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...

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...

B By Glenn Frankel The Washington Post ritish officials suspended the province's local assembly in which Protestants and Catholics share power and blamed the Irish Republican Army for a crisis in the Northern...

W By Robin Wright, Tyler Marshall and Edwin Chen The Los Angeles Times ASHINGTON - Bowing to pressure from France and Russia, the United States on Wednesday offered a compromise proposal at the United...

H By Lee Hockstader The Washington Post OUSTON - A federal judge Wednesday imposed the maximum punishment on Arthur Andersen LLP for its part in obstructing a federal inquiry into the collapse of former...

W By Paul Richter and Aaron Zitner The Los Angeles Times ASHINGTON - Juan V. Corona was careful enough in crime that he killed and buried 25 farm workers in rural Sutter County, Calif., without leaving...

W By Peter Slevin and Karen DeYoung The Washington Post ASHINGTON - The North Korean government has acknowledged for the first time that it has been secretly developing nuclear weapons for years in violation...