Aside from Bush, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, Congress member Paul Ryan and a good number of others have participated in the challenge. However, the Huffington Post said that their participation was in stark contrast to their political support regarding a bill that had reduced government funding for research on cure and treatment the debilitating disease.
The Defense Department violated U.S. law by failing to alert Congress before releasing five Taliban members held at Guantanamo Bay military prison in exchange for a captured U.S. soldier, a government watchdog agency said on Thursday.
A federal judge in north Florida on Thursday struck down the state's gay marriage ban as unconstitutional, but stayed the ruling, leaving same-sex couples still unable to marry in the state.
Germany's economy ministry will approve the sale of utility RWE's (RWEG.DE) oil and gas unit DEA to a Russian investor despite tensions between Russia and the West over theUkraine crisis, two people familiar with the matter said.
