Thanksgiving and national elections are held during the same month in this country, a coincidence that we should all especially take note of this year.

According to the New York Daily News, the government-initiated website "We The People" has been bombarded by petitions since the election.

WASHINGTON — Arizona has been in the union more than a century, but some residents appear to want out after the last election.

Karl Frisch

TUCSON – Gazing up at the mosaic dome of the old Pima County Courthouse, Paul Eckerstrom sees a potential capitol building for a 51st state: Baja Arizona.

TUCSON – Gazing up at the mosaic dome of the old Pima County Courthouse, Paul Eckerstrom sees a potential capitol building for a 51st state: Baja Arizona.

Maricopa County Republicans are moving to politically neuter a former state elected official.

Thanks to those who helped save the trees

With tax collections tanking and jobless rates at record highs, state legislators hundreds of miles from Washington have found an easy way to appeal to conservative voters: Bash the federal government.

COLUMBIA, S.C. - A black state senator is pushing a bill that would require South Carolina cities and counties to give their workers a paid day off for Confederate Memorial Day or lose millions in state funds.

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KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Kosovo - Up to 2,000 Serb protesters rallied against Kosovo's independence in the new nation's tense north on Monday, a few setting fire to EU flags in what has become a daily challenge to the country's secession from Serbia.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi and coalition forces have arrested the second most senior figure in al-Qaida in Iraq, Iraq's national security adviser announced on Sunday, saying the group now suffered from a "serious leadership crisis."

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi and coalition forces have arrested the second most senior figure in al-Qaida in Iraq, Iraq's national security adviser announced on Sunday, saying the group now suffered from a "serious leadership crisis."

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslav leader branded "the butcher of the Balkans" for orchestrating a decade of wars that eventually broke up his country and led to his war crimes trial, was found dead in his prison cell Saturday.