Nicholas Riccardi

Under pressure from Republican lawmakers, the Obama administration is considering whether to reinstate more than a third of the 77 controversial oil- and gas-drilling leases near national parks in the...

For years, abortion foes tried to put Dr. George Tiller out of business. One of the few American physicians who performed late-term abortions, he was a target of violent extremists...

The governor has ridiculed her, former colleagues have criticized her, and constituents have demanded that she be run out of town. But Boulder County District Atty. Mary Lacy on Tuesday...

A month after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Louisiana coast, coroners have positively identified just 32 of the nearly 800 corpses collected at a temporary morgue, officials said Wednesday. Only about...

Charlene Gonzalez wanted to get out of town before Hurricane Katrina hit, but because she was a nurse at the only hospital in this low-lying waterside town, she would lose...

Grainy video of a frightened-looking 20-year-old American soldier, wearing camouflage, a floppy hat and surrounded by five masked men, was aired Friday on the Arab television station Al Jazeera. "My...

As Los Angeles gears up for mass protests during the upcoming Democratic National Convention, police and activists are looking to this city for clues on how to manage the potentially...