Laborers from across the country have returned to their native Sichuan Province, where many elderly Chinese have refused to leave devastated - and still at risk - villages.
Immigrants arrested in an Iowa raid faced tough criminal charges instead of rapid deportation, signaling a sharp escalation in a Bush administration crackdown.
AP - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton quickly apologized Friday after citing the June 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in defending her decision to keep running for the Democratic presidential nomination despite increasingly long odds.
AP - China's earthquake death toll has passed 60,000 and could rise to 80,000 or more, Premier Wen Jiabao said Saturday as he and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited the disaster area.
AP - Consider the game of chicken that plays out every day across Pennsylvania State Highway 441. In Marietta, where the road hugs the Susquehanna River, a Rutter's Farm Store gas station stands on one side, a Sheetz gas station on the other.
Child welfare officials have agreed to return 12 children taken from a Texas polygamist sect's ranch to their parents while the courts weigh hundreds of other cases, a family spokeswoman said Friday.
Ricky Nelson and his wife, Kristen, were high school sweethearts. She wrote him a letter every day while he was in Iraq. On the day she was told of his death, she got five letters from him, said his brother David, one of the iReporters sharing memories of loved ones lost in battle.
Sen. Hillary Clinton said today that she regretted comments that evoked the June 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy as part of her explanation for staying in the presidential race. Sen. Barack Obama's campaign called her remark "unfortunate."