Kenyon College student Ann Shikany couldn't wait to vote for the first time. When she finally got the chance, she waited. And waited. Complete Story...
While the 2008 presidential candidates are taking potshots at each other, some young Americans are taking shots at the entire two-party system.
In a Nov. 29 story about the 1947 U.N. vote to partition British mandate-ruled Palestine, The Associated Press erroneously reported the two-year war that followed the vote cost Israel 10 percent of its population in war dead. According to Israel's Foreign Ministry, 6,373 people, or nearly 1 percent of the Jewish population, were killed during Israel's War of Independence.
The latest dilemma facing Democrat Barack Obama? Energy or Oprah.
It was one of the most dramatic moments in the modern history of the Middle East — the world's nations voting one by one in the U.N. General Assembly to partition the Holy Land into separate Jewish and Arab states.
CBS News writers authorized their union leaders to call a national strike, the Writers Guild of America said Monday, escalating a labor impasse.
Election time is a unique moment for Palestinian refugees in Jordan: A chance to try to improve their lot in their adopted land and press their dreams of returning to homes in what is now Israel.
Visions of Republican elephants and Democratic donkeys are out. Today's young adults don't think red or blue either when they describe the two major political parties.
Voters in Canada's most populous province re-elected the Liberals as the majority party in Ontario's legislature Wednesday.
Shareholders of the nation's only two satellite radio companies are scheduled to vote Nov. 13 on Sirius Satellite Radio Inc.'s proposed multibillion-dollar acquisition of XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc.
A woman who faced up to 90 days in jail for registering her dog to vote has agreed to a deal that could remove the charge from her record.
Voters have a chance on Tuesday to return this northern Alabama city to the days of Prohibition.
Many blacks and Muslims in the troubled neighborhoods ringing French cities voted for the first time, saying they were motivated by one desire: to stop law-and-order, tough-on-immigrants Nicolas Sarkozy from becoming president.
A movement to essentially dump the Electoral College and give the presidency to the winner of the nationwide popular vote has been defeated in North Dakota and Montana, after opponents said it would eliminate any influence states may have in presidential contests.
Ohio State's Jim Tressel did not vote in this week's USA Today coaches' poll to avoid the perception of a conflict of interest, a move the newspaper said could jeopardize his future in the selection process.
Voters in a breakaway Georgian region cast ballots Sunday in a referendum that separatist leaders hope will reaffirm their independence bid, but that Georgia has warned will only raise tensions.
The city has stopped offering free flu shots at early voting sites after Republicans alleged it was a ploy by the mayor to lure more Democrats to the polls.
Don't feel like standing in line on Election Day? In Denver, you can get a limo ride to the polls if you take advantage of early voting Saturday.
A group of students at Randolph-Macon Woman's College sued the school Friday, challenging its decision to begin admitting men next fall.
More than 200 Randolph-Macon Woman's College students have suspended their boycott of classes in protest of the decision to allow men to the 115-year-old women's college.
An overwhelming majority of voters in the breakaway Trans-Dniester region approved the separatist government's bid to eventually join Russia, election officials said Monday after balloting that Moldova says it won't recognize.
One vote that Senate candidate Ned Lamont knew he could count on in his Democratic primary victory has been disqualified — his daughter's.
Thousands of Mexicans living in the United States traveled by plane, bus and car to Mexican border cities to vote in Sunday's hotly contested presidential election. For some, it was a futile journey.
"Definitely Maybe," the debut album by Oasis, has beaten the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" in a British vote for the greatest album of all time, organizers said Thursday.
Two centuries after lawmakers arrived in the federal city and nearly a hundred years after the last expansion of Congress, a bipartisan group of House members says it's time to give residents of the nation's capital a vote there.