Students occupied campus buildings at Berkeley and Santa Cruz on Friday, the day after a 32 percent increase in tuition was approved by the University of California Board of Regents.

A crude word is in the title of “Spic Up, Speak Out,” a poetry series that opens at El Museo del Barrio in East Harlem, on Saturday.

When an Atlanta hospital closed its dialysis unit, many illegal immigrants had to scramble to find treatment.

A report released by Republicans in Congress said that a school chancellor in Washington intervened on behalf of her fiancé, who was under investigation by AmeriCorps.

A committee found that Senator Roland W. Burris had been less than candid in statements on his dealings with associates of the Illinois governor, who was later forced from office.

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates’s statement echoed Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s recent warning to President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan.

The Justice Department intends to drop manslaughter and weapons charges against a security guard from the company formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide who was involved in deadly Baghdad shootings.

The Department of Defense has identified 4,355 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war and 909 who have died as a part of the Afghan war and related operations. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans this week:.

An Army psychiatrist charged in the mass shooting at Fort Hood will have a hearing on Saturday in his hospital room in San Antonio on whether he should be jailed before trail.

Michael Jackson’s doctor bought a powerful anesthetic and had it shipped to California, where it was found at Mr. Jackson’s bedside after he died, court documents show.

A federal judge in Miami sentenced Narseal Batiste, the ringleader of a plot to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago, to 13 ½ years in prison.

Two former judges accused of taking kickbacks to supply juveniles to private detention facilities have been granted partial immunity from civil liability.

The state has filed a federal lawsuit to block the National Park Service from restricting snowmobile numbers in Yellowstone National Park.

The retired State Department worker and his wife, both in their 70s, were caught in an undercover F.B.I. sting operation, arrested in June and held without bail.

A case will go forward involving a family’s fight to affix a small box containing Hebrew religious texts, known as a mezuzah, to the doorposts of their condominium units.

Evidence of Asian carp, a fish that some fear could destroy the ecosystem of Lake Michigan, has been found beyond a barrier intended to keep the fish out.

The official responsible for the problem-plagued disability compensation system at the Department of Veterans Affairs will resign early next year, the department announced Friday.

Federal authorities said that they had struck a blow against a major Mexican drug trafficking group operating significant cocaine distribution networks in Chicago.

Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska, one of three wavering Democrats, said Friday that he would vote to start debate on a giant health care bill.

Collected columns denouncing the Bush wars and tax cuts and recounting the fits of nerves that President Obama coolly overcomes.