New York Times News Service

Talk about teachable moments. In schools and shopping malls and around the dining room table, the subject of teenage pregnancy and sex was suddenly and uncomfortably in the air as...

The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday denied California and 16 other states the right to set their own standards for carbon dioxide pollution from automobiles. EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson, said...

The CIA has agreed to make documents related to the destruction of interrogation videotapes available to the House Intelligence Committee and to allow the agency's top lawyer, John Rizzo, to...

The UN Security Council signaled Wednesday that it would not be able to resolve the status of Kosovo, the breakaway Serbian province, and that a solution would have to come...

Officials in the Israeli prime minister's office reacted coolly Wednesday to an indirect approach by the Hamas ruler in Gaza offering talks for a truce. The offer was relayed through...

At least four top White House lawyers took part in discussions with the CIA between 2003 and 2005 about whether to destroy videotapes showing the secret interrogations of two Al...

Officials from Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns and other major banks are in talks to bail out a struggling bond-insurance company that has guaranteed $26 billion in mortgage securities, according to...

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an unannounced visit to Iraq on Tuesday, visiting the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and then Baghdad, as tensions mounted along the country's mountainous...

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York is not the only one trying to capitalize on the historic nature of her presidential candidacy. At least two companies that cater to...

The last couple of months have seen a flurry of announcements and warnings from the federal government, doctor's panels and manufacturers regarding the efficacy and safety of cold and cough...