Interviews show that a seemingly relentless string of professional and personal troubles led to Sarah Palin’s surprise resignation as governor of Alaska.
AP - Sonia Sotomayor enters confirmation hearings for her historic nomination to the Supreme Court with reason to be confident about the outcome — Democrats have the votes in the Senate to make her the court's first Hispanic and third woman justice.
AP - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso told ruling party leaders Monday he will dissolve parliament and hold general elections next month, following a crushing defeat for his party in Tokyo municipal polls considered a barometer of voter sentiment.
AP - Two men being held on open murder charges in a wealthy Florida couple's slayings went to their house intending to rob it, according to arrest warrants.
Three arrests have been made in the killings of a Gulf Coast couple known for adopting special-needs children, a sheriff's spokesman said Sunday. Two suspects face murder charges in an investigation that Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan says has become "a window into something bigger," with multiple motives and multiple suspects.
President Obama has ordered national security officials to look into allegations that the Bush administration resisted efforts to investigate a CIA-backed Afghan warlord over the killings of hundreds of Taliban prisoners in 2001.
A suburban Philadelphia swim club has invited children from a largely minority day-care center to come back after a June reversal that fueled allegations of racism against the club, a spokeswoman said Sunday.