A dispute over whether diplomacy can rein in Iran?s nuclear program pits Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice against hawks in Vice President Dick Cheney?s office.
While violence was largely over, people worried about how a round of deadly infighting postponed hope for an independent and unified Palestinian state.
YouTube has ruined many a life, but the reputation of a whole state? Bringing new meaning to the motto "We dare to defend our rights," two Alabama state senators came to blows on the Senate floor last week.
Freelance journalist Gordy Slack has written the first book-length treatment of the trial that caught the nation's attention during the summer of 2005, The Battle Over the Meaning of Everything: Evolution, Intelligent Design, and a School Board in Dover, Pa.
This weekend features another live auction at Alexander Autographs, where lots of JFK and Jackie O items will be up for sale. A rare signed wedding picture, with an estimated price of $12,000, is just a little bit of the stuff our pals at Alexander have to offer. They traffic in all sorts of historical documents, autographs, and Americana. This auction, for example, includes bronze-clad plaster castings of Abraham Lincoln's hands, John Lennon's signature on a book about spies, and a note written by Jurgen Stroop, the Nazi SS leader who ordered the torching of the Warsaw ghetto.
AP - Cheering Hamas supporters wearing green headbands and waving flags surged through Gaza's streets Friday as Islamic militants in black masks took over one of President Mahmoud Abbas' offices and rifled through his bedroom.
AP - A senior Justice Department official who helped carry out the dismissals of federal prosecutors said Friday he is resigning. Mike Elston, chief of staff to Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, is the fifth Justice official to leave after being linked to the dismissals of the prosecutors.
AP - U.S. troops would no longer be asked to reveal previous mental health treatment when applying for security clearances under a proposal being considered by the Pentagon.
Masked gunmen have been photographed posing at the desk of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as Hamas consolidated power in Gaza after defeating the rival Fatah faction. Hamas overtook the presidential compound in Gaza City on Friday, throwing large framed photos of late president Yasser Arafat and Abbas to the ground.