Franklin Duran, 41, was convicted of conspiracy and failure to register as a Venezuelan agent. ...more

March 16, 2009

"Bamboo And Blood" by James Church (Thomas Dunne, $23.95) ...more

March 8, 2009

After years of professing their parents' innocence, the sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are acknowledging that their father was a spy. ...more

September 18, 2008

In 1951, Morton Sobell was tried and convicted with Julius and Ethel Rosenberg on espionage charges. He served more than 18 years in Alcatraz and other federal prisons, then traveled to Cuba and Vietnam after his release in 1969 and became an advocate for progressive causes. ...more

September 12, 2008

"Traitor" is the kind of movie so many of us yearn to see: It's intense and intelligent, has something to say without being pedantic and presents complicated issues without condescending. ...more

August 29, 2008

Anthony J. Russo, a researcher who helped leak the Vietnam-era Pentagon Papers to the media and prompted wider public questioning of the war, has died, police said. ...more

August 11, 2008

One thing about NASCAR: It always delivers the unexpected. Take Tony Stewart going off on Goodyear after a frustrating second-place finish at Atlanta in March. "That's the most pathetic tire I've been on in my racing career," he said on national television. "If they can't do any better than that, they should pull out of the sport and save us a bunch of headaches." ...more

July 9, 2008

Caught off guard by recent Iraqi military operations, the United States is using spy satellites that ordinarily are trained on adversaries to monitor the movements of the U.S.-backed Iraqi army, according to current and former U.S. officials. ...more

July 2, 2008

Attorneys for two convicted Cuban spies, one of whom is serving a life sentence, said Thursday that they are considering appealing the cases to the U.S. Supreme Court. ...more

June 6, 2008

The U.S. Supreme Court said Friday that it will decide whether a convicted child rapist can be put to death, thereby reconsidering a more than 40-year trend in the United States in which executions have been limited to murderers. ...more

January 5, 2008