The White House says President Barack Obama doesn't believe he's being criticized because of his race. Spokesman Robert Gibbs said Wednesday that Obama — the nation's first black president — doesn't think that criticism of his policies is "based on the color of his skin." ...more

September 16, 2009

Gov. Bill Richardson signed legislation Wednesday repealing New Mexico's death penalty, making it the second state to ban executions since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. ...more

March 18, 2009

Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's 84-year-old president, clinging to power after 28 years in office, barred another famous 84-year-old - former President Jimmy Carter - from entering the country Saturday. ...more

November 23, 2008

A federal appeals court gave a last-minute reprieve Friday to a Georgia man set to be executed for the 1989 killing of an off-duty police officer even though several witnesses have changed their accounts of the crime. ...more

October 25, 2008

Huddled around tables in a private Georgetown garden, we waited for the main event, the reason that we had given up our evening: the promise of a bipartisan discussion on the major foreign-policy issues facing the United States. ...more

September 23, 2008

This week won't mark the end of a disastrous dictatorship in Cuba because reigns of terror don't end quietly, with the dictator easing into retirement with a few dull words of farewell and a yawn from the public. ...more

February 20, 2008

Protesting farmworkers picketed Burger King headquarters in Miami last week, trying to shame the fast-food giant into joining two competitors that have agreed to pay field hands an extra penny per pound for the tomatoes the companies buy to garnish their food. ...more

December 8, 2007