The star scholar of a program that sends girls to school in Malawi spent the summer at Phillips Exeter Academy. But as she returns home, challenges loom.
In a grim report, the agency attributed the second-quarter loss for the banking industry to a surge in bad loans made to home builders and commercial real estate developers.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said there has yet been no proof that journalists, academics and reformists had collaborated with the West to overthrow the government.
Overtired after the hurricane, doctors and nurses in New Orleans injected some patients with drugs. Were they trying to comfort those patients — or hasten their deaths?
AP - With the death of Edward M. Kennedy, seven seats in the Senate have been opened since the last election or soon will be, the most in any one year in six decades.
AP - A woman who was snatched from a bus stop as an 11-year-old child in 1991 turned up at a California police station after 18 mysterious years, and a convicted sex offender and his wife were arrested in the kidnapping.
A woman who walked into a California police station claiming to be a 1991 kidnapping victim is Jaycee Dugard, family and officials say. Dugard -- shown in an age-progression image above -- was last seen walking to a bus stop in South Lake Tahoe, California. Her stepfather, Carl Probyn, tells CNN that an FBI agent had called his wife, Terry, to tell her that her daughter had been found.
High school athletic director Brian Bordainick had 30 seconds to make his pitch -- or lose his dream of building a new stadium for a Katrina-battered school. Four years after the hurricane, Bordainick and football coach Shyrone Carey want to cultivate student pride with their New Orleans "Field of Dreams."