ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska senator says the U.S. Postal Service is resuming a program allowing volunteers to respond to letters sent to Santa Claus in care of the North Pole,...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Community colleges have joined Missouri's four-year colleges and universities in agreeing to freeze tuition next school year if state officials promise to nick...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A key U.N. committee approved a resolution Friday urging Iran to halt the persecution of political opponents following the country's disputed presidential election...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Pennsylvania university's requirement that overweight undergraduates take a fitness course to receive their degrees has raised the hackles of students and the...

MONACO (AP) — The governing body of track and field is working behind the scenes with Caster Semenya and the South African government to resolve issues about the 18-year-old...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Federal immigration officials are cracking down on Vermont dairy farmers as part of a national effort, asking them to provide records to prove their workers are...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — As protests resounded outside, the University of California Board of Regents approved a fee 32 percent fee increase for students attending the...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — As the nation's military academies try to recruit more minorities, they aren't getting much help from members of Congress from...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky's flagship public university gave the official heave-ho to tobacco on Thursday, touting the health benefits of a smoke-free policy covering all of its...

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 150 Christian leaders, most of them conservative evangelicals and traditionalist Roman Catholics, issued a joint declaration Friday reaffirming their opposition...

BEIJING (AP) — Sometime into his long detention by China's feared state security agents, American geologist Xue Feng had something to show U.S. consular officials on their monthly...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A key U.N. committee expressed "very serious concern" Thursday at widespread reports of torture and other grave human rights violations in North Korea and strongly...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Intrepid Ohio State University researchers have learned students don't just party in a campus lake during rituals before the annual Michigan game. They also potty...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey man who's been battling in Brazilian courts to get custody of his 9-year-old son is scheduled to testify before a congressional human rights panel in...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A group of volunteer Santa Claus "elves" in Alaska's frigid interior is determined to save a popular holiday letter service featuring the North...

Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:

Nov. 15

San Antonio Express-News, on the swine flu vaccine:

Health and Human Services...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Court records show James Van Der Beek has filed for divorce from his wife of nearly six years.

The former "Dawson's Creek" star filed for divorce Friday...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — James Caan is seeking a divorce from his wife of 14 years.

Court records in Los Angeles show "The Godfather" actor filed for divorce Friday. It's the...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California's public university system on Thursday agreed to fully reopen a troubled South Los Angeles hospital that was partially closed in 2007 after deadly lapses in...

GENEVA (AP) — Four years after cartoons of the prophet Muhammad set off violent protests across the Muslim world, Islamic nations are mounting a campaign for an international...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Gov. Haley Barbour's plan to merge Mississippi's three historically black universities has created a tense atmosphere in a state saddled with a violent civil...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine author Phillip Hoose said winning a National Book Award for his chronicle of a young civil rights pioneer was all the more moving because she...