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...

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...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Santa's "elves" at the North Pole have been given their walking papers — but they're not going quietly.

The volunteer "elves" are trying...

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...

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 314,000 taxpayers made inaccurate claims for a popular tax credit that helps pay college expenses, getting $532 million they weren't entitled to receive, a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Thursday confirmed U.S. District Judge David Hamilton for the Chicago-based federal appeals court, approving a nominee targeted by conservatives as a...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Economic reality may be cooling the enthusiasm of U.S. college students to study abroad.

A survey in September by The Forum on Education Abroad has found...