An Iraqi infant with severe birth defects arrived in Atlanta Saturday for medical treatment that was offered after U.S. soldiers discovered the child during a raid on a home.

Army Spc. Robert Leonard awoke from the fog of hours spent in a morphine-induced sleep, his fingernails blackened and his face unshaven. "Will I be able to walk?" he mumbled to a doctor at his bedside.

Fawn Hall, Oliver North's secretary during the Iran Contra Scandal, said in her testimony during the Congressional investigation of Iran Contra: [T]here were "times when you have to go above the written law." And defenders of President Bush's disregard for

The longest homecourt win streak in the nation is over at 32 games. Hassan Adams scored a career-high 32 points to lead unranked Arizona over No. 7 Washington in a double-overtime thriller, 96-95.

Torrential rain in Northern California causes rivers to flood and prompts officials to close many highways in the region. Steve Sharpe of the Sonoma County Emergency Operation Center speaks with Debbie Elliott.

Despite the destruction still evident four months after Hurricane Katrina, the city decided to welcome the new year with fireworks, concerts, and in a twist on the Times Square ball drop, the lowering of a giant gumbo pot to mark

Reconsidering the federal budget should be one of Congress' first priorities in the new year, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Saturday in the Democrats' weekly radio address.

Researchers at Harvard this week announced success at a method that could one day—maybe in several years, if all goes well—let scientists produce new stem cell lines without cloning or destroying new embryos.

Several studies have been published recently about Clostridium difficile, a microbe that can cause serious digestive illness. Because of overuse of antibiotics, this germ may have mutated into a toxic new strain.

We never know when tragedy will strike. When a storm, or an attack, or a 60-foot tsunami wave will destroy our homes, make us run for our lives, sweep away what we love the most. And so it was on

Flames rise in the heart of Texas; the birds, the birds, the evil birds; double-crossing the Red Cross; Demjanjuk may face deportation; don't take me out to the ballpark; a violent mob in Milwaukee; to dig or not to dig,

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4

Just days after graduating from Dartmouth College in 1999 with a degree in classics, Nathaniel Fick entered the Marines and by 2001 found himself on the front lines of the war on terrorism. His new book, One Bullet Away: The

HUWIJA, IRAQ--For hours, soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division chase shadows across the streets of this small Sunni Arab city. The crowds hide a sniper--or more likely, several snipers, who follow military patrols in a car or truck, wait for

BAGHDAD--In his well-appointed living room, Mustafa Ibrahim has been fidgeting in his chair for half an hour. He leans farther and farther forward in ever more intense monologue until he can restrain himself no longer and starts shouting: "The election

A shrewd Iraqi observer, Nibras Kazimi, had it mostly right when he said, a week after the December 15 parliamentary voting, that Iraq had held a census rather than an election. Those who bet against "identity politics" were not vindicated.

OSUL, IRAQ--It is 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, December 10, five days before Iraq's national elections. A red four-door sedan carrying four men cruises through the western half of this freewheeling oil town. The old beater of a car doesn't attract

The nondescript vans motored along city streets, drove through parking lots, and idled on the driveways of suburban homes. Inside, government technicians monitored sensitive gauges, testing for the presence of radiation in the air. The classified program, run by the

The years 1969 and '70 were tough ones for the San Diego Street Journal, a muckraking, underground newspaper staffed by a ragtag group of antiwar activists and grad school dropouts. Vigilantes led by an FBI informant wrecked the paper's printing