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Britain's Prince Harry has been serving on the frontline in Afghanistan since late December, the Ministry of Defense confirmed Thursday, after news of the royal's deployment was leaked by media outlets. The prince, 23, is third in line to the throne. He is serving in Afghanistan's Helmand province.

The Internal Revenue Service is investigating the tax-exempt status of the United Church of Christ for allowing presidential candidate Barack Obama to speak at a denomination conference last June. Obama is a member of the UCC through his Chicago church. Church officials say the speech was not political.

Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has accused her rival, Barack Obama, of distorting her views about health care and trade in a flyer he mailed to voters. Obama responded to the attack, defending the flyers' accuracy.

Vantage Point wants to suggest that no one point of view contains the truth but that you can find pieces of the puzzle within each.

There has been a big drop in violence in Baghdad since the U.S. troop surge was launched a year ago. But sectarian divisions have been enshrined in concrete and enforced by security groups that mistrust each other.

A federal appeals court has struck down the Bush Administration's "cap and trade" rule for power plants. The policy, which was set to go into effect in 2010, would have allowed power plants that fail to meet mercury emission targets to buy credits from plants that do, and thus avoid having to install their own emission controls.

A federal judge Wednesday heard arguments over whether President Bush can exempt the Navy from environmental laws. The Navy wants to continue its sonar training off the San Diego coast without restric

A Tel Aviv auction house has sparked controversy by auctioning off several items from the Holocaust including an identifying yellow Jewish star that the Nazis forced Jews to wear. Some Holocaust survivors say that the sale was an insult to the memory of the dead. The Israeli parliament is now debating a bill to ban future sales.

A federal judge has to decide whether to overrule President Bush on sonar testing restrictions. The Navy wants to conduct the tests off the San Diego coast. Environmental groups claim the exercises ha

The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on whether states may require government-issued photo identification cards as proof of identity for voters at the polls. At issue is a strict Indiana law, but many other states have similar laws.