M By John Daniszewski and David Holley The Los Angeles Times OSCOW, Oct. 26 - Police commandos armed with sleeping gas and blazing guns stormed a theater here early today and overcame Chechen separatists...

R By Daniel Chang, Shannon McCaffrey and Martin Merzer Knight Ridder Newspapers OCKVILLE, Md. (KRT) - Police declared the Washington-area sniper murders solved Thursday. In custody was a veteran of the...

Mexican and Canadian commuter students who study part time at U.S. colleges will be able to do so legally with a new student visa. Congress passed a bill last week that would create two new classes of...

M By David Holley and Sergei L. Loiko The Los Angeles Times OSCOW, Oct. 25 - Chechen guerrillas who took over a theater here in mid-performance shot a woman to death, authorities said Thursday, increasing...

The USA Patriot Act might deter international students from studying in the United States, say foreign students and an immigration attorney at the University. Part of the legislation - which Congress passed...

R By Shannon McCaffrey, Tony Pugh and Kristi Heim Knight Ridder Newspapers OCKVILLE, Md. (KRT) - Authorities late Wednesday said they are seeking a former Army soldier and a juvenile believed to be his...

It's been one year to the day since Congress approved the USA Patriot Act, the sweeping legislation that granted federal investigators broad new powers to combat terrorism. One of the act's lesser-known...

P By James M. O'Neill Knight Ridder Newspapers HILADELPHIA (KRT) - College campuses, which served as key incubators for the antiwar protests of previous decades, are spawning a new generation of activists...

WBy Frank Davies Knight Ridder Newspapers ASHINGTON (KRT) - Because of election debacles in Florida, voters in about half the states will see "modest changes" at the polls when they vote Nov. 5, according...

H By Daniel Rubin Knight Ridder Newspapers AMBURG, Germany (KRT) - The first person to go on trial on charges of aiding the Sept. 11 hijackers acknowledged Tuesday that he had trained at an al-Qaida terrorist...