Nation & World

Published
January 23, 2011

Bath salt stimulants pose growing U.S. drug threat

From the Deep South to California, emergency calls come in to police and poison control centers.
Published
January 23, 2011

Tea party figure to lead N.H. Republicans

DERRY, N.H. – New Hampshire Republicans elected a tea party figure as their leader and rejected the establishment-backed candidate, a sign that activists in this early-voting presidential state have embraced the anti-government message that helped them make major gains in November’s election. Former gubernatorial candidate Jack Kimball edged businesswoman Juliana Bergeron in a race decided by […]
Published
January 23, 2011

Shriver remembered as accomplished idealist

POTOMAC, Md. – R. Sargent Shriver was always an optimist, pioneering the Peace Corps and running the War on Poverty during the turbulent 1960s — an idealist even as the running mate on a Democratic presidential ticket doomed for failure. At his funeral Mass on Saturday, mourners from philanthropist and musician Bono to Vice President […]
Published
January 22, 2011

In Focus: This year, spring hopes eternal

The recent barrage of snowstorms is wreaking havoc on budgets, school schedules and psyches.
Published
January 22, 2011

Hundreds flock to wake for Shriver

Journalist Bill Moyers and former Sen. Chris Dodd were scheduled to eulogize the Kennedy in-law at Friday's gathering.

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Published
January 22, 2011

Nazi hunter Tuviah Friedman dies at 88

Tuviah Friedman survived years in a series of concentration camps during World War II. His parents and two siblings perished. Friedman, who died Jan. 13 at 88 in Haifa, Israel, made it his life’s work to bring his captors to justice. After the war, he was credited with helping to find Adolf Eichmann, the German […]
Published
January 22, 2011

Crowds cheer Giffords motorcade

The wounded congresswoman's transfer from Tucson, Ariz., to a Houston hospital goes flawlessly.
Published
January 22, 2011

Firm ending production of execution drug

Sodium thiopental is already in short supply, causing delays or disruptions of executions in several states.
Published
January 22, 2011

Nation Dispatches

ATLANTA MLK’s daughter won’t lead embattled civil rights group For more than a year, the daughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. put off taking her oath as president of the landmark civil rights group co-founded by her father – and now she doesn’t want the job at all. When the Rev. Bernice King […]
Published
January 22, 2011

Former spy makes debut on new television show

But the secrets Anna Chapman discusses are about the occult, not her years of spying in the United States.