A new report on civil unions is likely to accelerate the debate over gay marriage. The first government report since New Jersey began allowing same-sexunions last year says civil unions create a "second-class status" forgay couples.

Thomas T. Roberts, the labor arbitrator best known for finding Major League Baseball owners guilty of colluding to prevent the ...

Randy Johnson sounds encouraged. The 284-game winner says he feels better than he did in spring training last year, when the ...

Blackhawks coach Denis Savard just wants his team to continue playing the way it's been playing.

Pakistanis vote in a parliamentary election Monday, ending a campaign that has been overshadowed by violence -- including the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto. The vote could empower a new civilian government. But many say they believe the country's

President Bush visited a hospital today in Tanzania, where U.S. funds are helping to combat Africa's twin scourges of AIDS and malaria. Among the various U.S. projects in Africa are malaria vaccine studies conducted by the National Institutes of Health

Murlidhar Devidas Amte, better known as Baba Amte, was a follower of Ghandi, who dedicated his life to restoring dignity to lepers, the disabled and the marginalized. He died Feb. 9 at 93. Andrea Seabrook talks with a volunteer at

The Hawaii caucuses are on Tuesday, and native son and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama is expected to do well in the contest. Many Hawaii residents appreciate his campaign theme of unifying the party, but they are also excited to vote

The parliament of Kosovo, the autonomous region of Serbia, has declared its independence, spurred by the region's majority ethnic Albanians. The move comes nine years after the United States and NATO began airstrikes against Serbian military targets in the former