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Workers at The Children's Shelter on this city's gritty west side began last week to remove anything and everything colored red from the walls, the floors, even from their clothes....

The Justice Department has told Congress that U.S. intelligence operatives attempting to thwart terrorist attacks can legally use interrogation methods that might otherwise be prohibited under international law. The legal...

In these times of mortgage crisis and credit-card debt, of people living over their heads and losing their homes, it may be instructive to visit David and Gina Giffels, proud...

President Hamid Karzai strongly criticized the British and U.S. conduct of the war here on Friday, insisting in an interview that his government be given the lead in policy decisions....

Germaine Tillion, a major figure in contemporary French thought who used experiences studying peasants on the edge of the Sahara, fighting Nazis and surviving a concentration camp as compelling intellectual...

In the cheerless landscape of American political cinema, "Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay," the sequel to the 2004 cult favorite "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle," creates...

Cecilia Colledge, an innovative British figure skater who was the youngest athlete to compete in the Winter Olympics and who later became a world champion and Olympic silver medalist, died...

The Pakistani government is close to an agreement with the most militant tribes in its turbulent border area, whose main leader is accused of orchestrating the majority of the suicide...

The soft-colored photographs of Sze Tsung Leong capture contrasting landscapes: the verdant green of Germany; the mirage of shimmering towers in Dubai; the urban geometry of Amman, Jordan; the red-tile...

On a recent lazy afternoon, Wang Haiyang, a student at China's top art school, was quietly packing away some of his new oil paintings in the campus' printmaking department. He...