MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico now has one of the world's most liberal laws for drug users after eliminating jail time for small amounts of marijuana, cocaine and even heroin, LSD and methamphetamine....
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Shelia Phillips doesn't see the New Orleans that Mayor Ray Nagin talks about, the one on its way to having just as many people and a more diverse economy than it did before Hurricane...
KABUL (AP) — A roadside bomb and gunfire attack killed a U.S. service member in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, a death that pushed August into a tie with July as the deadliest month of the eight-year...
BOSTON (AP) — For the first time in nearly half a century, Massachusetts voters will be handed ballots for the U.S. Senate seat held by Sen. Edward Kennedy without his name on them. The long list...
(AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal plans to sit down with shrimpers on Thursday to discuss what they say are unnaturally low prices for their product. Hundreds of shrimpers protested on the state Capitol steps...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An appeals court ruled Wednesday that federal agents were wrong to seize the infamous drug list and samples of 104 Major League Baseball players who allegedly tested positive...
(AP) — Three retired judges will look through cases of teenagers at a north Louisiana youth prison where violence has escalated to determine if some of the juvenile offenders could safely be moved...
BERLIN (AP) — Sketched on yellowing parchment, the 29 blueprints presented to Israel's prime minister Thursday lay out the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz in chilling detail, with gas chambers, crematoria,...
BOSTON (AP) — Sen. Edward M. Kennedy began his final journey Thursday, first past landmark after landmark bearing his family's famous name and then to his slain brother's presidential library where...
BAGHDAD (AP) — Special forces have recovered a stolen Picasso and arrested a man planning to sell the painting during a raid of his house in southern Iraq, Iraqi police said Wednesday. The painting,...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Democratic Rep. Charlie Melancon, a self-styled centrist "Blue Dog" Democrat, said Thursday that he will run for Senate next year against incumbent David Vitter, the conservative...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Further evidence the recession is ending came in a report Thursday confirming that the economy shrank at an annual rate of just 1 percent in the spring. Many analysts say growth...
