U.S. intelligence agencies were still collecting data Monday after North Korea's announcement that it had carried out a nuclear test, but analysts expressed little doubt that the regime had exploded such a device. ...more

May 26, 2009

A former hedge fund manager accused of swindling investors of nearly $200 million will remain held in federal custody. ...more

April 10, 2009

North Korea's plans to launch a rocket as early as this week in defiance of warnings threatens to undo years of fitful negotiations toward dismantling the regime's nuclear program. ...more

March 30, 2009

Kim Yu-na practically sprinted through the short program and away from a strong field Friday at the World Figure Skating Championships. ...more

March 28, 2009

South African Retief Goosen fired a 1-under-par 70 to win the Transitions Championship Sunday at Innisbrook Resort at Palm Harbor. ...more

March 22, 2009

North Korea said Friday it has reopened a military hot line with the South ahead of the North's widely expected missile launch early next month. ...more

March 21, 2009

Pedro Martinez has caught the attention of Los Angeles Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti. ...more

March 13, 2009

GENEVA - Six in ten people around the world now have cell phone subscriptions, signaling that mobile phones are the communications technology of choice, particularly in poor countries, according to a U.N. report published Monday. ...more

March 2, 2009

In 1960, when Russia's Khrushchev observed John Kennedy's cowardly abandonment of America's promise to provide air cover for the Cuban exile invader force at Bay of Pigs, he perceived Kennedy as spineless and began moving Russian missiles into Cuba. We were brought to the brink of nuclear war. ...more

February 6, 2009

After enduring the intensity of last summer's Olympic soccer tournament in China, no one could expect the U.S. women's national team to be playing with much intensity three months later, particularly in an exhibition match. ...more

November 9, 2008