Two northern New Jersey mayors and several rabbis were arrested on Thursday in a federal investigation into public corruption and international money laundering.ShotlistStory
As part of a two-year federal corruption and money-laundering investigation, two northern ...   more »

New 10-Question Survey Among Shortest Since First Census in 1790

WASHINGTON, July 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --The U.S. Census Bureau has begun printing 2010 Census questionnaires as the agency continues preparations for next year's count of the ...   more »

Author Frank McCourt, best known for his book and the film, 'Angela's Ashes', is gravely ill in a New York hospice.


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A Bronx tale of success: Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina woman to be nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court, is a source of pride and inspiration in the community where she was raised.

WASHINGTON, DC, ...   more »

Four workers at a historic African-American cemetery near Chicago are charged with digging up graves and reselling the plots.

Shocked and angry, relatives at this Chicago graveyard have been asked to identify their loves ones ...   more »

Since Alaska Governor Sarah Palin announced she was quitting, analysts have speculated about the reason she was leaving office-- just 2.5 years into her first term.


Less than nine months ago she was running to ...   more »

BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Several of the nation’s leading gun rights activists, including the heads of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms and Second Amendment Foundation, today joined to oppose the confirmation ...   more »