Top Vatican officials, including the future Pope Benedict XVI, did not defrock an American priest who molested as many as 200 deaf boys, even after warnings from several bishops, church files show.
So-called flash mobs in Philadelphia have become part bullying, part running of the bulls as teenagers sprint through the streets, sometimes brawling and vandalizing.
AP - Senate Republicans learned early Thursday that they will be able to kill language in a measure altering President Barack Obama's newly enacted health care overhaul, meaning the bill will have to return to the House for final congressional approval.
AP - Democratic Congress members are getting lessons from the FBI on how to handle threats such as several directed at their colleagues, including bricks hurled through windows and menacing obscenity-laced phone messages left for those who supported sweeping federal health care legislation.
Actor Robert Culp, who rose to fame as a secret agent on the groundbreaking 1960s TV series "I Spy," died after falling on a sidewalk near a Los Angeles park.
The national report card for reading by fourth-graders was flat for 2009 compared with 2007, leaving Education Secretary Arne Duncan unsatisfied with the trend.