New England, which used six of its seven draft picks on defensive players in April, passes an early test.
2012
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Al-Qaida joining ranks of rebels in Syria
The intelligence helps to explain the reluctance of the Obama administration to offer military aid.
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Mel Stuart, 83, the director of ‘Willy Wonka,’ documentaries
Mel Stuart had firmly established himself as an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker in the 1960s when his daughter Madeline, a big fan of Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” insisted he turn the popular children’s book into a movie. “It was my favorite book at the time, and I told him this would make […]
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Legion Regional: Another win for First Title
First Title routs Saratoga, N.Y., stays in the winners’ bracket, and waits for the weather.
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Olympics: NBA stars one win from invincibility
The U.S. men’s basketball team cruises past Argentina to set up a gold-medal game on Sunday against Spain.
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Election 2012: Character attacks masked in TV ads
Most of the so-called television ads are only being seen on the Internet or occasional news shows.
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Louisiana sinkhole swallows whole acre
It sits on an underground mountain of salt and neighbors had reported tremors and gas bubbles.
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Muslims hope for new start in Tennessee
They say they never faced problems until they tried to build a new mosque.
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As her African tour ends, Clinton sets travel record
The secretary of state braves an Ebola outbreak in Uganda and sees a rare snowfall in South Africa.
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Nation/World Dispatches
NEW YORK Time, CNN suspend Zakaria for plagiarizing paragraphs Time editor-at-large and CNN host Fareed Zakaria has been suspended by both the magazine and the network for lifting several paragraphs by another writer for his use in a recent Time column. Zakaria apologized Friday, declaring in a statement he made “a terrible mistake,” adding, “It […]