The city of Cambridge, Mass., has dropped its charges against a Harvard professor who alleges he was arrested for breaking into his own house only because he is black.
Over four years after a peace agreement ended Sudan's bloody civil war a ruling in the Hague may resolve control of a rich oil field, but may also spark more conflict.
President Obama sought to convince an increasingly skeptical American public that proposed changes to the health care system would benefit them and strengthen the economy.
As President Obama addressed the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr., Americans got a rare glimpse at what it means to have a black president in the Oval Office.
President Obama showed fluency in the details of health policy at his news conference on Wednesday night, but experts said some of his points were debatable.
AP - Six months in office, President Barack Obama sought Wednesday night to rally support for sweeping health care legislation he's struggling to push through Congress, expressing support for a surtax on families making more than $1 million a year to help pay for it.
AP - Democrats command the votes needed to pass a sweeping health care bill through the House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday, an unexpected statement that quickly drew a biting response from conservative members of the party's rank-and-file demanding changes in President Barack Obama's trademark legislation.
AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged Asian nations Thursday to vigorously enforce the latest U.N. sanctions against North Korea. She said Washington would pursue "every avenue" to denuclearize the Korean peninsula.
Detectives searched the Houston, Texas, medical office of Dr. Conrad Murray on Wednesday for "evidence of the offense of manslaughter," Murray's lawyer said. The search warrant "services part of the ongoing investigation into the death of Michael Jackson," a Los Angeles Police spokesman said.
President Obama said that police in Cambridge, Massachusetts, "acted stupidly" in arresting a prominent black Harvard professor last week after a confrontation at the man's home.
President Obama said Wednesday health care reform is "central" to successfully rebuilding the U.S. economy after the current economic crisis. "Even as we rescue this economy from a full-blown crisis, we must rebuild it stronger than before -- and health insurance reform is central to that effort," Obama told a nationally televised news conference.
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