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By Jim Tankersley, Tribune Washington Bureau
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Tuesday he will split the troubled agency that regulates offshore drilling in two, the first in what...
By Jim Tankersley, Tribune Washington Bureau
After months of negotiations and weeks of delay, Sens. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) will unveil their plan to limit...
By Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times
For years, urban schools have struggled with segregation. When busing failed, many lured students out of racially isolated neighborhoods...
PATRICK WALTERS
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden's older son, the Delaware attorney general, was recovering in a Philadelphia hospital...
By Geraldine Baum, Los Angeles Times
For almost four decades Edward Finch Cox has lived on the periphery of politics.
By Tina Susman, Los Angeles Times
Were it not for a surveillance camera, Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax's death may have passed as anonymously as his short life.
By Richard A. Serrano, Tribune Washington Bureau
The former mayor and governor of the popular Mexican resort area of Cancun was extradited to the United States to stand trial on allegations...
Associated Press
Here are some excerpts from the text of Solicitor General Elena Kagan's remarks on Monday after President Obama nominated her for the...
ROXANA HEGEMAN, TIM TALLEY
SEMINOLE, Okla. (AP) — Residents in the southern Plains still reeling from a deadly tornado outbreak that forecasters had warned about...
By Andrew Zajac
Poultry processing plants will have to reduce the number of chicken and turkey carcasses that test positive for the toxic bacteria...
MICHAEL J. CRUMB
WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — A former underage worker cried Monday while testifying she was exposed to harsh chemicals at an Iowa...
By Bob Drogin, Los Angeles Times
Greg Nielson pushed a joystick, and a video camera zoomed in on three men in moon suits and gas masks as they prepared to blow up a weapon...
By Ashley Powers, Los Angeles Times
When federal Judge Brian Sandoval stepped off the bench last fall, the political aristocracy all but anointed him as Nevada's next governor.
By Janet Hook, Tribune Washington Bureau
When Democrats' landmark healthcare bill passed the House one exceptionally balmy Sunday in March, Rep. David R. Obey (D-Wis.) celebrated by...
By Richard Fausset, Julie Cart and Alana Semuels, Los Angeles Times
After failing in their attempt to funnel the oil leaking under the Gulf of Mexico with a 100-ton box, BP officials on Sunday were...
By Kathleen Hennessey and Richard A. Serrano, Tribune Washington Bureau
The U.S. citizen who attempted to set off a car bomb in New York's Times Square on May 1 was trained and funded by a Pakistani militant...
By Faye Fiore, Los Angeles Times
Sometime over the last 200 years the Library of Congress came to be regarded as stuffy. This could be because its prized holdings include...