As the military marches into a post 'don't ask, don't tell' future, some policies will be easier to devise than others. Troops' living conditions will be relatively simple. Rights for gay partners won't.
It's no coincidence that 'red' states, with looser building codes and freer economies, are gaining people and political clout, say analysts. After 2010 Census, 'blue' states look to be the losers.
The secrecy around Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s selection of Cathleen P. Black to run the city’s schools highlighted his faith in business leaders and dislike of public debate.
Starting Thursday, Wal-Mart plans to offer free shipping on its Web site, a move that may create an expectation among consumers and a threat to smaller retailers.
AP - President Barack Obama tried to sway reluctant Republican senators on Monday to back a new arms control treaty with Russia as GOP aversion to giving a politically damaged president another victory intruded on his national security agenda.
AP - The Christmas travel season turned angry and chaotic Monday as British officials struggled to clear snow and ice that paralyzed rail and air links and spawned cancellations and delays stranding thousands around the world.
AP - In the biggest anti-terrorist sweep in Britain in nearly two years, police have arrested a dozen men accused of plotting a large-scale terror attack on targets inside the United Kingdom.
The friend of an American tourist who was stabbed to death in Israel over the weekend said it was clear that their attackers -- allegedly two Arab men -- undoubtedly meant to murder the pair as they were hiking. While Wilson said she was able to survive by playing dead, her friend, American Kristine Luken, 44, did not. Luken's body was found Sunday with multiple stab wounds. Her hands were tied behind her back.
British police arrested 12 men early Monday morning who were allegedly in the final stages of a major bomb plot. The plot was allegedly directed at targets inside the U.K. The men were arrested after weeks of surveillance by law enforcement and MI5 in raids in London, Cardiff, Birmingham and Stoke-on-Trent. The men are between 17 and 28 years old and are mostly British citizens from Bangladeshi backgrounds.
Amanda Knox and her family sobbed when an Italian appeals court judge ordered an independent review of crucial DNA evidence that was pivotal in Knox's 2009 murder conviction. On Dec. 18, the court ordered new DNA tests on the only physical evidence linking Knox and her ex-boyfried, Rafaelle Sollecito, to the murder of Knox's room mate.
Israeli authorities are investigating whether the attack that left an American woman dead and her friend injured was "nationalistic," a police spokesman said Monday.
The mother of Matrice Richardson, a 24-year-old California woman whose decomposed remains were found in Malibu Canyon last August, said Monday she believes her daughter was murdered and asked that the coroner exhume the remains and the FBI crime lab examine her clothing.
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