In every era, one country stands head and shoulders above everyone else. We are fortunate that in the latter half of the 20th century, the United States is on top of the heap. We are the modern Athens,...

Apparently gays aren't human, according to the state of Maine's recent repeal of an anti-discrimination law. The voters in that state removed the legal accommodations for gays and lesbians which exist...

It may go down as one of the more embarrassing losses in recent Gophers history, during a season in which there have been several. But after surrendering a three-goal first-period lead by allowing North...

Metro-area high school students can get college credit without even leaving their classroom through a University College program. The College in the Schools program, which began in 1986, incorporates...

The Gophers wrestling team's recent surge of energy leads a person to wonder if the team can turn its competitive fire on and off at will. With the mid-season blahs cured after last weekend's domination...

The simple off-white metal box -- a DNA sequencer -- is easy to miss among the rows of flashing computers. But at $125,000, it's one of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital's most state-of-the-art tools....

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Following an hour-long meeting Monday, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said the permanent members of the Security Council told him they "need a little more time to arrive at a...

Net: All right, all right. In our continuing efforts to please our incredibly diverse audience, we will heed your bitching and let up on Iraq for a few days -- although neither you nor the Iraqi people...

MADRAS, India (AP) -- Six militants died Sunday when a bomb exploded prematurely in a house during a police raid, raising the death toll in a series of weekend blasts in southern India to 50, police said. Another...

SACRAMENTO (AP) -- Chia Yang lay in the dark and waited for her husband to fall asleep. Then she got up and changed her clothes. She slipped past the bedrooms of her son Yia, 21, and daughter Janie, 14,...