Politics

This is the number one argument I often hear when speaking to Iranian youths internally and it's diaspora living abroad, while they peak with one eye at Gulf states like Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar & Kuwait and wondering, where are our riches? Where is our oil money? Iran’s crude oil...

A Kansas Republican finally admitted on Monday that it was “wrong” to say African-Americans are more likely to get hooked on marijuana because of “their genetics.” State Rep. Steve Alford caused outrage after a video recording revealed that he delivered the false and racist assessment during an...

Roseanne Barr thinks she has a better shot at the presidency this time. The 65-year-old actress, who placed sixth in the 2012 presidential race as the nominee for the Peace and Freedom Party, teased the possibility of another try, especially in light of calls for Oprah Winfrey...

Turkey will not accept a "privileged partnership" with the EU, the country's EU Minister Omer Celik has said. "If we are offered a privileged partnership, we will not even consider it, and simply reject," Celik told news channel Haberturk on Friday. German politicians lately proposed the "privileged partnership" for Turkey, instead...

The mayor hastily added a hearing for a controversial police reform bill to his schedule Monday — at a time when many of the activists opposed to it were mourning Erica Garner. Mayor de Blasio added the Right to Know Act to a slew of other, less...