Brazil's chief justice has ruled in favor of a New Jersey man who has pursued a five-year court battle to gain custody of his son.

Along with fruit cake and caroling, one of the many traditions to look forward to in December is the annual "War on Christmas," in which religious and conservative activists and pundits accuse secularists and innocent fans of the phrase "Happy Holidays" of stripping Christianity from the occasion.

Rep. Parker Griffith, a conservative Democratic Congressman from northern Alabama, will announce today that he is switching from the Democratic to the Republican party, Politics Daily has confirmed with senior Democratic aides. The news was first reported by Josh Kraushaar in Politico

Want to keep IRS auditors away? Keep your earnings under $200,000 and they won't bother you 99 percent of the time.

Ann Nixon Cooper, the Atlanta centenarian lauded by President Barack Obama in his election night speech last year, has died. She was 107.

All that was missing was the champagne. Hours after a sunrise vote on health care, and with what is expected to be just one more perfunctory vote on Christmas Eve, Senate Democratic leaders staged a victory rally today to congratulate themselves and the interest groups who supported them.