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...

W By Shannon McCaffrey Knight Ridder Newspapers ASHINGTON - A sharply divided Supreme Court refused Monday to consider abolishing the execution of juvenile killers. By a 5-4 margin the court declined to...

R By Ron Hutcheson, Ben Finley and Sumana Chatterjee Knight Ridder Newspapers OCKVILLE, Md. - A possible suspect in the Washington-area sniper killings called police Monday, but authorities said the conversation...

W By Susan C. Thomson and Joseph Plambeck St. Louis Post-Dispatch ASHINGTON - Students at the nation's four-year public colleges and universities are paying an average of 9.6 percent more in tuition this...

H By Cliff Churgin and Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson Knight Ridder Newspapers ADERA, Israel (KRT) - A suicide car bombing destroyed a bus at the Karkur Junction on Monday, about five miles from Hadera in northern...

The Department of Agriculture implemented nationwide organic food standards Monday, more than a decade after Congress assigned the task. "Today, when consumers see the USDA national organic seal on products,...

P By Albert B. Crenshaw The Washington Post rospective college students and their families hoping to sign up for Maryland's prepaid tuition program this year are going to have to wait awhile - and probably...

A By The Washington Post n international team of astronomers says it has confirmed that an enormous black hole lurks at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy. Rainer Schodel of the Max Planck Institute for...

W By Sonni Efron The Los Angeles Times ASHINGTON - What was Kim Jong Il thinking? As North Korea-watchers in Washington and Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday digested the bombshell admission that Pyongyang...

W By Karen DeYoung and Colum Lynch The Washington Post ASHINGTON - The United States has agreed to drop its insistence that a United Nations resolution on Iraq include an automatic trigger for military...