Nation and World
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Press advocates criticize judge
Mar 08, 2008 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- A judge is trying to bankrupt an ex-reporter with daily fines as much as $5,000 for refusing to disclose her sources for stories about the 2001 anthrax att...
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Treasures galore in Rome subway dig
Mar 08, 2008 10:00 pm - ROME -- A sixth-century copper factory, medieval kitchens still stocked with pots and pans, and remains of Renaissance palaces are among the finds unveiled Friday by arc...
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Studies: Iraq war will cost $12 billion a month in 2008
Mar 08, 2008 10:00 pm - The flow of blood may be ebbing, but the flood of money into the Iraq war is steadily rising, new analyses show. In 2008, its sixth year, the war will cost approximately...
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Obama takes Wyoming
Mar 08, 2008 10:00 pm - CASPER, Wyo. -- Sen. Barack Obama captured the Wyoming Democratic caucuses Saturday, seizing a bit of momentum in the close, hard-fought race with rival Sen. Hillary Rod...
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Don't return to cronyism, nepotismMar 08, 2008 10:00 pm - With Hillary Clinton recently staging a so-called comeback with primary victories in Ohio and Texas, it seems more likely than ever that a scenario will unfold in which ...
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States struggling with immigration bills, too
Mar 08, 2008 10:00 pm - State lawmakers around the country are proposing hundreds of bills this year aimed at curbing illegal immigration, but experts say the cost and public opposition will ke...
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Storm dumps snow on Midwest
Mar 08, 2008 10:00 pm - COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A heavy winter storm walloped Ohio's capital city with more than 20 inches of snow, while blizzard conditions shut down highways and stranded air trave...
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Judge fines reporter in anthrax suit
Mar 07, 2008 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- A federal judge held a former USA Today reporter in contempt Friday for refusing to identify her sources for stories about a former Army scientist under sc...
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Police release photos of suspect in killing of UNC student leader
Mar 07, 2008 10:00 pm - CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- Detectives are searching for a man photographed using the ATM card of the University of North Carolina student body president found shot to death on...
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Colombia apologizes for Ecuador raid
Mar 07, 2008 10:00 pm - SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- The presidents of Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela agreed Friday to resolve their angry recriminations over a cross-border Colombian ...