What was supposed to be a week of celebration with the Grammy Awards quickly turned to one of mourning with the death of Whitney Houston. The 48-year-old singer was found dead in the bathtub of her Beverly Hill Hotel room on February 11th. The cause of death is currently undetermined …

Residents in Virginia’s Fairfax County should watch for homemade chemical bombs placed in residential mailboxes or on front lawns, authorities say. Anthony Barrero, battalion chief of the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department’s Fire and Hazardous Material Investigative Services unit, said 11 such crude devices have been found in Reston, …

Syria’s continued and ruthless crackdown on a popular uprising inspired by the Arab Spring continues to attract worldwide attention. The Assad regime’s related government concessions including a cabinet shake-up, sacking of a governor and police chief, and Thursday’s formal lifting of the emergency law in place since 1963 has been …

Is it animal, vegetable or mineral — or something else entirely? The collective brainpower of several dozen scientists was unable to unravel the mystery of a strange beast nearly half a billion years old, tentatively nicknamed “Godzillus.” Ron Fine, an amateur paleontologist from Dayton, Ohio, hoped the supersmart group of …

Trying to create a presidential persona and a rationale for running, Hillary Clinton relaunched her campaign at a memorial to FDR. She used the glorious setting of Four Freedoms Park to summon Roosevelt’s legacy and frame her theme as “Four Fights.” She also invoked her husband and President Obama, as …

General McChrystal’s report on the Afghan War should be required reading for us all. It’s written in plain English and is brutally realistic in its assessment of the current situation. It makes clear that if we continue on the path we’re on, even with the additional 21,000 troops President Obama …

Senator McCain and White House Press Secretary Jay Carney traded insults this week over intelligence leaks – McCain called the Obama White House “grossly irresponsible” to leak classified information for political gain, while Carney called McCain “grossly irresponsible” for even suggesting it. I’ve been in three presidential administrations, and frankly, …

Thursday saw yet another tragic attack in a gun-free zone. Four Marines were murdered. Others were injured. Watching the coverage on television Thursday, it was hard to ignore the gun-free zone sign on the front door of the recruiting station. It was surrounded by bullet holes. Army regulations are very …

PORTLAND, Ore. – For more than a decade, the federal government spent $700 million on habitat improvements in the Columbia River Basin. Experts say it’s likely the largest, most intensive, and most expensive habitat restoration program in the nation. It’s the centerpiece in a federal management plan to relieve the …

UNITED NATIONS – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed an independent panel Monday to review the United Nations’ handling of allegations of child sexual abuse by French soldiers in Central African Republic. Confidential documents have shown that the U.N.’s top human rights officials did not follow up for more than half a …