Glen Elsasser

Leona Helmsley's life and notoriety have inspired hatred, scorn, tabloid headlines, a stiff jail sentence-and art, in the form of a new multimedia installation by Minnesota artist Judith Yourman. Her...

Thurgood Marshall, one of the most influential Americans of the 20th Century and the first black to be elevated to the U.S. Supreme Court, died Sunday at the Bethesda Naval...

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to review an Ohio reapportionment case that raises the issue of how far states must go to maximize the voting strength of blacks and...

The Federal Highway Administration has announced a pilot project to try to relieve traffic congestion in the Washington area with television. It`s giving $650,000 to Virginia and Maryland to install...

Charles Walker was to have been executed by lethal injection two years ago this spring for the murders of a young couple during a robbery in 1983. The sentence has...

A fact sheet about the Library of Congress reads like the ''Guinness Book of World Records.'' The world`s largest library has more than 81 million items on 535 miles of...

The U.S. Supreme Court removed an Illinois abortion case from its argument calendar Friday, clearing the way for a federal judge in Chicago to consider a proposed out-of-court compromise reached...

The U.S. Supreme Court gave the states new authority Monday to restrict a woman`s constitutional right to abortion, significantly limiting for the first time the effect of its landmark 1973...

The Bush administration urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to overturn the right to an abortion and said this could be done without intruding on the privacy of a...

States have broad authority to set utility rates and deny increases to companies for failed nuclear power projects, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. Chief Justice William Rehnquist said a...