National Transportation Safety Board investigators spent Sunday examining controls in the cockpit of a Southwest Airlines jet that slid off a runway and into a street next to Midway Airport on Thursday, killing a 6-year-old boy...

President Bush offered encouragement to war-weary Iraqis on Monday but acknowledged they have paid a heavy price — 30,000 dead — as a result of the U.S.-led invasion and its bloody aftermath...

The United States Supreme Court agreed today to review the constitutionality of the Texas redistricting plan that was engineered by Representative Tom DeLay, the House majority leader until recently, and helped Republicans add to their majority from...

NPR.org, December 9, 2005 · Follow a timeline of Stanley Tookie Williams' life from his birth to the Dec. 13 date set for his execution by lethal injection: Dec...

The absolute ban on torture, a cornerstone of the international human rights edifice, is under attack...

A Pennsylvania State Trooper was shot and killed early this morning during a routine traffic stop...

An increasing majority of Iraqi voters oppose the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq even as they express optimism over their future living conditions, a new poll shows. Two-thirds of those surveyed rejected the presence of U.S...

amily and friends who gathered yesterday for the funeral of Sarah and Philip Gehring said the service was simple but elegant, a balance of mourning the children, who were murdered by their father in 2003, and recognizing what peace can come from...

The California Supreme Court has rejected a late appeal to reopen the case of condemned Crips gang leader Stanley Tookie Williams, leaving his fate in the hands of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday. Williams, 51, is slated be executed at 12:01 a...

Fire broke out early Monday at a 122-bed nursing home in far northern Michigan, killing two people and sending at least 70 others to hospitals, authorities said...

With President Bush's poll numbers slumping, Democrats hoped to benefit from Republican malaise and pick up some seats -- and some power. BY LESLEY CLARK lclark@herald...

WASHINGTON A writer for Time magazine has become the latest reporter to be swept up in the investigation of President George W. Bush's top political adviser, Karl Rove, and into the leaked identity of a CIA operative, the magazine disclosed...

Monday is the last day of appeals for Stanley (Tookie) Williams, one of California's most notorious ex-gang members. He is scheduled to be executed Tuesday...

WASHINGTON - Secret prisons in Eastern Europe. Illegal detentions. Suspects snatched off the streets and shipped without extradition to other countries for harsh interrogation. Government directives cloaked in secrecy...

Radio communications recorded just before last week's fatal accident at Midway Airport reveal that some pilots and air-traffic controllers were concerned about the worsening snowstorm and discussed whether they could change the runway configuration...