Benjamin Franklin, one of America's greatest minds and Founding Fathers, once declared, "In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes." Yet sometimes, taxes are far more painful and far more despised than death.

Every year on April 15, there are the same grumblings that come with taxes 8212; how much taxes one has to pay and how confusing the whole process seems.

While the United States reels from the terrible and soul-searching questions following the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and John Roll, a U.S. district court judge, a deeper and more terrible soul-searching occurs on the other side of the globe.

In Pakistan, the governor of Punjab province fell by the gun of his own bodyguard, who opposed the governor's progressive views on eliminating religious blasphemy laws.

When asked at his inaugural press conference to comment on the Congressional Budget Office's prediction that repealing the health care overhaul would expand the deficit by $230 billion, Speaker of the...

The TCU women's rifle team hopes to extend its 18-game winning streak when it competes against Air Force Sunday at the USAFA Cadet Rifle Range.

"We were ranked number one based upon the scores that were fired in the fall," head rifle coach Karen Monez said. "Now there's still a lot of shooting ahead of us in the next month, but we finished in a good spot at the end of the fall semester."

While many students were enjoying winter break, members of the rifle team were practicing their shooting technique and keeping up their skills.

The university will host a Rose Bowl celebration on Sunday in Daniel-Meyer Coliseum. The event will honor the football team's Rose Bowl win January 1, and their first undefeated season since 1938.

Although the celebration will take place two weeks after the Rose Bowl game, Athletics Media Relations Director Mark Cohen said the celebration will be for the TCU community after everyone has returned from Christmas break.

"If you are going to do some type of celebration you obviously want your student body to be a big part of it," Cohen said.

Burying a child is tough. Burying a child while protesters say she was killed because God is punishing the U.S. is probably close to impossible.

That would have been the case during the Thursday funeral of 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green, who was killed in the attack on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords last Saturday in Tucson, Ariz. But radio stations in Arizona and Canada offered airtime for Westboro Baptist Church so the church would not picket the funeral, according to a story by the AP.

A man from Rochester Hills, Mich. is in big trouble with his ex-wife for searching for clues of a suspected affair. Leon Walker, the third husband of Clara Walker, began snooping after Clara became extremely...