Washington's state employees already are shouldering their share of the burden as state officials solve the state's budget crisis, writes guest columnist Diane...

Baltimore First Deputy Mayor Andrew B. Frank leaves City Hall this spring after three years of handling economic development, one of the most crucial issues in a city with chronic high unemployment,...

Police inspected the offices of aid group World Vision in Oghi, Pakistan on Wednesday after militants killed at least six people there in an...

Filed at 1:00 p.m. ET BEIJING (AP) -- Like the United States, China is having its own tea party movement, but this one has a very different agenda. Police have long tried to shush and isolate...

Filed at 12:27 p.m. ET KAYALIK, Turkey (AP) -- Turkish officials on Wednesday lowered the death toll in this week's magnitude 6 earthquake from 51 to 41. A statement issued by the governor's office...

Filed at 12:28 p.m. ET MOSCOW (AP) -- Russian traffic police are under investigation for ordering civilian motorists to park their cars across a highway -- and remain inside -- to block a fleeing...

Filed at 12:15 p.m. ET Israel's plan to build 1,600 new apartments in contested east Jerusalem has thrown a spotlight on the city at the core of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. --What's the...

Filed at 12:29 p.m. ET MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- Fighting between Islamist insurgents and government forces killed at least 17 people in the Somali capital on Wednesday, a medical official said. ...

Michelle Bachelet leaves office on Thursday with a chunk of her country in ruins -- and her popularity in the clouds. Despite complaints that aid was slow to reach the hungry and homeless, experts...

Filed at 1:25 p.m. ET CINCINNATI (AP) -- Two former Ohio day care workers have been charged with a misdemeanor for slipping an over-the-counter dietary supplement into candy and giving it to their...

More Politics News WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Democratic leaders announced Wednesday that they will ban the much-criticized practice of using annual spending bills to direct pet projects to for-profit...

Bill Gates have told a Senate panel that U.S. investments in fighting AIDS, malaria and other diseases in underdeveloped nations play a vital role in improving America's image abroad. Clinton said...

MDR-NC300D noise-canceling earbuds , retail price $300, and plugged them into an iPod. I know, more earbuds.  Sony advances the noise-cancellation art for tiny buds by a level or two. The NC300Ds...

Filed at 11:42 a.m. ET EDITOR'S NOTE -- Miles Edelsten is a senior producer for Associated Press Television News and has covered Japan for 10 years. OTSUCHI, Japan (AP) -- As soon as the fishermen...

Filed at 11:48 a.m. ET NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) -- A suspect's remorse over his alleged role in the theft of the body of Cyprus' former president led to the corpse's discovery and three arrests, a...

Palestinian probes into alleged war crimes in Gaza. The parliament also called on Israel to immediately open border crossings with the Gaza Strip, saying its blockade is worsening the humanitarian...

Filed at 11:21 a.m. ET JERUSALEM (AP) -- An Israeli supermarket commercial is looking to cash in on the infamous surveillance footage of an assassination team killing...

Filed at 10:17 a.m. ET ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) -- Hundreds of protesters in Nigeria's capital are demanding to see the ailing president, who has not appeared publicly since returning from hospital...

Filed at 11:49 a.m. ET POMPANO BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Four workers are safe after getting stuck on a drawbridge that went up unexpectedly in Florida Pompano Beach city spokeswoman Sandra King says...

Filed at 11:34 a.m. ET THERMAL, Calif. (AP) -- They say crime doesn't pay. For one robber in California, it did -- but not much. Authorities in Riverside County say a woman with a gun robbed 11...

Filed at 11:43 a.m. ET HARRISON, N.Y. (AP) -- The driver of a Toyota Prius told police in suburban New York that the car accelerated on its own, then lurched down a driveway, across a road and into...

So Muslim politicians are against the bill because it will cut Muslim representation? Why don't they just ensure that Muslim women fill part of the quota? Of course, I know the answer to this but I...

Freecycle , a much larger and older site for listing giveaways. But it adds a useful combination of mapping, messaging and sharing features. Got something to give away? Map it and it’ll show...

has plenty of formula elements -- a climactic football game, a wildy corny ending, a bookworm with big glasses -- but it's much, much better than it should be, because everybody in it gets to be an...

World Food Program’s Somalia operations . It suggests that the program rebuild the food distribution system — which serves at least 2.5 million people and whose aid was worth about $485...

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , shot back Wednesday at American allegations that Iran was providing support to Afghan insurgents, accusing the United States of playing its own “double game” in the...

MITO, JAPAN — The diktat from the governor was the kind of sweeping order that gives Japanese bureaucrats heart attacks: plans for a three-story airport terminal, painstakingly laid over years,...

Filed at 9:43 a.m. ET ROME (AP) -- Italian police say several Mafia suspects have been arrested in raids in Sicily, New York and Miami. Police in Palermo say the crackdown on the Cosa Nostra crime...

United Nations official says 90 Rwandan rebels have been killed in restive eastern Congo. Spokesman Madnodje Mounoubai said Wednesday that Hutu rebels from neighboring Rwanda were killed during a...

Moammar Gadhafi's call for holy war, against Switzerland. Last week, Libya summoned the U.S. charge d'affaires and threatened negative repercussions if the U.S. failed to apologize. Libyan Foreign...

Nelson Mandela's ex-wife bitterly criticizing the anti-apartheid icon has prompted outraged headlines in South Africa. In Tuesday Evening...

More Politics News WASHINGTON (AP) -- Greece is a financial basket case, begging for international help. Is America heading down that same road? Many of the same risky financial practices that now...

The episode’s primary accomplishment, though, was the (perhaps) final humanization of the once pure-evil Ben Linus, a process that’s been going on for several seasons and that may have...

A Syncrude tailings pond in Alberta. The company is defending itself against criminal charges after more than 1,000 birds died in such a pond. In an Alberta court, the oil sands...

Corey Haim , an actor whose status as a teen heartthrob of the 1980s gave way to harsh adult realities of substance abuse and rehabilitation, has died, the Los Angeles Police Department said on...

LISBON — Portugal sold more bonds than initially planned Wednesday — at a lower borrowing cost than the previous similar issue — suggesting markets were becoming more confident...

March 10, 2010 In the late summer of 2007, Baghdad was buzzing with talk of a coup. Iraq was gripped by horrific civil war, and the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki seemed at best unable...

Writer Susan Konig ran for office in her community though having no political background. She explains why anyone who cares about where they live should...

BRUSSELS — European antitrust regulators took a step Wednesday toward approving an expanded alliance between British Airways, American Airlines and Iberia after the airlines offered to give up...

Filed at 7:26 a.m. ET SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea plans to replace its top diplomat in Switzerland who is believed to be a key manager of...

Filed at 8:03 a.m. ET MADRID (AP) -- A Spanish aid worker kidnapped late last year in Mauritania by suspected Islamic militants was freed Wednesday but two colleagues remain in captivity, the...

Filed at 6:49 a.m. ET RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates was keeping up the pressure on Iran on Wednesday, consulting with the United States' closest and most...

U.N. bomb disposal unit into the Gaza Strip to defuse unexploded munitions left over from last year's fighting. The Israeli military says the sappers entered Gaza on Wednesday and will work for...

Filed at 7:55 a.m. ET JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- South Africa's governing party says a leading member didn't mean it literally when he sang about killing...

Filed at 7:59 a.m. ET PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The families of three Americans detained in Iran for months say their loved ones have been allowed to call home for the first time. The families said in a...

Filed at 7:47 a.m. ET MIAMI (AP) -- The major hospital network Miami relies on for trauma care is close to insolvency and could be cut off by suppliers. Executives for Jackson Health System...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A tour of the United States arranged by the State Department to improve ties to Pakistani legislators ended in a public relations fiasco when the members of the group...

March 10, 2010 The great thing about racists is they'll always take the bait. You won't get far into an immigration-reform debate, for instance, before the GOP's more zealous legislators start doing...

Liz Cheney, board member, Keep America Safe, addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010. She recently released a controversial ad denouncing...

Our view: The end of court-ordered supervision for the Baltimore City school’s special education programs is a win-win situation for both students and...