September 3, 2010
The United States Justice Department is filing an "unprecedented" lawsuit against Joe Arpaio, the controversial sheriff of Arizona's Maricopa County. In announcing the legal action Thursday, a Justice Department official said that Sheriff Arpaio is refusing to cooperate with a federal investigati...
September 3, 2010
Pakistani officials say suspected U.S. missiles have killed five people in a tribal region near the Afghan border. Two intelligence officials say three missiles hit a house in a village near Miran Shah, the main town in North Waziristan, on Friday evening. They say the identity of the slain is...
September 1, 2010
More than a hundred thousand people in the tiny West African nation of Benin have lost their savings in a Ponzi scheme run by a now-defunct company that appeared to be publicly endorsed by the country's president. The government said in a statement last month that more than 130,000 people gave th...
September 1, 2010
In his steadfast confidence in the rightness of our course, and his ferocity in the manner of pursuing it, Obama echoed his predecessor's approach Tuesday night. I approach President Obama's address to the nation Tuesday night as one whose interest in war is principally an interest in ethics. I a...
August 31, 2010
With three police officers killed in separate instances in two months, and calls from some Illinois lawmakers for the National Guard to patrol its most violent streets, Chicago once again finds itself under growing pressure to rein in crime. Although this year hasn't been Chicago's worst, the pol...
August 31, 2010
The mother of "The Brady Bunch," a former NFL quarterback, one of the self-proclaimed "guidos" from "Jersey Shore" and the daughter of Sarah Palin are among the celebrities who will cha-cha-cha on the 11th season of "Dancing with the Stars." Tom Bergeron and Brooke Burke, hosts of the ABC ballroo...