A Louisiana justice of the peace who refused to marry a couple because the bride was white and groom was black has resigned. ...more

November 3, 2009

Bill Clinton says he has no thoughts about returning to public office. ...more

September 27, 2009

Authorities say the troubled Indiana money manager who tried to fake his own death in a plane crash to avoid financial ruin bilked about $1 million from friends and relatives as part of an investment scheme that has led to 11 felony charges. ...more

August 23, 2009

Hurricane Bill weakened slightly early today but still threatened to flood Bermuda's coastlines and generate dangerous waves and riptides along the eastern U.S. coast. ...more

August 21, 2009

I have always been and still am amazed at the intelligence and command of the language of young Suzannah Beiner. However, I hope that she has learned a lesson in the column she wrote in the Aug. 5 edition of Highlands Today. She berated the media for not clamoring for more to be done to release Laura Ling and Euna Lee. She stated "What is Ban Ki Moon's proposal, what does Hilary Clinton think, when will Obama stop dancing around and ask for some real results?" ...more

August 10, 2009

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday gave an impassioned defense of American demands that India and other countries do more to tackle terrorism and global warming. ...more

July 19, 2009

For the second time this year, a top U.S. official visiting China has declined in advance to publicly discuss Beijing's human rights record, a shift in practice that comes almost exactly two decades after the Tiananmen Square massacre. ...more

May 24, 2009

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, a tenacious negotiator, loved to communicate her mood and intentions in a more subtle way — through her brooches. ...more

April 1, 2009

Former Gov. Bob Martinez of Tampa has been named a "Great Floridian" as part of a program that seeks to recognize people who have made major contributions to the state. ...more

March 20, 2009

A White House source says Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is President Barack Obama's choice for secretary of health and human services. ...more

February 28, 2009