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Despite setbacks and public cynicism, the puzzle that is the new World Trade Center complex is being pieced together — rapidly.

Mobile robots have been used for years by the military and law enforcement, but with falling costs, the next frontiers are the office, the hospital and the home.

The party is poised to redirect money from vulnerable incumbents to concentrate on protecting lawmakers who appear to be in the strongest position to fend off their challengers.

Novak Djokovic eliminated the crowd favorite James Blake in straight sets at a blustery Arthur Ashe Stadium.

At the New York Fashion Week that begins on Thursday, many promising new designers are of Asian descent, an important demographic shift on Seventh Avenue.

Corey Pavin, at the Deutsche Bank Championship, says he is trying to encourage without raising expectations as he talks to players.

Armed with a map, compass, hiking boots and a blue Honda, a hiker tackles the highest point in each New England state.

The Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools project in Los Angeles, at the site where he was assassinated, has become a new chapter in a long battle.

The proposal for a tax credit for business research expenses will be part of a pre-election initiative to spur job creation.

Police and fire departments in some parts of the country have begun billing accident victims to offset budget cuts.

Craigslist, the classifieds Web site, has blocked access to its “adult services” section and replaced the link with a black label with the word “censored.”

The talks could cement the legacy of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as a diplomat, or pose risks to any political ambitions she may harbor.

Four years ago, as D.C. voters went to the polls to choose a new mayor, the city was luxuriating in prosperity: Construction cranes were ubiquitous on the skyline; the murder toll was at a 23-year low; a new baseball stadium was rising along the the Anacostia waterfront.


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U.S. officals see Sharif Mobley, a U.S. citizen about to go on trial in Yemen for killing a prison guard, as one of a growing cadre of native-born Americans who are drawn to violent jihad. Mobley's defenders acknowledge that he associated in Yemen with individuals hostile to the United States but sa


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Across the Washington region and around the country, the expectations of buyers and sellers are out of whack, thwarting deals that could potentially lift the U.S. housing sector from its long funk.


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Danielle Pleasant knows this is her last shot. Her five children have been in and out of foster care for more than a decade, as Pleasant struggled to overcome addiction, mental illness, HIV and her own parental shortcomings. Now years removed from the days when she was abusing "everything," when...



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Air fares have marched steadily upward in recent months and are now close to pre-recession levels — and that’s not even counting all the new fees that airlines have introduced lately.

J. Craig Venter wants to create creatures — bacteria, algae or even plants — to carry out industrial tasks and displace fossil fuels.