The opium industry is largely funding the Taliban's war budget and is a major source of revenue for criminal groups and terrorists in Afghanistan.

The No. 2 leader in Al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, is dishing out criticism and offering a warning to United States President-Elect, Barack Obama. A new audio message has surfaced online where Al-Zawahiri calls Obama a dishonorable man.

Two researchers from the School of Optometry of the Université de Montréal have discovered how to train the brain of athletes to improve their overall athletic performance.

CitiGroup Inc. is reporting they will layoff an additional 53,000 employees after suffering massive losses and eroding debt.

When a 22-year-old heartbroken man from West Germany got dumped over the phone by his 17-year-old girlfriend he wanted to end his life. He ended up alive but in jail charged with murder, attempted murder and grievous bodily harm.

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.

Sarah Palin thought Africa was a country. Newt Gingrich considers a run for RNC Chairman, the Ku Klux Klan and Black Panthers show up in election coverage and during events. These are the top stories making news right now.

If the talking heads had their way with interest regulation, we would have collapsed long ago. If they have their way with perpetuation of the system.

Election day is here and America is currently voting for its next president. We have live results, state by state, along with a live blog, where journalists and citizen journalists discuss the race to the White House. Join the conversation now!

A Kenyan woman living in Boston's public housing has been there four years after being instructed to leave the United States by a U.S. immigration judge. This wouldn't be big news except for the fact that Zeituni Onyango is the aunt of Barack Obama.

Could Sarah Palin become the next Oprah? How did one desperate woman react to her foreclosed home? Why are experts predicting a mismatch in the upcoming Oscar de la Hoya fight? Find out the answers in the top stories making news right now.

It's been 12 years since the world met Tickle Me Elmo, a furry doll that laughed when you hugged it. Fisher-Price is now introducing Elmo Live, a talking, dancing and joke-telling robot. In this episode, we go underneath the red fur to see how it works.

According to The Hill, police departments nationwide are beefing up their ranks and preparing for the possibility of urban and other unrest on Election Night, particularly the scenario of an Obama loss and resultant violence should the vote be disputed.

United States Representative and former GOP Presidential hopeful Ron Paul of Texas still has much criticism towards the hefty $700 billion bailout of Wall Street.

A London gallery exhibit is displaying reworked images of cartoon characters engaged in random acts of gory violence. But is the artist worried about the impact on children and thorny legality issues?

Microsoft announced it will release the next chapter in the Halo saga in fall 2009 for the Xbox 360. Halo 3: Recon stars a new hero in the first-person shooter video game and serves as a prequel to Halo’s epic storyline.

Ten years. Can you believe it has already been ten years together? Time flies. It really does. It has been a remarkable journey, and I want you to know, Tomas Kaberle, that I love you.

The National Debt Clock in the New York shows the current U.S. government’s debt. The counter is running out of space, as debt is rising at a furious rate.

Rep. Barney Frank, who has already been taking heat for his personal and financial involvement in the Fannie Mae collapse, made the ultimate mistake of appearing on Bill O'Reilly. This one's pure heat, and already has 316,000 hits on YouTube in 24 hours.

A proposal by the Open Debate Coalition, to allow the public to submit questions directly to the candidates without media filtering, has been endorsed by the McCain-Palin Campaign. The Obama campaign has not responded.