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When Mr. S hits the blackjack tables at the Foxwoods casino in eastern Connecticut, he is no longer a construction worker in his 20s laboring for a weekly paycheck. Dressed...

CLEVELAND -- It was a theft so large and brazen that even law-enforcement officials admit some admiration for it. One suspect, the authorities say, spent nine months working for an...

For the last several weeks, reporters, pundits, bloggers and political operatives have turned their forensic powers on Hillary Rodham Clinton's so-called crying moment -- the moment in a New Hampshire...

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in a rare public rebuke, has upbraided a White House envoy who criticized U.S. diplomacy toward North Korea that is aimed at coaxing the North...

One of the best ways to get an infection in the hospital is to have a urinary catheter installed (don't everyone rush out at once). Almost half of all infections...

A new, highly drug-resistant strain of the "flesh-eating" MRSA bacteria is being spread among gay men in San Francisco and Boston, researchers report. In a study published online by the...

Congo's government reached an agreement Monday with a renegade general to end an insurgency that has forced more than 400,000 people from their homes in the volatile east of the...

At Ball State University in Indiana, a 30-year-old Iraqi doctor named Omer Salih Mahdi is just starting his second semester of journalism school. But he comes better prepared than most...

Taxi drivers here have never been shy about sharing their views. President Bush? The royals? Cabbies are sure to have an opinion. But what if they start talking about Texas...

At first the violence seemed as spontaneous as it was shocking, with machete-wielding mobs hacking people to death and burning women and children alive in a country that was celebrated...