20+ hour, 33+ min ago   (208+ words) Several families have long alleged that a group of extremist religious leaders in Saudi Arabia gained influence in the Saudi government and aided the hijackers. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers were Saudis, but the Saudi government has long denied any involvement…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (982+ words) By JOSEPH FREDERICK, DAVID R. MARTIN and LEAH WILLINGHAM Holding her child, she went outside. Around her, people stared up at a gash in the north tower of the World Trade Center, smoke billowing from the building just blocks from her…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (244+ words) After a two-year investigation, authorities arrested a man on suspicion of arson in connection with a fire that destroyed several Whittier businesses, including Pizzamania, authorities announced on Tuesday. Pizzamania opened in 1973 and counts generations of employees and customers among the…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (440+ words) The announcement by the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the FDA, gives the agency some stability following months of controversy and upheaval that led to a series of high-profile departures earlier this year. The announcement names permanent…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (523+ words) Until recent years, I was the yaysayer when it came to the efficiency of the United States Postal Service, which I found could sometimes deliver mail on the following afternoon that I had posted the previous morning, at least within…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (544+ words) By TIM SULLIVAN, MARK VANCLEAVE, HALLIE GOLDEN and SAFIYAH RIDDLE, Associated Press The five wounded by gunfire included two Minneapolis police officers, while a sixth person, another officer, suffered other injuries, police Sgt. Garrett Parten said at a news conference....

2+ week, 3+ hour ago   (1128+ words) By JOCELYN NOVECK, AP National Writer Smiling on the January 1987 cover of Ms., the magazine co-founded by feminism pioneer Gloria Steinem, are its 12 Women of the Year. They include a U.S. senator, a renowned novelist, a former nun who helped Central…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (912+ words) It is one of the most perilous political efforts that a member of Congress can undertake, so it is telling that the push is being led by two lawmakers who have little to lose at this stage of their careers....

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (402+ words) After nearly a month of testimony, jurors in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial are hearing Tuesday from the final witnesses in a case that has largely been about her mental state when she strangled her three young children. Testimony resumed…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (390+ words) By DAVE COLLINS and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM, Associated Press A mental health advocate suspected of killing her police officer husband was found dead Monday, six days after she disappeared from her Massachusetts home, authorities said. Karen Solomon, an advocate who called…...