Jasper Howard, a U Conn cornerback, was stabbed on Sunday morning after 12:30 a.m. on Hillside Road near the center of campus. U Conn officials are holding a press conference that began at 2:30 p.m. today to discuss the incident.

Republican Representative Steve King of Iowa introduced HR 997: The English Language Unity Act would establish English as the official language of the United States.

FIRE stands for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. They sent a letter to President Barack Obama this week asking him and his administration to stop American colleges from infringing on the free speech rights of their students.

Republican lawmakers in the Colorado legislature don't want the detainees that are going to be released from Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba to be housed at Supermax which is a maximum-security federal penitentiary located in Fremont County.

The 2006 Immigration Security and Compliance Act passed by the Georgia legislature hasn't been enforced due to lack of knowledge by state agencies and lack of funding by the legislature.

Embattled Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has appointed former Attorney General Roland Burris to fill President-Elect Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat. While Illinois Attorney General in 1992, Burris sought the death penalty for an innocent man.

The San Francisco 49ers close out their season against the Washington Redskins and team officials are expected to remove the interim head coaching label from Mike Singletary and offer him a multi-year contract.

The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled earlier today that the state Canvassing Board can't be forced to count alleged duplicate ballots for Al Franken. Republican incumbent Senator Norm Coleman's campaign wanted this done rather than having a court hearing.

Although many people and organizations within the U.S. energy industry have publicly praised President-elect Barack Obama's choices to head the EPA and DOE, respectively; things will never be the same for the oil, coal and nuclear sectors.

Former GOP presidential candidate and current Representative Ron Paul of Texas believes that the Republicans only cared about maintaining and accumulating political power while forgetting their core principles of reducing the size of government.

Sherwood Ross of Global Research interviewed 100 voters over the past two days in the Miami-Dade County area of Florida and determined that the Sunshine State might go to Senator Barack Obama over Arizona's John McCain.

Mahmoud al-Zahar is the leader of Hamas in Gaza. He claimed today at a press conference in Syria that American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently sent Hamas a letter praising them for maintaining a cease fire in the Gaza Strip.

Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader pens a scathing critique of what caused the current problems on Wall Street but conveniently neglects to mention the roles of Joe Biden and former President Clinton in the financial mess.

Democrats are linking incumbent and challenger Republican candidates to President Bush's failed attempt in 2005 to offer younger workers the option of investing their Social Security retirement funds into the stock market.

The House of Representatives rejected the $700 billion bailout plan to the nation's mortgage securities. The vote was 228-205 and the Dow Jones reacted by plummeting 777.68 points.

Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr has filed a lawsuit with the Texas Supreme Court contending that Barack Obama and John McCain should be removed from the Texas ballot because they missed the state filing deadline.

Vermont Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. He doesn't believe that Dr. Bruce Ivins was the only person involved in the deadly Fall 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five and sickened 17 others.

Although Ward Connerly hasn't had much success reducing affirmative action, he is regarded highly within the conservative movement. In 2003, his two nonprofit agencies paid him $314,079 to manage two people.

Former President Bill Clinton will soon begin campaigning for Barack Obama helping the Illinois Senator in his quest for the presidency against Republican nominee John McCain of Arizona.

Commercial pilot, flight instructor and professional engineer Bob Conley is running as a fiscally conservative, pro-life, pro-Second Amendment Democrat against pro-amnesty, pro-free trade and pro-Iraqi War Republican Lindsey Graham.