Since he left Congress, Robert G. Torricelli has spent at least $65,000 of his campaign money on politicians or organizations that had influence over his business interests.
For me, having newborns in the neonatal intensive care unit was like living in purgatory. After months of anticipation?filled with happy tasks like decorating the nursery?suddenly I wasn't sure when my twins might leave the hospital or whether they'd be disabled when they came home.
AP - The Iraqi government is strained by rampant violence, deep sectarian differences among its political parties and stymied leadership, the nation's top spy analysts concluded in a sobering assessment released Thursday.
AP - President Bush should start bringing home some troops by Christmas to show the Baghdad government that the U.S. commitment in Iraq is not open-ended, a prominent Republican senator said Thursday.
AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton promised Thursday that as president she would improve health care quality by raising standards for providers, educating patients and requiring insurers to reward innovation.
Few stories have touched CNN.com users like that of 5-year-old Youssif, an Iraqi boy set on fire by masked men. A U.S. burns center has offered to pay for all his medical expenses. When told of the news, the boy ran through his house in joy: "Daddy, am I really going to get on a plane?!"
The owners of 53 pit bulls seized in April from the Virginia property owned by Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick have until the end of the day to claim the animals, a court official said.
Dogs bred for the fighting pit have only one thing in their future: death. Fighting dogs may die in the ring or at their hands of their owners. If they are confiscated in a bust, they are almost always euthanized, experts say.