Despite efforts to get drivers to stop texting and talking on the phone, police and paramedics use an array of dashboard devices, a boon for their jobs that also presents a clear risk.

Early election results on Thursday indicated that Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki?s coalition was likely to win a plurality in an exceedingly close race.

The ban, announced by House Democratic leaders, wipes out one of the most lucrative and controversial means of awarding no-bid contracts to private firms.

It has been hard for Basil A. Paterson, a Harlem political power, to watch his son become embroiled in scandal.

So much has been destroyed that it?s hard to feel even a tingle of fuzzy nostalgia for the house that Ruth built and the city is razing.

E-mails provide evidence of Senator John Ensign?s efforts to steer work to the husband of his former mistress.

This week dozens of herdsmen slaughtered hundreds of people in a brutal act of sectarian retribution in Jos.

It now appears possible to sequence a patient?s genome at reasonable cost and with sufficient accuracy to be useful.

For the second time in two weeks, a general strike closed public services, halting all flights and most transport across the debt-plagued country.

Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. called for no delay in resuming peace talks, after Palestinians said Israel must cancel a settlement project before negotiations can begin.

The British journalist, accused by Hamas of being a security threat, had been held for a month in Gaza.

With the opening rounds over, it?s time for the top seeds to play in the Big East tournament. The first matchup is a familiar one: Georgetown versus Syracuse.

The ex-husband of the woman who called herself ?JihadJane? said she ?was just like anyone else.?