Halfway through his Northwest Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Honolulu, passenger Andy Friendly noticed something was not right...

The arguments over the fate of the convicted murderer Stanley "Tookie" Williams challenge us to decide whether we are all capable of change. Whether Williams should die for murder now rests with California's Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger...

Known primarily as a group critical of the Catholic Church's handling of the clergy sexual abuse crisis, the Voice of the Faithful took on a new issue yesterday, staging rallies in Massachusetts and across the nation protesting the Vatican's...

WASHINGTON - Toying with tradition, some powerful Democrats recommended Saturday that New Hampshire lose its treasured status as part of a presidential one-two punch with Iowa and push its historic primary behind one or two states with more diverse...

_ A top labor leader plans to propose a $1.5 million "solidarity fund" to help transit workers if they strike...

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's government has sent two early, domestically unpopular Christmas presents to US President George Bush - a one-year extension of Japanese troop deployment in Iraq and a resumption of American beef imports...

WASHINGTON: The US military has delayed the deployment of a combat brigade to Iraq and put another on standby in what could suggest the start of a long-awaited drawdown of US forces there, a US defence official said on Thursday...

SPRINGFIELD, Massachusetts: In a year filled with political wrangling, natural disasters and pop culture curiosities, Americans turned to Merriam-Webster to help define it all. Filibuster. Refugee. Tsunami...

As horrific as it was to hear the sound of a man's violent death, another nightmare quickly unfolded for the passengers of American Airlines Flight 924...

The question of whether Jeanine Pirro will remain a candidate for U.S. Senate isn't likely to be answered at today's GOP gathering in Albany and could linger unresolved through the end of the year, party leaders said yesterday...

While other kids sat in their classrooms this fall, Roger's 13-year-old granddaughter was roaming around the West Coast with her mother, staying up late and following their favorite band on tour...

People who sought refuge outside the 10 states that absorbed most of the evacuees from Hurricanes Rita and Katrina can remain in hotels at the government's expense while their applications for rental assistance are processed, officials announced...

Union President Roger Toussaint says he's prepared to lead the city's 33,000 transit workers out on strike Friday, and they've given him the go-ahead to shut New York down. This is self-destructiveness writ large...

A community filed into church yesterday to bid a proper farewell to Philip and Sarah Gehring, whose bodies were missing for 2½ years before turning up this month in a shallow roadside grave in Ohio...

Eugene McCarthy, left, lost the party's presidential nomination to fellow Minnesota senator Hubert Humphrey, by his side, in 1968. Photograph by : St...