When U.S. law groups announced in April that they were hiring the nation's top criminal defense lawyers to defend alleged al Qaeda terrorists at the Guantánamo war court, one executive called the lawyers "The A Team.'' Now, they're the No-Pay Team.
In the hills above the University of California's Berkeley campus, nine protesters gathered in front of the home of a toxicology professor, their faces covered with scarves and hoods despite the warm spring weather.
MEDICARE
Steven Polansky, who's been an obstetrician and gynecologist in Sacramento, Calif., since 1977, said he couldn't afford a 10.6 percent pay cut from Congress.
CAMPAIGN 2008
A leading Hispanic organization is demanding assurances from the two major presidential candidates that they'll push for comprehensive immigration revisions and dramatically increase Hispanic representation in the federal government.
CAMPAIGN 2008 | ECONOMY
John McCain tried Monday to relaunch his campaign with a pledge to use broad-based tax cuts to revive the ailing economy -- and a string of barbs contrasting his views with Barack Obama's.
AIR TRAVEL
Rising jet fuel prices are being cited by airlines as the reason for cancelling service to smaller U.S. cities, but an increasingly broken air travel system is as much to blame, according to a new book by a former high-level Federal Aviation Administration official.
WOMEN'S RIGHTS
The catcalls and salacious commentary that generations of American construction workers rained down on passing women are fading, according to many women and to workers who say they've reformed.
America's days as an automobile nation are far from over. But the specter of high gas prices becoming permanent has forced the nation to reassess its ''Yeah, right'' attitude toward public transportation and to reconsider how Americans get from point A to point B.
SUPREME COURT
Justice Anthony Kennedy vaulted from California to the Supreme Court 20 years ago, seemingly with his eyes wide open. ''In a court that often seems tightly divided, everybody is going to be looking at you,'' Kennedy advised the Senate Judiciary Committee at the time.
CAMPAIGN 2008 | NEWS ANALYSIS
In just the past two weeks, Gov. Charlie Crist has reversed on offshore oil drilling, made national news with a historic Everglades land deal to buy U.S. Sugar, and announced his engagement to his glam girlfriend of nine months for a fall wedding.
JESSE HELMS | 1921-2008
Former Sen. Jesse A. Helms, the son of a town police chief who rose to national prominence as one of the leading lions of the American right and co-authored a signature law on Cuba sanctions, died Friday. He was 86.
IRAQ
The U.S. military in Iraq celebrated the Fourth of July with what it billed as ''the largest reenlistment ceremony ever held,'' with 1,215 soldiers, Marines, sailors and airmen taking the oath.
After five years of missed birthdays, giftless Christmases, and lonely Father's Days, former hostage Keith Stansell spoke to his family for the first time early Thursday morning.
OPERATION CHECK
The daring operation to snatch former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and three American contractors from FARC guerrillas came after countless hours of planning and careful rehearsals, right up to the night before the drama unfolded in the Colombian jungle.
CHARITIES
Charitable giving declined in the first quarter of this year, according to a bellwether study by a consulting firm for nonprofit agencies.
