Karen Brandon

A citywide curfew imposed by Mayor Charles Luken left downtown Cincinnati eerily quiet Thursday night as police cars swarmed the streets, creating a tense calm in a city torn by...

There is something Texans love as much as the wide open road in a state so expansive as to inspire poetry. ("The sun is riz, the sun is set and...

Al Gore said Thursday that George W. Bush's proposals for taxes, entitlement programs and dealing with gun violence raise the question of whether Bush has what it takes to lead...

During the heyday, Tom Cruise and wife Nicole Kidman gave Demi Moore a traveling humidor, and Danny DeVito let it be known that Arnold Schwarzenegger had turned him into a...

From the backwoods compounds of the Christian Identity movement to the one-room Illinois headquarters of the World Church of the Creator, white supremacy organizations are stepping up recruitment efforts to...

When it came to politics, the old Gregory Slayton typified the Silicon Valley nouveau riche. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Business School, Slayton was essentially apolitical, too busy...

The young man in jeans sat at the bar with a $3.75 beer in front of him and talked about being from Chicago. He was in California, he said, to...

Two decades ago when Californians fired the shots that launched a nationwide tax revolt, their weapon was the ballot initiative. Since then, armed with initiatives, voters have banned affirmative action...

Just three days after they charged two men with possessing biological material suspected of being deadly anthrax bacteria for use as a weapon, FBI agents said Saturday that tests showed...