A historical, interactive analysis of U.S. foreign aid over the last fifty years. Created using Tableau Public.     

GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) - London Olympic organizers mistakenly displayed the South Korean flag on a jumbo screen instead of North Korea's before a women's soccer match Wednesday, prompting the North Koreans...

(AP) - Louisiana improved in an annual national ranking of child well-being from No. 49 to No. 47, according to the report released Wednesday by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, a private charitable organization....

 LONDON (AP) - Cable car passengers got plenty of time to view London's sights after the system linking two Olympic venues broke down and left them stranded above the River Thames. The cable car system,...

ABERDEEN, Md. (AP) - Cal Ripken Jr.'s 74-year-old mother was found with her hands bound and blindfolded in the back seat of her car Wednesday after being kidnapped at gunpoint at her home outside Baltimore...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The wife of a former police officer who helped cover up deadly shootings on a New Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katrina has been sentenced to four years of probation for submitting...

CENTRALIA, Wash. (AP) - Police are investigating how a 13-year-old Washington state boy got a tattoo. The Centralia boy's mother and police tell KING-TV the 6-inch dragon tattoo was inked while the boy...

LONDON (AP) - Ronald Weasley certainly recognizes a goblet of fire. Rupert Grint - who played Ron in the famous Harry Potter films - lent a touch of Hogwarts magic to the Olympic torch relay Wednesday...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The Louisiana Supreme Court is giving its justices an extra month to weigh in on a debate over naming the court's next chief justice. Chief Justice Catherine "Kitty" Kimball had set...

(AP) - Some private schools who participate in Louisiana's statewide voucher program will face performance scores similar to public schools, under planned accountability standards. The scoring and penalties...

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) - If a group of Ukrainian lawmakers succeeds in its mission, TV shows and movies sympathetically portraying homosexuals, like "Brokeback Mountain," will be banned. So will gay pride...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The Louisiana Supreme Court is giving its justices an extra month to weigh in on a debate over naming the court's next chief justice. Chief Justice Catherine "Kitty" Kimball had set...