At 8 a.m. Sunday the population of Kinsman, Ill., stood at 109. An hour later it nearly doubled, as upwards of 100 federal agents and police swooped in on the tiny, rural community. And no one seems to know why. The law enforcement officers, including FBI agents, immigration officials and …

The president who is sitting in the Oval Office right now promised to bring us “hope” and “change.” Barack Obama is keeping at least one of those promises: change. But it’s not the kind of change millions of you voted for. This nation is being fundamentally transformed; the president promised …

Friends and family of an Army reservist killed last week in Afghanistan gathered Tuesday morning in a small town in Connecticut to remember the extraordinary efforts of a man who transcended his duty as a soldier to provide a bare necessity of life to people living half a world away. …

If your strategy for not getting sick or hurt on your next trip involves staying away from any enclosed social environments, there’s definitely one you should add to your list. It’s called civilization. Of course, you can’t usually avoid that one. Even if you could, there are no guarantees that …

No American president in memory has ever had a more ambitious agenda with less money to pay for it than Barack Obama. What we are seeing today in his willingness to consider breaking his campaign promise on raising taxes will be just a start. His administration will almost certainly be …

Symbols of communism and marijuana and a prediction that “capitalism will fail” aren’t exactly the sort of end-of-year messages you’d expect from an eighth grader. But that’s precisely what some students at the Black Pine Circle School, a private school in Berkeley, Calif., chose to include in their “Class of …

Astronauts on the International Space Station welcomed the arrival of a brand-new Russian module Thursday, an orbital room adds more research space and an extra parking spot for visiting spacecraft. The unmanned module Poisk, which means “explore” in Russian, docked smoothly at a berth on top of the space station …

One of the nation’s largest public school systems is preparing to include gender identity to its classroom curriculum, including lessons on sexual fluidity and spectrum – the idea that there’s no such thing as 100 percent boys or 100 percent girls. Fairfax County Public Schools released a report recommending changes …

Case: Ashcroft v. Iqbal Date: Wednesday Dec. 10, 2008 Issue: Whether allegations that a Cabinet-level officer knew of, condoned or agreed to subject an individual to allegedly unconstitutional acts purportedly committed by subordinate officials is sufficient to file a lawsuit. And can that Cabinet officer (Ashcroft/Mueller) be held personally liable …

NEW YORK – Rodents aren’t usually called pretty, but at least one group finds them beautiful — and even holds shows to honor the fairest of them all. Last month, City Slicker won best-in-show for his lovely bluish, shiny coat, his fetching tail and ears, his well-shaped body and his …