On The National Front

(SUMMARY) WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Thursday will free 10 states from the strict and sweeping requirements of the No Child Left Behind law, giving leeway to states that promise to improve how they prepare and evaluate students, The...

(SUMMARY) LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Sinister allegations of abuse by at least two teachers in a Los Angeles school have forced awkward discussions as parents warn youngsters that people they trust - pastors, teachers, even relatives - might do things that could hurt...

(SUMMARY) NEW YORK (AP) -- On a chilly winter afternoon, Andrej Pejic settles into a Manhattan cafe with a cup of Earl Grey tea, sitting gracefully, long legs crossed. The blue-eyed fashion model gazes out a window, unaware that almost every man sitting at...

(SUMMARY) CLEVELAND (AP) -- Newt Gingrich, suddenly in danger of losing his perch as Mitt Romney's strongest GOP challenger, is fine-tuning his presidential campaign to place more emphasis on raising money, guarding his home turf and trying to avoid nasty...

(SUMMARY) The Obama administration's new mandate that religious organizations pay for their workers' birth control has become a bludgeon for Republican culture warriors, as social issues have surged to the forefront in the presidential campaign....

(SUMMARY) Nearly two million Americans could benefit from mortgage relief from the nation’s biggest banks, as part of a broad government settlement to be announced as early as Thursday.

(SUMMARY) WASHINGTON (AP) -- The prospect of conflict with Iran has eclipsed Afghanistan as the key national security issue with head-spinning speed. After years of bad blood and an international impasse over Iran's disputed nuclear program, why does the...

(SUMMARY) CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) -- Austin Rivers and his Duke teammates kept hanging around, doing just enough to keep North Carolina from blowing the game open until the Tar Heels finally gave them an opening....

(SUMMARY) WASHINGTON (AP) -- Facing domestic political pressures, the Bush and Obama administrations released or transferred 600 terror suspects deemed an acceptable threat from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, only to face the challenge that 27...

(SUMMARY) The Bay Area and Silicon Valley expect the windfall from the Facebook stock offering to make their in-demand region even hotter.

(SUMMARY) We need a national conversation about the dimensions of poverty or a chunk of working-class America could be calcified into an underclass.

(SUMMARY) Home-schoolers may not want their children in the classroom but they'd like to see them on the football field. Is that their right?

(SUMMARY) In order to survive, Athens has no choice but to accept Europe’s conditions of harsher fiscal austerity.

(SUMMARY) The House should approve the full range of reform in the Senate bill that bans insider trading.

(SUMMARY) A study provides sound evidence that New York City students at small, specialized high schools are more likely to graduate than students in large, traditional high schools.

(SUMMARY) House Republicans want to starve mass transit while doing even more for Big Oil. The House bill needs revised. If it passes, the Senate must stop it.

(SUMMARY) The issue of covering contraceptives in health care plans has Catholic bishops in an uproar. Let’s try to talk through this in a calm, measured manner.

(SUMMARY) Haiti’s culture of impunity must end with the prosecution of Jean-Claude Duvalier.

(SUMMARY) I’m not just some guy who once poured coffee into your paper cup.

(SUMMARY) Catholic hospitals are now claiming a special right to conscience that trumps law.