REYNOSA, Mexico — The big philosophical question in this gritty border town does not concern trees falling in the forest but bodies falling on the concrete: Does a shootout actually happen if...

CARACAS, Venezuela — The shadowy underworld of Basque exiles in this city is coming under sharp scrutiny after recent arrests in Europe and an indictment this month from one of Spain’s...

Henry Kissinger , the former United States secretary of state, was hospitalized here because of stomach pains on Saturday. But his condition has quickly improved, said a spokesman for Yonsei...

Filed at 11:14 a.m. ET GENEVA (AP) -- A Swiss abbot says 60 people have reported being victims of abuse by Catholic priests in Switzerland. Abbot Martin Werlen of the Benedictine Abbey of...

Filed at 11:04 a.m. ET WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Polish media say vandals have sprayed anti-Semitic graffiti on a Holocaust memorial at a former Nazi concentration camp. Words including ''Jude Raus''...

Filed at 10:41 a.m. ET SAN'A, Yemen (AP) -- The U.S. al-Qaida suspect detained in Yemen had persuaded his guard to unshackle him so the two could pray together and then snatched his unattended gun...

Filed at 11:55 a.m. ET REYNOSA, Mexico (AP) -- This border city and others near the eastern end of the U.S. border escaped the worst of Mexico's...

Filed at 10:59 a.m. ET RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- The iconic statue of Christ with outstretched arms that overlooks Rio de Janeiro is getting a $4 million renovation. Heavy rains have eroded portions...

Filed at 11:37 a.m. ET BARTOW, Fla. (AP) -- Authorities say a 55-year-old woman died alone in a bedroom of her central Florida home after locking herself in the room for several weeks for a lengthy...

Filed at 10:09 a.m. ET DUBLIN (AP) -- It often starts as a voice in the wilderness, but can swell into an entire nation's demand for truth. From Ireland to Germany, Europe's many victims of child...

More Politics News WASHINGTON (AP) -- America is springing forward. Most Americans trade an hour's sleep this weekend for more evening sunshine to enjoy after work. Officially the change to...

Filed at 8:51 a.m. ET COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- Sri Lanka's main ethnic Tamil party on Friday dropped its demand for an independent state and said it is ready to accept regional self-rule,...

Pope Benedict XVI into the spreading scandals of pedophile priests in his German homeland, and contended he has long confronted abuse cases with courage. In separate interviews, both the Holy See's...

Filed at 8:22 a.m. ET CAIRO (AP) -- A 3,000-year-old wooden sarcophagus confiscated at Miami airport after being shipped from Barcelona has returned to Egypt. The brightly painted sarcophagus dates...

Filed at 8:02 a.m. ET CAIRO (AP) -- An Egyptian bishop says 23 Coptic Christians have been wounded when extremist Muslims attacked a church community center in a western province. The Rev. Bejemy...

Filed at 8:45 a.m. ET ATLANTA (AP) -- Stock market slides may hurt more than your savings. New research suggests they might prompt heart...

Barack Obama finally gave liberal supporters the kind of judicial nominee they had sought and conservatives feared. Goodwin Liu, 39, is an unabashed liberal legal scholar who, if confirmed, could...

Barack Obama and Democrats on Saturday of a ''bitter, destructive and endless'' drive to pass health overhaul legislation that Brown warned would be disastrous. ''An entire year has gone to waste,''...

Filed at 6:31 a.m. ET BERLIN (AP) -- German authorities say they have arrested a man suspected of taking part in the storming last weekend of a poker tournament in which armed robbers made off with...

Filed at 7:20 a.m. ET DOHA, Qatar (AP) -- The Atlantic bluefin tuna and other marine life in the world's overfished oceans are the focus of...

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was winning in the all-important capital, according to a partial tally of results released Saturday. If the trend continues, the vote tallies would be a substantial...

Palestinian women scuffled with Israeli troops on the outskirts of Jerusalem on Saturday amid rising religious and political tensions in the disputed city. The confrontation erupted at the Qalandiya...

Barack Obama says he wants projects helping specific states yanked from the health care bill Congress is writing. Democratic senators, being senators, beg to differ. The Senate-approved health...

There are two interesting things about Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell's executive directive this week banning discrimination in the state government's personnel actions on the basis of sexual...

More than 30 years ago, a young Jewish lawyer named David Goldberger defended the rights of American Nazis to march through the streets of Skokie, Ill., home to thousands of Holocaust survivors....

Filed at 5:56 a.m. ET BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) -- Serbian police have detained nine former paramilitary fighters suspected of killing civilians and looting homes during the Kosovo war, a war crimes...

Filed at 5:39 a.m. ET DUBLIN (AP) -- Three Muslims arrested over an alleged plot to assassinate Swedish artist Lars Vilks have been freed without charge, but three other men and an American woman...

Filed at 5:39 a.m. ET CAIRO (AP) -- An international human rights group on Saturday called on Iran to either charge or release an acclaimed Iranian filmmaker who backed the country's...

No Child Left Behind with a plan to prepare students for life after high school and to place better teachers at the blackboards. Obama said he would send Congress his proposed overhaul of the 2001...

Democratic Party ) expressing at least qualified support for Mr. McDonnell's action. It isn't everything one might hope for - an executive directive is less than an executive order and does not carry...

Filed at 4:22 a.m. ET ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) -- The death toll from a massive flood that devastated a village in southern Kazakhstan has soared to 35, the country's president said Saturday. A...

Filed at 4:14 a.m. ET KABUL (AP) -- A remote-controlled bomb killed six Afghan civilians Saturday as they traveled in a central province, an official said. Insurgents detonated the explosives...

Filed at 4:06 a.m. ET ATLANTA (AP) -- An attorney for Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has hired a private investigator to look into a sexual assault allegation made by a...

Mayor Gavin Newsom, the quintessential multitasker, has set himself a new challenge. He insists he can run for state lieutenant governor while meeting the demands of his day job in San Francisco,...

Civil disagreements, with Lynne Varner and Bruce Ramsey of the Seattle Times editorial board, is a feature of the Ed Cetera blog. Today's topic is the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling Pledge...

Filed at 2:47 a.m. ET KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh (AP) -- Dildar Begum has no country, no job, no food and is fast running out of hope. Her husband is imprisoned in a Bangladeshi jail while she lives in...

More Politics News WASHINGTON (AP) -- Under White House pressure to act swiftly, House and Senate Democratic leaders reached for agreement Friday on...

Ernie Els has made some minor adjustments to his stance in the past week that have yielded major results at the W.G.C.-CA Championship, vaulting him into the lead at the halfway point of the $8.5...

The 2010 Utah Legislature was bookended by shocking reminders that state lawmakers are not above scandal. It started just after Senate Majority Leader Sheldon Killpack was arrested in a DUI case,...

One of the signs of greatness is to know when there has been an error committed and to be humble enough to admit it; at times this even involves an apology. Excusing mistakes or, worse, ignoring them...

Almost two weeks after the earthquake that devastated Chile, the country is still reeling from aftershocks. I speak to my sister-in-law in Santiago, and she suddenly interrupts our conversation,...

I strongly feel that the Legislature should stand up for our state's rights by drafting bills with a message. It is tragic when the federal government usurps power and obliterates our sovereignty...

Filed at 2:01 a.m. ET ISLAMABAD (AP) -- A suicide attacker set off a bomb at a security checkpoint in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least 10 people and injuring 52, officials and a...

Filed at 1:10 a.m. ET BANGKOK (AP) -- Thousands of red-shirted, anti-government demonstrators converged on the Thai capital from the north and northeast Saturday, vowing to oust the government in a...

Filed at 12:35 a.m. ET SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea plans to head back to the bargaining table early next month for talks aimed at ending...

Filed at 1:40 a.m. ET DENVER (AP) -- A 31-year-old mother from Colorado was one of seven Muslims arrested this week in Ireland in an alleged plot to assassinate Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, the...