
Home prices in nearly half of China’s major cities fell in February from a year-ago period, as Beijing showed its determination to tame the property market.

Conservative Republicans unveiled a budget blueprint that combines slashing cuts to safety net programs for the poor with sharply lower tax rates in an election-year manifesto painting clear differences with President Barack Obama.

More than 40 people were killed, and nearly 200 were wounded in Iraq after a wave of fatal bombings struck the towns and cities, in what has become the deadliest day in Iraq in nearly a month.

A study at Western Illinois University found that a higher level of engagement on the site could suggest “socially disruptive narcissism” traits.

Our friends at the Daily Caller have obtained video of what Congress of Racial Equality national spokesperson Niger Innis has rightly called “an orchestrated, heinous, and racist ‘Stepin Fetchit’ routine that Mr. Hanks was a part of.”

Appearing on “Late Show with David Letterman” Monday nigh,t a sarcastic Michelle Obama answered Lettermen’s question as to whether her husband ever says, “Oh, that Jon Boehner. What an idiot!”

Does capitalism and the free market make you selfish? Dennis Prager, best selling author and nationally syndicated talk show host, answers this question and challenges what for many has become conventional wisdom.

Speaking at the Left Forum on Saturday night, just hours before he was heckled at Occupy Wall Street, multi-millionaire Michael Moore openly rooted for anarchists and revolution .

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan details what the choice of two futures means: a path to debt and decline versus a stronger, more prosperous path of less debt, lower taxes, and greater opportunity for generations to come.

In an effort to fight crime and clean up the streets, Brazil has done something a little unusual and recruited Batman to patrol the crime ridden streets of Brazil.

Central banks are taking advantage of the fact that the price of gold dropped 3 percent last week. Reuters said that central banks bought about $250 million worth of gold last week through the Bank for International Settlements.

The state of New York will start collecting DNA samples for a permanent database from people who commit even the most minor crimes, like shoplifting or subway fare jumping.

The Army staff sergeant accused of slaughtering 16 Afghan civilians arrived at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, last Friday. Spokeswoman Rebecca Steed says Robert Bales is ‘already being integrated into the normal pretrial confinement routine.’

Police sources say gunmen linked to Al Qaeda killed an American working in Yemen on Sunday.

A sheriff says searchers have found the body of Edward Ristaino, the hot-air balloon pilot who went missing in south Georgia during a weekend thunderstorm.

Northern Ireland’s First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness met with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday.

The Presidential primary race for the republican nomination is halfway complete with front runners Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney in a cage match, trying to gather delegates and win the Illinois primary.