army breaks down formal barriers in recognition of what's already gone on in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Fifty years on, Michael Harrington's book resonates in its impassioned look at one of the country's 'greatest scandals.' Michael Harrington's "The Other America: Poverty in the United States" had been in print for about 20 years when I first read it in the early 1980s. I was a young journalist then, and I had found a musty paperback edition in a basement-level used bookstore around the corner ...

More than one out of every five new hires made by the Tulsa Police Department has a military background. "We're seeing more because of the conflicts in countries," said Sgt. Mark Sherwood, the department's lead recruiter. "People are coming out looking for jobs. We have seen quite an increase in th... By Jaime Adame.