President Obama is blaming the House GOP for holding the government hostage and causing the government shutdown.

A former animator with Disney, turned historian believes he has discovered a rare photograph of Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg.

The letter, signed by Carlos Slim and two other heads of large Mexico corporations, names names. A construction-materials transportation syndicate as well as a new rapid-transit bus project have been infiltrated by organized crime, accuse the firms.

Just before President Barack Obama delivered his remarks at the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, Brazil’s president issued a scathing rebuke of the National Security Agency’s spying programs and called on the UN to establish a new global legal system to protect the “neutrality of the network, guided only by technical and ethical criteria”.

President Obama urged the American people to demand congress pass new gun control legislation while giving a memorial speech for those killed in the Navy Yard shooting.

Correa, who was in Cuba to take a tour of homes for Hurricane Sandy victims built by Ecuadorian military engineers, said he spoke with Fidel Castro for two hours and praised him as the "living history of Latin America".

Hiroshi Yamauchi, former President of Nintendo, has died of pneumonia at the age of 85. Yamauchi is credited with launching Nintendo from a trading card company to a video game giant.

The president of Brazil has canceled her trip to the U.S after allegations the NSA was spying on the Brazilian people.

In Peña Nieto’s first eight months on the job, murder rates have fallen sharply. But kidnapping and extortion has gone up significantly, suggesting that the Mexican president’s security record may be more of a mixed bag than he’d like to admit.

The television journalists showed frustration on his social network for not granting an interview to the Hispanic network.

CBS correspondent Charlie Rose interviewed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad about the use of chemical weapons on Syrian civilians.

President Obama plans to take executive action on gun control.

Nintendo’s president shares his thoughts on the launch lineups for PS4 and Xbox One.

The President of Colombia is ready to begin peace talks with the rebel group ELN.

Twitter users went into overdrive on Wednesday, reacting to a video of a speech made by Nicolás Maduro in the Venezuelan state of Miranda in which the president made what ranks among his worst verbal gaffes.

Four destroyer ships are waiting in the Mediterranean Sea for the order from President Obama to attack Syria.

Farmers strikes in Colombia have reached its' second week. Protesters are angry over the President's free trade agreement with the US and the EU.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was skewered along with a handful of other Latin American and Spanish political figures on “La Isla Presidencial” (“The Presidential Island”), a popular Venezuelan animated show. Last Friday, Maduro panned the show’s acerbic take on him.

The Obama administration has spoken out against breed specific legislation.

Analysts say Ted Cruz is technically a dual citizen of both nations.

President Obama appeared on Jay Leno's show to talk about Snowden and the closing of the embassies.

Obama cancels meeting with Putin in Moscow amid tensions over NSA leaker Snowden.

Mexico's president to undergo surgery at the end of the month.

The 41st president of the United States, George H.W. Bush shaved his head to support Patrick, a 2-year-old leukemia patient who is the son of a member of the former commander-in-chief's Secret Service detail.

Dot Scott, NAACP President calls for justice for both Trayvon Martin and Marley Lion.

Michele Bachmann tells Congress to "spank" Obama by halting immigration reform.

After allegations that the United States has spied on Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto says if the rumors are true, what the US is doing is "totally unacceptable."

The President of Chile praised the decision of an 11-year-old girl when she decided to keep her rapists baby.

The outgoing President of Iran calls his denial of the Holocaust his proudest achievement.

Egypt's first freely elected president Mohamed Morsi overthrown as protests grow.