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When the Libyan rebels went to look for someone to run their war economy, they went to an unlikely source: An economics teacher at the University of Washington.Ali Tarhouni fled Libya 40 years ago after speaking out against Moammar Gadhafi.

In Egypt, no one seems ready to predict what the government will look like after this fall's election.

Margaret Pease stands on a corner in downtown Pittsburgh, handing out doomsday pamphlets."JUDGMENT DAY FOLKS!" she yells with a volume that would make a drill sergeant proud.

In addition to the tens of thousands of people displaced by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami and subsequent radiation leak in Japan, tens of thousands of pets are also homeless.Many have been taken in by animal rescue groups — some of which sneaked into the exclusion zone surrounding the crippled

President Obama will ask Congress to allow FBI Director Robert Mueller to remain in his job an extra two years, a rare exemption that would give the U.S.

Host Michel Martin continues the conversation about Uganda's "Anti-Homosexuality Bill" that is expected to go to a vote this Friday.

Wounded troops often spend months in physical therapy to regain strength in their damaged bodies.