Coffee-table books make wonderful last-minute Christmas gifts - for someone else or as a gift to yourself. They focus on every possible subject, from Ansel Adams' breathtaking black-and-white photos of Yosemite National Park to the beauty of seashells. ...more

December 16, 2007

The Bush administration intends to slash counterterrorism funding for police, firefighters and rescue departments across the country by more than half next year, according to budget documents obtained by The Associated Press. ...more

December 1, 2007

In an age of al-Qaida, sleeper cells and the threat of nuclear terrorism, Huntsville is dusting off its Cold War manual to create the nation's most ambitious fallout-shelter plan, featuring an abandoned mine big enough for 20,000 people to take cover underground. ...more

September 30, 2007