President Obama said the two nations risked further isolation if they did not rein in their nuclear ambitions.

Senator Harry Reid put forward his version of the health care overhaul, promising it would reduce the deficit while covering most of the uninsured.

President Obama discovered that popularity did not necessarily translate into policy successes in Asia.

The University of California system moved to raise student fees by $2,500 over two years as students demonstrated against the higher costs.

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was among the suspects in several recent terrorism cases who shared a devotion to Anwar al-Awlaki.

The White House emphasized that new breast cancer screening standards were not binding on either physicians or insurers.

The company formerly called Blackwater Worldwide is facing large fines for unlicensed arms shipments to Iraq.

Mr. Cotton was a labor lawyer whose negotiating savvy helped improve the wages and conditions of tens of thousands of meatpacking workers.

Colonel Millett was an Army veteran of three wars who received the Medal of Honor for leading a rare bayonet charge up a hill in Korea.

Thomas Donohue, the United States Chamber of Commerce’s president, expressed hostility toward climate legislation, which led several businesses to resign in protest.

At bank after bank, the coroners of the financial crisis are discovering that regulators knew lenders were engaging in hazardous practices but failed to act.

A program intended to help disabled veterans win government business awarded at least $100 million in contracts to firms that were either ineligible or committed fraud to obtain the work, a federal review has found.

Unite Here organizers are speaking out against what they say is a longstanding practice in which officials pressured subordinates to disclose personal information.

Two Miami men cast as role players in a plot to destroy the Sears Tower in Chicago and bomb F.B.I. offices have been sentenced in Federal District Court to prison.

An Arizona prosecutor says his office has filed the first civil complaint against a business under a 22-month-old state law that prohibits employers from knowingly hiring illegal immigrants.

A man who killed six people in a northwest Washington shooting rampage last year pleaded guilty and is to spend the rest of his life in a mental hospital or prison.

For the first time since fall began, new cases of flu among college students have started to drop, the American College Health Association reported.

First the reviled Yankees won the World Series; now Shake Shack, the New York burger stand, might stake a claim in one of Boston’s most sacred spaces.

A report found that universities often do not disclose faculty members’ conflicts of interest in government-financed studies.

About one million laid-off workers will see their benefits end in January unless federally paid extensions are renewed.