Tonight on Larry King Live , Eric Massa refused to answer the CNN host's question about his sexuality, instead side-stepping the issue by saying "It insults every gay American because it classifies people. Why would anyone even ask that question?"

Tonight on The O'Reilly Factor , Fox Business' John Stossel came on the show to talk about legalizing prostitution, as it would allow local government to take a hand in what is thought of as a largely crime and drug-riddled culture. Bill O'Reilly does ...

Wow, The Washington Post 's Andrew Alexander certainly has been keeping himself busy. Just yesterday the ombudsman had to untangle the complicated web of conflicting Rahm Emanuel stories in the same paper. Today he's getting emails and calls from irate...

Here's a new one that's getting everyone on the Internet worked up: an ESPN blog today claimed that the Obama administration is very close to an initiative that could "prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing the nation's oceans, coastal areas, Great Lake...

Apple COO Tim Cook's warning from early 2009 wasn't the only one that handset makers received before Apple sicced the lawyers on HTC last week. According to a research note from Oppenheimer analyst Yal Reiner, Apple began warning to...

A typical neuroscience paper (or a typical report on one) is a laundry list of structure:function relationships between brain regions and the mental tasks they perform. The amygdala deals with registering rewards, the hippocampus h...

Facebook is allegedly planning to roll out location sharing capabilities next month, once again playing catch-up to other services that have gained popularity thanks to location data. The rumor comes courtesy of anonymous sources who have been "b...

The Microsoft browser ballot released this month to Windows users in the EU is already doing Microsoft's rivals a favor. Two of the major competitors to Internet Explorer have seen an increase in downloads, while the other two are not willing to ...

EFF laywer says Apple's developer agreement is one-sided and favors Apple over innovation.

Another Sun executive walks away from Oracle.

Mozilla developers hope JagerMonkey will propel Firefox to the front of the browser pack in Javascript performance.

The future of warfare will be open source, cheap and robots, robots, robots.

(CN) - San Francisco police officers who fatally shot a man after a warrantless entry into the apartment where he was staying are not immune from charges because they may have "intentionally or recklessly" violated the man's Fourth Amendment right...

SANTA ANA, Calif. (CN) - The chairman of an Irvine, Calif.-based investment firm and his girlfriend were arrested Tuesday and charged with running an $8 million Ponzi scheme that targeted Korean-Americans throughout California.

WASHINGTON (CN) - Israel announced on Tuesday confrontational plans to construct 1,600 homes for ultra-Orthodox Jews in the East Jerusalem area slated by Palestinians for their future capitol, wthin a day of visiting Vice President Joe Biden's res...

(CN) - The 9th Circuit dismissed a class action accusing Wells Fargo of charging excessive underwriting fees. The three-judge panel said the law "does not reach the practice of 'overcharging.'"

So I went to the Treasury department with a bunch of other bloggers yesterday, and spoke with...

Jonathan Bernstein says that healthcare can't fail:

For the second year in a row, a suit retailer is including a special new feature in its annual sale...

Felix Salmon savages the New York Times, and Gretchen Morgenstern in particular, for the claim that...

The AJC's Cynthia Tucker blogged today about a testy exchange we had last summer on ABC's "This Week" regarding government unemployment benefits and the effect that endless extensions have on reducing the incentive to seek a job. Once again, she mistak...

Longtime readers know I love to fish and have been at war with the anti-fishing nuts at PETA for years. JWF flags a story today from ESPN about Obama regulatory maneuvers that look to limit fishing access: The Obama administration will accept no more ...

Okay, this week is grossing me out. Can we hit the reset button? We've gone from crapweasel Eric Massa's claims about naked shower summits with Rahm Emanuel to a Florida GOP Senate spat over...back wax. Really. FOX NEWS' VAN SUSTEREN: And sort of a pun...

Mark Krikorian is fighting back against Census form race politics and urging you to do the same: Fully one-quarter of the space on this year's form is taken up with questions of race and ethnicity, which are clearly illegitimate and none of the governm...

If this photo were a genetics lesson, could you spot what's wrong?

Following the massive earthquake that struck on Feb. 27, scientists have flocked to Chile with the goal of picking up enough clues to one day predict when the next big one will strike.

By Brad Gilligan Merging television and the internet is not a new idea, but Google's partnership with Dish Network could be a step toward bringing the concept into the mainstream. Google is testing a new search service that digs through television pr...

Some of Sprint's line of 4G wireless broadband products. (Omar L. Gallaga / NPR and Austin American-Statesman) By Omar L. Gallaga On this week's All Tech Considered segment (two parts), we discuss the new wave of wireless broadband products...

Salon's Glenn Greenwald made some pretty salient observations about the label "terrorism" in his Friday column: Terrorism is simultaneously the single most meaningless and most manipulated word in the American political lexicon.A The term now has virt...

Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Indiana) announced today that he would not seek reelection - just days before Indiana's Friday deadline for the 4,500 signatures required for candidacy in the race. As TPM reports: R.J. Gerard, communications director for the Indiana ...

There was a bit of a brouhaha yesterday when Clerks director Kevin Smith was told by Southwest Airlines that he was too big to fly in a single seat. The details are available for anyone interested enough to type "kevin smith" and "southwest" into Googl...

Handing terror suspects over to military tribunals represents a major expansion of executive power, and a subtraction of power from the judiciary. To justify this shift, advocates of military tribunals need to explain how the judicial branch is unable ...

03/07/2010 On the eve of the 45th anniversary of the aBloody Sundaya march that galvanized support for the Voting Rights Act, a congressional delegation led by U.S. ...

03/02/2010 The number of extremist groups in the United States exploded in 2009 as militias and other groups steeped in wild, antigovernment conspiracy theories expl...

02/18/2010 Since the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, the Southern Poverty Law Center has documented 75 domestic terrorist plots, most of which involved individuals wi...

02/16/2010 In a victory for migrant workers, the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled today in an SPLC case that a Haitian immigrant injured in company-provided housin...

A reader writes: I was watching the aFired Upa clip you posted this morning and something occurred to me regarding the President; what people seem to fail to grasp, and what Obama does, is that the President is not a...

Matt and Trey up the ante on reality:

Oh, this is getting good. What's that I hear in the background? Meep, meep.

Rocky Galloway (L) and Reggie Stanley (R) hug each other during their wedding on March 9, 2010, the first day same-sex couples are legal to wed in Washington, DC. The couple's two daughters attended the wedding. By Alex Wong/Getty Images.... ...

Back in October we wrote about Appboy , a social network for mobile app developers and users. Since launching, Appboy has continued to evolve into a community for both developers and users to find and rate apps, as well as submit ideas for new mobile a...

Today at the Google's Campfire One event at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, California, the Internet search giant is launching its new app store for business, known as the Google Apps Marketplace. Last week, we broke the story of today's G...

Spam and phishing have been ongoing problems at Twitter for some time, and tonight the company announced that it is stepping up its efforts to stop them with some new features, described as being able to adetect, intercept, and prevent the spread of ba...

Googleas call for medium-sized cities to pilot its high-speed broadband network has attracted the marketing wit of another locale: Greenville, South Carolina. Citizens of Greenville have launched the a We Are Feeling Lucky a campaign a- an obvious play...

M y flight had been delayed, so I arrived late to a 2004 academic conference, a law school gab-fest exploring legal issues in the War on Terror. The professor giving the keynote address was well into his remarks when I sheepishly entered the rear of th...

I n his State of the Union address, President Obama mentioned the protections enshrined in the Constitution and said, aNo matter who you are or what you look like, if you abide by the law, you should be protected by it.a Obama followed this lofty rheto...

K arl Rove -- the George W. Bush confidante who needs no introduction -- has written a memoir of his life in politics, Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight , which is released today. It includes an intimate look at Rove, his ...

A s reported by the Washington Post : aPresident Obamaas proposed budget would add more than $9.7 trillion to the national debt over the next decade.a CNN adds , aOf that amount, an estimated $5.6 trillion will be in interest alone.a The Post continues...

Rep. Paul Ryan's tax and spending "roadmap" is a fascinating critter: conservatives all praise it to the skies but none of them want to actually commit to supporting it. The reason for their hesitation is obvious: Ryan's plan would cut spending dramati...

Last night I wondered what bloggers really thought about the off-the-record briefing they attended on Monday with several anonymous Treasury officials. Here's a smattering of response. Megan McArdle: "Tim Geithner is growing into his role; this was a m...

Terry McDermott takes a look at Fox News and notes the obvious: they don't tend to have a lot of Democratic guests: This appears to be politically motivated, but that could be just an artifact -- the content seems political but the primary aim is much...

After the Citizens United decision opened the floodgates for corporate spending in political campaigns, supporters of the decision offered up several pushbacks against the doomsayers. One of them was simple: most big corporations don't really want thei...

MSNBC Host David Shuster on Tuesday continued to attack the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) for the organization's reference to Charlie Rangel as a "Harlem Democrat." He reiterated, "I pointed out the NRCC did not call him a corrupt ...

Concluding a report on proposed soda taxes across the country on Monday's CBS Evening News, correspondent Michelle Miller gleefully proclaimed how such a tax would help fight obesity and fill local government coffers: "New York's mayor estimates a tax ...

NBC's Ann Curry invited former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura to promote his new book of conspiracy theories, on Tuesday's Today show, and pressed the former professional wrestler to throw out the loony charge that the Bush administration had forekno...

Late night talk show host and author Chelsea Handler was invited on Tuesday's Today show to plug her new book Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang and couldn't leave the show without taking a dig at earlier guest Karl Rove, as well as Sarah Palin who she called "...

WashingtonPost.com One reader complained to Post ombudsman Andrew Alexander about the paper "promoting a faggot lifestyle," while another contended that "real men marry women." Ann Witty canceled the Post subscription she's held since the 1960s,...

Newport News Daily Press | Chicago Tribune The Daily Press will pink-slip most of its copy editors and designers as their functions move to the Chicago Tribune . "I think this eventually could add $1 million to the bottom line," says publisher Digby So...

NYTimes.com Media Decoder Jon Meacham is negotiating to become co-host of a Friday night public affair series called "Need to Know," which is replacing "Bill Moyers Journal" and "Now." Meacham will keep his Newsweek job. || FAIR.org : That would send t...

Google Public Policy Blog "There are huge cost savings associated with online news," notes Google chief economist Hal Varian (left). "Roughly 50% of the cost of producing a physical newspaper is in printing and distribution, with only about 15% ...

Here's a video round-up of Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) from The Rachel Maddow Show explaining Stupak's Stupak Amendment.

The consensus is that President Obama is losing the battle for the hearts and minds of the American people. Regardless of what happens with health care reform, Obama has failed to create a rally cry for America. His campaign message of hope and change...

Once again Obama uses his Weekly Address to talk about health care reform. Here's the video, but there is no transcript available yet.

The Washington Independent has a story explaining the politics behind Obama's wavering over the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The problem for Obama is that no amount of political maneuvering is going to get a substantial number of Republicans, if an...

Edmonton, Canada, water consumption during gold medal hockey match. Or: The nation that roots together, flushes together.

Ben Smith at Politico has a terrific scoop: He's obtained a secret RNC fundraising power point presentation (.pdf). The presentation is revealing. In fact, it reads like a liberal caricature of the Republican party. Take a gander at page 29 and you'...

The obstructionist Republican senate minority is blocking an extension of unemployment benefits, through the filibuster of one Jim Bunning of Kentucky, whose state is mired in 10.7 percent unemployment. When Jeff Merkel of Oregon beseeched his colleagu...

On newsstands today in our new issue: Matt Taibbi on how Goldman Sachs and other big banks aren't just pocketing the trillions we gave them to rescue the economy -- they're re-creating the conditions for another crash. * Wall Street's Bailout Hustle Pr...

Scientists have found evidence of a catastrophic event they believe was responsible for halting the birth of stars in a galaxy in the early universe. The researchers observed the massive galaxy as it would have appeared just three billion years after t...

With the evolutionary tree of life nearly half done for birds and mammals, other vertebrates lag behind

Large study links light to moderate drinking with less weight gain in middle-aged women

Like a hard-driving athlete whose joints need help, the giant "Mars antenna" at NASA's Deep Space Network site in Goldstone, Calif. has begun major, delicate surgery. The operation on the historic 70-meter-wide (230-foot) antenna, which has received da...

"Wear clothes that can get dusty... MREs for you to eat, water and Gatorade, that's it... Cameraman will be 'embedded' with the unit...You're going to get dressed up as an Iraqi woman and go through it first... " These are some of my notes from my fi...

I asked for positive uses for Twitter, and I have received. Here are some reader responses: I am so tired of journalists trying to analyze Twitter without really experiencing it first. It is NOT just a place for promoting blog posts - you need to im...

Yesterday, I posted some examples from readers of how they utilize Twitter. We've also looked at how the military is utilizing Twitter and other Web 2.0 technology. But, as we learned in our interview with P.W. Singer , our technology can easily be tur...

The Consortium of School Networking (CoSN) recently released a survey of school district administrators and their policies, practices and perspectives of Web 2.0 in K-12 education. The study reached a representative, random sample of nearly 1,200 distr...

Watching the conservative echo chamber in action is a frightening experience that most people don't have to stomach on a daily basis. The latest misinformation parroted by the rightwing machinery is that President Obama is buying v...

This is the complete rush transcript of a speech Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Oregon) gave on the House floor this morning at approximately 11:30 a.m. eastern time. The House was debating the health insurance anti-trust exemption created i...

At the Blair House Health Care Summit on Thursday, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said that the Republican tort reform proposal is not only horse hockey, but if enacted, people will die. When Republicans are asked what's the most important...

At the Blair House Health Care Summit on Thursday, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said that the Republican tort reform proposal is not only horse hockey, but if enacted, people will die. When Republicans are asked what's the most important...

Samsung wants to rock and roll with their own eBook reader as well which they have dubbed the E6 eReader (how convenient). It will still take some time to see just whether this market is big enough to support so many players, as eBook readers don't s...

Own an imposing office desk, but want to have that air of mysticsm around you? Why, there is the Antigravity Platform which will help break the ice in any social setting as curious minds ask you about the mechanics behind such an interesting device. Of...

You know what I think is really hysterical? We have these flight simulators to help out would-be pilots, but when it comes to teenage drivers, we just put them behind the wheel with a driver's permit. Why can we not put them in a simulator? After a...

Netgear has rolled out a bunch of new networking accessories which will target the home theater market in the form of the High-Performance Wireless-N HD Home Theater Kit (WNHDB3004) as well as the Universal WiFi Internet Adapter for Home Theater Devi...

Amid nearly 30 submissions from 20 states and four other countries, the Amateur Observers' Society of New York wins Astronomy's contest to celebrate astronomy outreach programs.

This observation could help answer questions about why there is more matter than anti-matter in the universe.

The new images also include the best 3-D image ever obtained of a "tiger stripe," a fissure that sprays icy particles, water vapor, and organic compounds.

Scientists ask public for help in understanding the Sun.

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With over 100 advertisers (and counting) abandoning Glenn Beck's show, it's obvious that what's left is the dregs of the world, like these guys . But the gold dealers dominating the ranks of his advertisers have new competition : Yup. All those Beck...

Another day, another parasitic rip-off of someone else's journalistic heavy-lifting. Must be another case of the traditional media complaining about riffraff bloggers living off its professional investigative work, right? Oh, wait. Here's Roll Call ,...

Poor Eric Massa -- it only took a day to go from being Rush Limbaugh's hero : This story speaks for itself ... Massa says the White House and Emanuel went after him because of the health care vote ... Now, Massa warns us what we all know, but I think...

Kate Grossman '97, the deputy editorial page editor at the Chicago Sun-Times, is a 2010 winner of the Studs Terkel Media Award for excellence in covering and reflecting Chicago's diverse communities.

"Curfewed Night," a memoir by Basharat Peer, M.A. '07, continues to garner attention from the literary and journalistic worlds.

Last evening, "Music by Prudence," a documentary about a disabled Zimbabwean singer, won an Academy Award for best documentary short. The film was produced by Elinor Burkett '88.

Five Columbia Journalism School students were among this year's winners of Overseas Press Club Foundation Scholarships. They are Jennifer Brookland, Leah Finnegan, Artis Henderson, Owen Kibenge, and Jeff Roberts.

Fourteen-year-olds frequently accuse their parents of moral dereliction; parents do not frequently respond by selling their house and donating half the proceeds to villagers in Ghana. But such was the response of Kevin and Joan Salwen, of Atlanta, to t...

The greatest singers, from Callas to Sinatra, make words and music indivisible; even as the voice envelops you, the lyric is etched into your mind. The Canadian baritone Gerald Finley has a similar gift. Partly it's a matter of diction: Finley makes su...

paragraph class="noindent">Tom Colicchio closed his Craftsteak flagship in New York earlier this fall and vowed to make its revamp personal: he'd be there, behind the stove, doing what he loves to do. The other night, a waiter confirmed that Colicchio ...

The fact that "Green Zone" begins with a bombing raid should come as no surprise, given that the director is Paul Greengrass. He made two of the "Bourne" films and "United 93," and his attitude to the average viewer remains that of a salad . . .

NASA has exercised a $60 million, one-year extension option for a contract with Science Applications International Corporation of Houston to provide support to safety and mission assurance activities at the agency's Johnson Space Center.

NASA today unveiled an interactive computer simulation that allows virtual explorers of all ages to dock the space shuttle at the International Space Station, experience a virtual trip to Mars or a lunar impact, and explore images of star formations ta...

NASA today announced its founding partnership of Launch, an initiative to identify, showcase and support innovative approaches to sustainability challenges through a series of forums.

NASA will highlight the educational activities planned on the next space shuttle mission during a news briefing at 12 p.m. CDT, Tuesday, March 9.

Security software firm unveils prototype system designed to help carriers weed out malware and other security vulnerabilities on mobile devices.

Serdar Yegulalp takes a closer look at the top 10 challenges and issues facing enterprises as they begin to embrace the cloud and Software-as-a-Service model.

It's 2010 and some people still think the Linux desktop is a non-starter. Please. Buy a clue; you're all Linux desktop users now...

VMware Express is an 18-wheeler with a functioning datacenter inside that's embarking on a 15-city tour of the U.S. and Canada to show off the company's virtualization technologies.

Mon dieu , the French, they are so insatiable. Nicolas Sarkozy and his young, frequently nude ex-model wife Carla Bruni have both been accused by French magazine Suchablog.com (does that work in French...

Meet Stumptown Coffee, bastion of the " third wave " of American caffeine, wherein we chuck our totally corporate Starbucks cups and switch to independent cafes and underground dripperies that all buy ...

Everyone is pissed off about people making out in public today. Security officials, Washington Post readers, and Tiger Woods fans are all up in arms. We're close to a government-mandated all-out PDA ba...

[ Michelle Obama ambled down her block to the Smithsonian today to donate her inaugural gown by Jason Wu to the museum's collection where it will not be upstage by Aretha Franklin 's hat. Image via Get...

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by Stephanie Nebehay United Nations human rights investigators called on the Obama administration on Tuesday to prosecute the accused September 11 masterminds in a civilian court, declaring that U.S. military tribunals would not be fair. The White Hous...

by Haider Rizvi UNITED NATIONS - "What do I get from them? Nothing but bullsh*t," says Nupur Acharya, reflecting about how she is treated by her husband and two grown sons on daily basis. The 50-year-old Indian national who is currently settled in New ...

by Jane Hamsher Today, FDL launches its Students Not Banks campaign, with a petition calling on Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and members of Congress to pass student loan reform quickly through reconciliation. One of President Obamaas most ambitious plans f...

CALGARY a A weekend admission by former Alaskan governor and U.S. vice-presidential hopeful Sarah Palin over her familyas use of the Canadian health care system while growing up in Alaska has critics of the outspoken hockey mom crying foul online. read...

Sony and Samsung announced intentions to enter the 3D TV market.

A global scientific team said that there is only one plausible explanation for dinosaur extinction: asteroids.

For scores of lawmakers, it will be a high risk to approve the Senate healthcare reform bill and subsequent 'fixes.'

In the next stage in the Afghanistan war, coalition forces are expected to build up gradually on the outskirts of the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, perhaps for months. That strategy departs from the one executed in the Marjah offensive, in which troo...

I appear on CNN on Monday, March 8th. It seems that President Obama has changed his mind regarding where Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be charged. He originally stated that he would be charged in a civilian courtroom. Now, after pressure from Republi...

I appear on Ed Schultz Radio Show on Friday, March 5th at 12:30 p.m. e.t. It appears that President Obama may have decided to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a military tribunal rather than in a civilian courtroom. This is a huge mistake. This should...

I appear on MSNBC's Ed Schultz Show on Friday, March 5th at 6 p.m. e.t. It appears that President Obama may have decided to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a military tribunal rather than in a civilian courtroom. This is a huge mistake. This should b...

Both Jack Rice and Aasif Mandvi of the Daily Show appeared as guest speakers at the ACLU's Reckoning with Torture event in Washington DC on March 3, 2010.

WASHINGTON -- NASA today announced its founding partnership of Launch, an initiative to identify, showcase and support innovative approaches to sustainability challenges through a series of forums. The first forum, "Launch: Water," will take place at N...

An infographic breaking into Digg's Top 10 this weekend posed the question: "Are you obsessed with your cell phone?" The answer to that is pretty obvious, considering that the infographic also states that 32 percent of men and 23 percent of women can't...

It's actually called a Hoverpod, but whatever, it's a Hovercraft. How well does it work considering it costs less than $50? Who knows, but here's what the manufacturer has to say about it. Just like the real thing, the Hoverpod slides around the place ...

If you're looking for a great e-mail function for PHP, check out Douglas Lovell's post on Linux Journal. It's one of the best solutions to a deceptively difficult problem that every PHP developer has to solve sooner or later. While no e-mail validation...

How the war on drugs gave birth to a permanent American undercaste.

Watch a live webcast tonight of "Obama: Change We Can Believe In?" featuring Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel, Ben Smith of Politico.com, Gretchen Morgenson of The New York Times and Benjamin Barber of Demos.

Nation writer Johann Hari discusses his recent article in which conservation groups have sided with big-time polluters instead of real science.

By Karen Grabowski SPJ Communications Department WE'RE MOVING. Well, SPJ Headquarters is not moving, but SPJ Leads is moving to a new time! Beginning next week, we will send you the newsletter on Wednesday afternoons. If you would like to share anythi...

By Karen Grabowski SPJ Communications Department HARPER MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP. This year, SPJ will award two convention scholarships in memory of Terry Harper , SPJ's executive director from 2002-2009. Terry died June 2, 2009 after a two-year battle wi...

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The blizzard of '10 in Washington might refer to February's record snowfallaor it might be a reference to the number of stories about White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. They've been everywhere you look lately. This Sunday, he'll be on the cover...

There have been lots of absurdities in the debateasuch as it isaabout health care reform. There's the hypocrisy of people dependent on government-run health care complaining about government-run health care. And now comes the Republican canard that t...

Imagine you've just sat down to dinner with your spouse. Let's say it's a weeknight and there's nothing particularly special about this mealayou're at your own dining room table, neither one of you has slaved in the kitchen all day, and you don't hav...

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Are the Obama Administrationas actions putting Americans at increased risk of a terrorist attack? Keep America Safe and its board members argue that it is.

What is abundantly clear, from reading his Internet commentaries, is that Pentagon shooter John Patrick Bedell was a psychotic pothead.

If the Democrats had the votes to pass it, it would be passed immediately. But they donat, and instead will try to make whatever deals it takes.

Right-leaning legal scholars have bristled at a video, produced by a group that Liz Cheney runs, that questions the loyalty of lawyers who worked for terror detainees.

UConn won its 72nd consecutive game, an N.C.A.A. womenas record, and another Big East title on Tuesday.

By at least one amusing new metric, Michelangelo has been bumped from his perch atop the Italian art charts by Caravaggio, a hyperrealist whose art is instantly accessible.

The Vatican said Tuesday that local churches had aacted swiftly and decisivelya to address the growing child sex abuse scandal in Europe.

Dozens of former federal officials are playing leading roles in helping carmakers handle federal investigations of auto defects, including those for Toyota's runaway-acceleration problems.

Millions of Americans have been forced to rely on unemployment payments for extended periods as the nation struggles through its longest period of high joblessness in a generation, and critics are taking aim, saying that the Depression-era program cre...

On a windy morning in downtown Washington, a hundred Georgetown Law students gathered in a hall for David Cole's lecture on democracy and coercion. The desks were cluttered with books, Thermoses and half-eaten muffins.

QALAT, AFGHANISTAN -- To work in Zabul province these days is to feel forsaken.

WASHINGTON -- Former Rep. Eric Massa, who resigned from Congress amid sexual harassment allegations, acknowledged Tuesday groping a staffer but denied it was sexual. "It doesn't make any difference what my intentions were, it's how it's perceived by ...

NEW YORK -- A TV producer has pleaded guilty to trying to shake down David Letterman over the comic's sexual affairs. Robert "Joe" Halderman entered his guilty plea to attempted grand larceny Tuesday in a Manhattan court. He was charged last fall wit...

EL CAJON, California (AP) -- Federal officials are sending two investigators to California to determine what caused a Toyota Prius to race out of control on a San Diego-area freeway. A spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Transportation said Tuesda...

A moderate Democrat insisted Tuesday she remained opposed to pushing a health care bill through the Senate with a simple majority vote, despite saying she wanted to see what was in the legislation. Sen. Blanche Lincoln, Arkansas Democrat, who is faci...