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Parents of Neda Soltan, the young woman shot dead near protests, are banned from mourning and her funeral is cancelled, neighbours say. They also said that her family no longer lives in the four-floor apartment building on Meshkini Street.

A Washington, D.C., Metro train struck another train on the same Red Line track at the height of the evening rush hour yesterday, killing at least six and injuring at least 70 in the deadliest accident in Metrorail's 33-year-history.

The White House has two kinds of aides: The ones who prefer to think of their boss as gifted but human, and the ones who think their boss is on a date night with destiny. The second group feels that Mr. Obama summons the three-point swishes when he...

Many moderate clerics, some of whom are believed to be members of the powerful Assembly of Experts, have questioned the wisdom of Khamenei in hastily endorsing Ahmadinejad's "victory". The Assembly, which selects the country's supreme leader, is...

NFL receiver Donte' Stallworth began serving a jail sentence Tuesday for hitting and killing Miami resident Mario Reyes on March 14th while driving drunk. Stallworth pled guilty to DUI manslaughter and was sentenced to 30 days in jail. 30 DAYS!

In her celebrity sparring with David Letterman, Tina Fey, and Katie Couric, Sarah Palin always displays impressive mastery of her subject matter: Sarah Palin.

The Supreme Court today made it harder for older workers who are laid off or demoted to win a claim of age discrimination. Justices, overturning a jury award won by a 54-year-old who was demoted, say workers bear the full burden of proof.

For the past four years, Republican reformers have been warning of political disaster ahead. Our partys ideas have fallen behind the times, we are losing key demographic groups,

The Iranian elite has been caught off-guard and is trying to read its own society to understand how broad is the societal discontent reflected in the mass protests. This calculus is more crucial than whether the election results are legitimate or fraud.

As more customers choose - or are forced - to fill prescriptions by mail, independent pharmacies are struggling to survive. Yet independent pharmacies as a group are blocked by antitrust laws from negotiating collectively.

The financial media are desperate to find good news in the troubled finance and housing sectors, the industries that got us into this mess. If you're waiting on housing to get us out of it, then pull up a comfy chair because it will be a long wait.

Sarah Palin has accepted comedian David Letterman’s apology made during Monday night’s broadcast of “The Late Show” for crude jokes made about her and her teen daughters last week.

It was after midnight. Nearly everyone inside the Hebrew Home at Riverdale, which hugs the banks of the Hudson River in the northern Bronx, was fast asleep. The group crept past a large fish tank and rounded a corner, startling a security guard who...

“We’ve spent a trillion dollars prosecuting the war on drugs,” Norm Stamper, a former police chief of Seattle, told me. “What do we have to show for it? Drugs are more readily available, at lower prices and higher levels of potency. It’s a disma

Sarah Palin says David Letterman owes an apology to young women across the country for his joke about her daughter. The Alaska governor appeared on NBC's "Today" show Friday, continuing a feud with the CBS "Late Show" funnyman over his joke earlier...

Measured by their lasting impact on Constitution and country, many of the greatest Supreme Court justices have been irascible, socially distant, personally isolated, arrogant or even downright mean.

The House approved a plan to give vouchers of up to $4,500 to consumers who trade in their gas-guzzling clunkers for more fuel-efficient models. Trade-ins must be drivable, get no more than 18 miles to the gallon, and be 1984 models or newer.

The fun police are patrolling Pennsylvania Avenue. Given the serious times, the chatter goes, should Barack Obama be allowed to enjoy date night with Michelle in New York, sightseeing in Paris, golf outings in D.C.?