SAT Reading Scores Fall to Lowest Level on Record
Educators note more test-takers had a first language other than English. Read »
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Sep 14, 2011
Bystanders Save 10-Year-Old Hit by Taxi
A 10-year-old boy who was thrown through the air and pinned under a parked car after being hit by a taxi Wednesday... Read »
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Jul 7, 2011
Live: Casey Anthony Murder Trial Closing Arguments
The trial of Casey Anthony, the Florida woman accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter, continues. Read »
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Jul 3, 2011
Japan to Nationalize Nuke Plants: Report
Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku has hatched a plan that would slash Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s... Read »
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Jul 3, 2011
"500-Year" Flood Overwhelms N.D. City
12,000 people in Minot, N.D., have been left homeless as the Souris River has risen to record levels. Read »
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Jun 26, 2011
Syrians Flee to Lebanon as Army Approaches
Hundreds fled into Lebanon Saturday as the Syrian regime's military overtook a town near that border and another... Read »
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Jun 25, 2011
Car Bomb Kills at Least 35 at Afghan Medical Center
Din Mohammad Darwaish, a spokesman for the provincial governor, said that many more could have died, too, as people... Read »
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Jun 25, 2011
Third Major Fire Burns in Camden
A fire that tore through an abandoned warehouse in Camden, N.J., on Sunday is now being investigated as arson. Read »
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Jun 19, 2011
American Pilot Jailed Over Pirate Ransoms
$3.6 million are said to be at play. Read »
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Jun 19, 2011
Yelena Bonner, Rights Activist and Sakharov's Widow...
Bonner rose to prominence through work with her husband in the Russian dissident and human rights movement. Read »
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Jun 19, 2011
8 NATO Troops Killed In Afghanistan
The nationalities of the dead not yet released. Read »
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Jun 19, 2011
Hundreds Of Thousands Displaced In Sudan
Entire ethnic group at risk of disappearance. Read »
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Jun 19, 2011
Libya: More Civilians Killed by NATO
Libya said the dead civilians included three children, the BBC reported. Read »
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Jun 20, 2011
Family, Friend Killed in Small Plane Crash
The four victims of a weekend plane crash in suburban New York City have been identified as a Manhattan family and... Read »
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Jun 19, 2011
More Flooding Expected In Plains Areas
South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard worried levees won't hold. Read »
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Jun 19, 2011
Syrian Troops Storm Border Town: Witnesses
"I saw shabbiha [pro-Assad gunmen] setting fire to two houses," a lawyer in the Jisr-al-Shughour region... Read »
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Jun 18, 2011
Karzai: U.S. Talking with Taliban
The Afghan president told reporters today that "peace talks have started with [the Taliban] already and it is... Read »
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Jun 18, 2011
S. Korea Accidentally Fires at Passenger Jet
Two soldiers fired at the plane, which carried 119 passengers, with their K-2 rifles for about 10 minutes around 4... Read »
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Jun 18, 2011
N.Y. Target Workers Vote Down Unionization
Efforts to make a Target store in Valley Stream, N.Y., the chain's first union shop have hit a snag: employees... Read »
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Jun 18, 2011
