The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday it will hear arguments in two controversial college admissions lawsuits next year. The complaints focus on the use of affirmative action in undergraduate and law...

The federal government now has Ali Nasiri-Amini's credit card number. "Do you want to charge me for this service?" he said he asked a government official jokingly during his special registration interview...

K By Rajiv Chandrasekaran The Washington Post HAN BANI SAAD, Iraq - In the late 1980s, according to U.N. arms experts, military researchers at this sleepy airfield north of Baghdad tested the Zubaidy device,...

B By Pamela Constable The Washington Post AGRAM, Afghanistan - The starting point was a Soviet fighter jet carcass, the course ran between two barbed wire fences hung with land mine warnings and the finish...

Berk Yesin spent one month in a military training program in Turkey where push-ups were optional and running wasn't recommended. Three years of Koby Nahmias' life were spent in the Israeli army, where...

K By Pamela Constable The Washington Post ABUL, Afghanistan - Abdul Rahim was the most promising of his siblings, a bright and diligent student of 21. His father, a respected Islamic judge from the southern...

L By Jon Healey Los Angeles Times OS ANGELES - Sharman Networks Ltd., operator of the popular Kazaa online file-sharing network, is incorporated in the South Pacific tax haven of Vanuatu and runs its business...

U By Maggie Farley Los Angeles Times NITED NATIONS - As 17 inspectors arrived in Baghdad on Monday to prepare for their first foray to suspected weapons sites in four years, their chief told the U.N. Security...

J By Peter Hong Los Angeles Times ohn Rawls, a political philosopher who shaped late 20th century notions of social justice with ideas that guided debates over topics from affirmative action and welfare...

W By Richard A. Serrano Los Angeles Times ASHINGTON - Hate crimes and other acts of vengeance against Muslims and other immigrants from the Middle East skyrocketed nationwide after the Sept. 11 terrorist...