Expectations are high that Obama will nominate a woman. Though female jurisprudence is not much different from that of male judges, women tend to be more pro-women's rights and to tilt more toward plaintiffs in sex-discrimination cases.
North Korea said it had successfully conducted its second nuclear test, raising the stakes in the effort to get the nation to give up its nuclear weapons program.
As job losses rise, the nation’s real estate disaster is shifting from subprime loans to prime loans issued to those with decent financial histories.
Whoever replaces Justice David H. Souter will be a crucial vote on questions of executive authority, which has become the subject of a profound post-9/11 debate.
AP - North Korea defiantly declared Monday that it carried out a powerful underground nuclear test — a major provocation less than two months after launching a rocket widely believed to be a test of its long-range missile technology.
AP - Sikhs wielding knives and a handgun attacked two preachers at a rival temple in Vienna in a brawl that left one of the victims dead Monday and at least 15 others wounded, police said. A related clash later broke out in northern India.
AP - The Senate's No. 2 Republican on Sunday refused to rule out a filibuster if President Barack Obama seeks a Supreme Court justice who decides cases based on "emotions or feelings or preconceived ideas."
North Korea has conducted its second nuclear bomb test, the country's state news agency announced Monday. The announcement came little more than an hour after the U.S. Geological Survey reported a magnitude 4.7 seismic disturbance at the site of North Korea's first nuclear test.
The U.S. State Department wants to extend the same benefits to partners of gay and lesbian American diplomats as their heterosexual counterparts enjoy, according to a notice that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is preparing to send out to employees.
The Jalozai camp near Peshawar houses more than 90,000 people fleeing the violence raging between the Pakistani army and Taliban fighters. The United Nations estimates that it's the biggest movement of people in Pakistan since the country was formed in 1947. The refugees are forced to eat whatever they can to survive.
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