Americans just witnessed the biggest housing boom in their history. The impact of the bust that has followed looks to be wide and long-lasting. First of a three-part series.
President Vladimir V. Putin?s endorsement of one of his closest confidantes, Dmitri A. Medvedev, makes him the favorite to become Russia?s next president.
Former Vice President Al Gore received the Nobel Peace Prize he shares with the U.N. climate panel this morning in Oslo. In accepting the prize, he warned of the "mutually assured destruction" climate change would cause.
AP - The Supreme Court on Monday said judges may impose shorter prison terms for crack cocaine crimes, enhancing judicial discretion to reduce the disparity between sentences for crack and cocaine powder.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that federal judges have the discretion to give "reasonably" shorter prison terms for crack-cocaine crimes to reduce the disparity with crimes involving cocaine powder. The ruling is a victory for lawyers who argued that crack-cocaine offenders were unfairly targeted under sentencing guidelines.
Police are searching a home near Englewood, Colorado, for clues in the deadly weekend attacks at a Christian missionary center in the Denver suburb of Arvada and a Colorado Springs megachurch. Police say there is reason to believe the shootings are linked.