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Bess writes: Good news from Iran. Especially if you’re a woman and accused of adultery. Death by stoning, the legal penalty for sexual infidelity is apparently off the menu. According to the BBC, a spokesman for the state judiciary says...

AP - Iran responded to incentives aimed at defusing a dispute over the country's nuclear program on Tuesday, the State Department and an EU diplomat said, adding that the response will now be studied by the six nations that devised the package.

AP - Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, speaks with media during a joint press conference with his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Aug.

By Debbie Schlussel Well, folks, here it is--the beginning (or maybe the middle) of the end of America as we know it. Tyson Foods is now ending employees' paid day off for Labor Day and, instead, giving 'em the paid day off for the Muslim festival, Eid[...]

AP - Somali immigrants Abdinasir Abib, Aydurus Farah and Abdiaiz Hassan, from left, sit on the front stoop of a downtown shop, Sunday, July 27, 2008, in Postville, Iowa.

Scores of Somali immigrants are taking jobs at the nation's largest kosher meatpacking plant, replacing Hispanic workers arrested in a huge immigration raid and forcing a remote Iowa town to make another cultural shift. Somali immigrant Aydurus Farah[...]

In the back of many minds has been an unsettling scenario where, in his final five months in office, lame-duck President Bush will take us to war with Iran. When mentioned openly, people casually brush it off and point out...

Calculated political ploy. Timely foreign outreach. A dash of each? Ask voters across the country about Barack Obama's image-packed week of foreign travel and you'll get a mix of admiration, suspicion, even a couple of bored shrugs. Dale Whitesell, 54,[...]

The United States has reiterated that its planned missile defense system in Europe is not directed against Russia but rather against the growing threat from rogue nations such as Iran, according to a senior U.S. military official.

AP - Iran center Asghar Kardoust Poustinsaraei, top, and Dallas Mavericks forward James Singleton grapple over the ball during the first half of the Rocky Mountain Review NBA basketball summer league game Saturday, July 19, 2008, in Taylorsville, Utah. [...]