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They were chained by their necks as punishment -- sometimes to a tree or post -- other times to each other.

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To people around the world who have seen the video, Esmin Green is a symbol of a health-care system that seems to have failed horribly.

After nearly three years of excavation, archaeologists have confirmed the discovery of the site of George Washington's boyhood home near the banks of the Rappahannock River in northeast Virginia.

Former Sen. Jesse Helms, who built a career along the fault lines of racial politics and battled liberals, Communists and the occasional fellow Republican during 30 years in Congress, died Friday. He...

John McCain has struggled to solidify lines of attack against Mr. Obama, Republican operatives say and some of his own advisers acknowledge.

It could turn out to be one of the significant comments of the 2008 campaign — and due to the July 4 weekend, it isn’t getting much notice. The nation’s highest ranking military officer warned W...

Four people were shot dead early Friday outside a house party in Milwaukee, police said.

Roger Federer defeated Marat Safin to advance to the Wimbledon men's final and will face Rafael Nadal.

Hired during an expansion in higher education, baby boomers are being replaced by a new generation.

One of the most remarkable of this year’s new college graduates, Beatrice Biira, credits her success to something utterly improbable: a goat.

Picnic foods need not be boring. With a little shopping, a little effort, and 20 minutes or less for assembly, you can easily vary the menu a bit.

No matter how much you train in the heat, it will never be easy, athletes and researchers say.

Bush administration officials knew that an oil company with close ties to President Bush planned to sign an oil deal with the Kurdistan government, counter to U.S. policy.

MSNBC - Found 2 hours agoPARIS - Betancourt said she 'cried a lot during this time from pain and indignation,' she said, today 'I cry with joy.' 'It's a very, very moving ...

New York Times - Found 3 hours agoThe word privacy now appears on Googles home page, with a link to the companys privacy policy. With that one word, the Web search giant heads off the ...

Washington Post - Found 13 hours agoBOGOTA, Colombia, July 3 -- On their first full day of freedom, the hostages rescued from guerrilla captivity in Colombia were reunited with ...

Washington Post - Found 8 hours ago___ Obama focuses on turning red states blue COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) _ It will be a red-state Fourth of July for Barack Obama, who hopes to find ...

CNN - Found 1 hour agoObama a flip-flopper after the Democratic candidate held a do-over news conference to clarify his remarks on the Iraq war. Obama on Thursday denied ...

Mark Jordan Legan sums up what the critics are saying about some of the big holiday weekend movies: Hancock, Wall-E, and The Wackness.

Listen to the Gabfest for July 4 by clicking the arrow on the audio player below:[more ...]...

No discussion of how men and women think can avoid a mention of Harvard's ex-president Larry Summers. When he speculated in 2005 that intrinsic cognitive differences might partly account for women's u...

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Due to an editing error, the June 30 "Books" piece neglected to mention that a longer version of the essay appears as the introduction to a reissue of Names on the Land by New York Review Books C...

There was a man in our village who never in his life had a pet of any kind until his wife died. By my calculation, Gerard Loomis was in his mid-fifties when Marietta was taken from him, but at the cer...

OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS Please call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information. ANIMALS OUT OF PAPER Second Stag...

Jørgen Tranberg is a farmer who lives on the Danish island of Samsø. He is a beefy man with a mop of brown hair and an unpredictable sense of humor. When I arrived at his house, one gray mor...

Dubus’s follow-up to “House of Sand and Fog” is inspired by the rumored visit of 9/11 hijackers to a strip club shortly before their attacks. In the fictional Puma Club, in Sarasota,...

If you had stumbled into Banjo Jim’s, in the East Village, on a recent Wednesday night and encountered a sixty-something guy leading a band through a fervent rendition of “Wild Thing,̶...

The former senator, dead at 86, was a voice of conservative dissent, but his campaigning skills were formidable...

The two parties have starkly contrasting views of what it means to love your country. Can they be reconciled?

The swift dismissals of two local officials and extensive coverage of protests in the remote town of Weng'an may signal a more open attitude as the Olympics Games draw near...

Colombia's rebel movement may have suffered several blows, but don't tell that to Comandante Alberto and his bitter-enders...

A new study shows the beverage can protect the heart arteries by keeping them flexible and relaxed...

Shivani Dogra was overwhelmed by the squalor, stench and crowds of Mumbai when she first moved to the Indian city for work in 2003. But she eventually came to appreciate the vibrancy, and the possibil...

A court has ordered Google to turn over a database that links users to every video they've watched on the popular Web site YouTube. Jennifer Urban, director of the University of Southern California In...

Jesse Helms' 30-year career in the U.S. Senate was marked by controversy and racial politics. The fierce advocate for segregation and a king maker in North Carolina politics died Friday at the age of...

An influx of investment and new residents has brought great prosperity to the Indian metropolis of Mumbai, home to the Bollywood movie industry. However, with the emergence of "New" Mumbai, wealth dis...

An icon of the conservative movement, former Republican Sen. Jesse Helms represented North Carolina in Congress for 30 consecutive years. He died Friday at the age of 86.

It's Staff Sgt. Edgar Covarrubias' second Fourth of July in Iraq. No family barbecue, no fireworks, but Covarrubias says he'll ...

President Bush has invoked the memory of Thomas Jefferson in welcoming new U.S. citizens at a naturalization ceremony at Thomas ...

Ingrid Betancourt, freed from captivity and humiliation in the jungles of Colombia, returns to her beloved France and a hero's ...

Former Sen. Jesse Helms, who served 30 years in Congress, has died, the Jesse Helms research center says. He was 86.

North Korea received centrifuges from Pakistan in a 2000 shipment supervised by the army during the rule of President Pervez ...

Former Sen. Jesse Helms, who built a career along the fault lines of racial politics and battled liberals, Communists and the occasional fellow Republican during 30 conservative years in Congress, die...

Joey Chestnut has reclaimed the top spot as winner of the annual hot dog eating contest in Coney Island after first tying with archrival Takeru Kobayashi in a 10-minute chow-down and then beating him...

NAME _ Jesse Alexander Helms. AGE _ Born Oct.18, 1921 in Monroe, N.C. EDUCATION _ Monroe public schools; Wingate Junior College and Wake Forest College. FAMILY _ Wife, Dorothy Coble Helms; children Ja...

Some quotes of Jesse Helms, who died on the Fourth of July at age 86: "I'm so old-fashioned I believe in horse whipping." _ During a debate in 1991 on an AIDS-related amendment. "Well, there is no joy...

Bettina Schardt knew that the combination of drugs she drank in the living room of her home in Wuerzburg last week would kill her, and she died alone. But this was no ordinary suicide. A German doctor...

Administration's plan to close prison may include asking Congress to draft procedures for scores of suspected terrorists who are unlikely to face trial.

Retired, five-term Republican senator from North Carolina was nicknamed "Senator No" for his opposition to social change.

Thousands of Fourth of July revelers are celebrating at local parades, concerts, festivals.

A left-handed life may instill some necessary qualities of a leader, social scientists say.

Government workers snooped in records of athletes, entertainers, high-profile Americans.

Former Republican Sen. Jesse Helms, a leading conservative from North Carolina who served five terms in the Senate before retiring in 2003, has died, the Jesse Helms Center said Friday. He was 86.

The search for proof of the existence of UFOs landed Gary McKinnon in a world of trouble.

Can you guess what is shown in this photo? What is the plume extending upward from the ground? Why is the top of the plume brighter than its bottom? What is the bright object in the lower righthand co...

President Bush invoked the memory of Thomas Jefferson Friday in welcoming new U.S. citizens at a naturalization ceremony, saying "I'll be proud to call you a fellow American."...

Put "9/11 conspiracy" into Google and you get 7.9 million hits. Put in "9/11 truth" and you get more than 22 million.

French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt expresses her thanks as she lands in France, days after her release from captivity.

French bank Societe Generale is fined 4m euros for allowing one of its staff to operate as a rogue trader.

The smallest planet in the Solar System has become even smaller, studies by the Messenger spacecraft show.

Disgraced scientist AQ Khan says Pakistan flew nuclear material to North Korea with the knowledge of the army.

The Israeli defence minister orders the army to prepare to demolish the home of the Palestinian who killed three Israelis.

(Reuters) - A gas station worker fills a car's tank with ethanol in Rio de Janeiro April 30, 2008. (Sergio Moraes/Reuters)...

(Reuters) - People wave an European Union flag in front of the Palace of Culture during a EU parade in Warsaw, May 15, 2005. (Katarina Stoltz/Reuters)...

(AFP/File) - This NASA handout image, received on June 13, 2008 shows trenches dug by the Robotic Arm on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander after it delivered the first sample of dug-up soil to the spacec...

(AFP/File) - This NASA handout image, released on June 13, 2008 shows the Robotic Arm on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander with a sample of martian soil as it prepares to move to the spacecraft's mic...

(Reuters) - A Merrill Lynch sign is seen in Toronto, April 29, 2008. (Mark Blinch/Reuters)...

July 2: An Ohio mechanic says he's perfected an engine, created by his grandfather, that gets 110 miles per gallon of gas, and could be tweaked to get up to 500 miles per gallon. WNWO's Aaron Brilbeck...

July 2: A Georgia teen is in jail after a disturbing video is posted online showing a baby being placed on an inflatable pillow and being launched through the air. WALB's Jennifer Emert reports. (NBC...

The so-called pregnant man has given birth to a baby girl. People magazine senior editor Patrick Rogers shares exclusive information on the delivery.

June 30: Walmart's bulk discount chain is pushing its redesigned square gallon milk carton, but customers aren't yet buying in. NBC's Brian Williams reports. (Nightly News)...

City workers in Commerce City are preparing for the July 4 fireworks show at Dicks Sporting Goods Park.

Katie Hafner's A Romance on Three Legs: Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano is published by Bloomsbury. This book is really the story of two eccentrics. The first is Gou...

Rises in food prices and global population, especially among the middle classes in India and China, have brought renewed respect to the philosopher of demographic catastrophe, Thomas Robert Malthus.

D.C. vs. Heller, the most sweeping gun rights decision in decades, promises to change this year's political landscape. Like a lot of liberals, I'm used to cringing when the Supreme Cour...

On his radio show, Focus on the Family founder James Dobson accused Barack Obama of "deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible" and promoting a "lowest common denominator of m...

Florida offered to buy U.S. Sugar Corp. for $1.7 billion and restore 187,000 acres to the Everglades. Environmentalists are swooning over the agreement, which could restart the natural...

WASHINGTON (July 4) -- Former U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms, a North Carolina Republican who became an icon to conservatives, died Friday at the age of 86, a senior congressional source said.

Authorities ordered the remaining residents of this scenic coastal community to leave Wednesday because an out-of-control wildfire, one of hundreds in California, had jumped a fire line and was threat...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Arlan Ettinger will never forget the response he got when he took one of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks' hats to a meeting at the Apollo Theater in New York.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) - President Bush invoked the memory of Thomas Jefferson Friday in welcoming new U.S. citizens at a naturalization ceremony at Monticello, saying ``I'll be proud to call you a...

Former Sen. Jesse Helms, who built a career along the fault lines of racial politics and battled liberals, Communists and the occasional fellow Republican during 30 conservative years in Congress, die...

Iran's state radio is reporting that the country will respond Friday to an international proposal on its nuclear program.

A homemade bomb exploded at an outdoor concert in the capital of Belarus early Friday and wounded at least 50 people, government officials said, blaming hooligans.

Thousands of Zimbabweans have greeted President Robert Mugabe on his return from the African Union summit where he defended his controversial re-election. The supporters were ferried in buses to Harar...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- President Bush invoked the memory of Thomas Jefferson Friday in welcoming new U.S. citizens at a naturalization ceremony at Monticello, saying "I'll be proud to call you a fell...

With two currently functioning orbiters, and five more missions planned in the next year, Earth's Moon may soon have seven active probes operated by five nations, with even more coming soon. NASA's pl...

Two world records were set yesterday in the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials in Omaha, Nebraska. Michael Phelps broke his own world record in the men's 400-meter individual medley with a time of 4:05.25,...

Last month, during two weeks in May, 2008, a series of attacks took place all over South Africa. In a clash between the poorest of the poor, gangs of local black South Africans descended on informal s...

Indiana University recently hosted the 2008 USA Diving Olympic Team Trials, and the process of selecting the diving team to represent the United States is underway. (10 photos total)Troy Dumais twist...

Recent crop failures, drought conditions and the current high price of food have plunged Ethiopia into another food crisis, reminiscent of the famines of 1984-85 which killed over 1 million. People ha...