SINGAPORE — Oil prices hovered below $99 a barrel Thursday in Asia as U.S. crude demand lags the overall improvement in the world's biggest economy. Benchmark crude for March delivery was up 11 cents at $98.82 a barrel at midday Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange....

VERACRUZ, Mexico — A suspected member of the Zetas drug cartel led Mexican authorities to mass graves at two ranches in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz where marines unearthed 15 bodies by Wednesday....

CAIRO — The military-appointed prime minister vowed Wednesday that Egypt would defy Washington’s pressure to halt criminal prosecutions of 19 Americans as investigating judges accused them of manipulating the Egyptian political process and improperly collecting information to send home to the United States. Amr Nabil/Associated Press Two investigating judges, Ashraf el-Ashmawi, left center, and Sameh Abu Zaid, right center, at a ...

(Reuters) - The University of North Dakota has resumed use of its "Fighting Sioux" nickname and Indian head logo after supporters filed petitions seeking a...

BEIRUT: The European Union will impose harsher sanctions on Syria, a senior EU official said Wednesday, as Russia tried to broker talks between the vice president and the opposition to calm violence. Activists reported at least 50 killed in the regime’s siege of the restive city of Homs. Russia, a close ally of Syria, and the West are pushing down starkly different paths in trying to deal with Syria’s nearly 11 months of bloodshe...

FRANCE Diplomacy urged for Iran President Nicolas Sarkozy put his reputation as a stalwart friend of Israel on the line Wednesday, warning at a dinner hosted by France’s main Jewish group that military action was no way to deal with nuclear-minded Iran. In the wake of new U.S. concerns that Israel might strike...

MOSCOW: Opening a scientific frontier miles under the Antarctic ice, Russian experts drilled down and finally reached the surface of a gigantic freshwater lake, an achievement the mission chief likened to placing a man on the moon. Lake Vostok could hold living organisms that have been locked in icy darkness for some 20 million years, as well as clues to the search for life elsewhere in the solar system. Touching the surface of the lake, the...

BEIRUT, LEBANON - The European Union will impose harsher sanctions on Syria, a senior E.U. official said Wednesday, as Russia tried to broker talks between the government and the opposition to calm violence. Activists reported more than 50 new deaths in the government's siege of the city of Homs. Russia, an ally of Syria, and the West are pushing down starkly different paths in trying to deal with Syria's nearly 11 months of bloodshed. After...

MOSCOW - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned Wednesday of a growing "cult of violence" around the world and expressed concern that upheavals in the Mideast could spread to his own country. In an apparent reference to Western governments, Putin said he was alarmed by what he deemed to be interference in the affairs of sovereign nations, especially Libya and Syria. "We, of course, condemn all violence, no matter its...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A report finds that a building that collapsed and killed 115 people during last year's New Zealand...

WASHINGTON - Seeking to stoke a political vulnerability for President Obama, Republican lawmakers moved Wednesday to amp up pressure on the White House over a new health-care rule that critics say violates religious liberty, vowing to press for legislation to repeal the provision unless the administration relents. The GOP efforts dovetailed with an ongoing campaign by Catholic bishops, who are leading the opposition to...

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In the aftermath of Rick Santorum's clean sweep of Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri, Mitt Romney is still, in fact, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination. But the lack of enthusiasm for his candidacy among conservatives foreshadows a potentially ugly road ahead to Tampa and general election problems if he is the nominee. There are all kinds of reasons Romney advisers can offer for his anemic showing Tuesday. Some of the...

HOWELL, MICH. - The 2010 Buick Enclave parked in her garage kept Michigan resident Renee Moore from getting food stamps for two months last year, even though her family's income had dropped to below the poverty level, her husband's vehicle had 300,000 miles...

AUGUSTA, MAINE - Mitt Romney and Ron Paul are the undisputed favorites in Maine, the next state to judge the candidates in the Republican presidential race. Local Republican Party committees...

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By WEI-ZHE TAN SINGAPORE—Asian stock markets were mostly lower on Thursday on news that Greece's debt restructuring talks ended without a conclusive deal, sending the euro and regional currencies lower against the U.S. dollar. Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos struggled to finalize an agreement with international creditors over the country's new bailout package, after party leaders agreed to many of the creditors' terms...

BEIJING (AP) — China's inflation rebounded in January as food prices soared, renewing pressure on the communist government to control surging living costs while it tries to boost slowing economic growth. Consumer prices rose 4.5 percent over a...

South Korea's parliamentary Speaker resigned on Thursday over a bribery scandal which has tarnished the conservative ruling party in a key election year. Park Hee-Tae was alleged to have offered cash envelopes to lawmakers of the Grand National Party before a vote to select a new party chief in 2008. He was elected to serve as party chief from 2008-2009 and became National Assembly speaker in 2010. In a brief resignation statement read by hi...

Reporting from Allentown, Pa.— Jerry Sandusky's lawyer said neighbors' fears were unfounded that the former Penn State football coach would pose a danger to schoolchildren if he was allowed to leave his house. In court papers filed Wednesday, attorney Joseph Amendola opposed a request by state prosecutors to keep Sandusky inside his State College, Pa., home, where he has been under house arrest awaiting trial on child sexual abuse char...

The company that built the stage that collapsed at the Indiana State Fair during a powerful storm last summer, killing seven people, has been cited for workplace safety violations along with the State Fair Commission and the union that worked at the site, officials said Wednesday. The Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration levied fines against all three entities for their roles in the Aug. 13 collapse, which occurred as the co...

Reporting from Washington— The Supreme Court has nine justices, but if the constitutional fight over same-sex marriage reaches them this year, the decision will probably come down to just one: a California Republican and Reagan-era conservative who has nonetheless written the court's two leading gay rights opinions. JusticeAnthony M. Kennedy, 75, often holds the court's deciding vote on the major issues that divide its liberals and c...

Reporting from Washington— The Obama administration's new requirement that most health insurance plans provide contraceptive services has exploded into a high-octane political weapon, with combatants on both sides scrambling to score points among the electorate and gin up fundraising from their most ardent supporters. In Congress and on the campaign trail Wednesday, Republicans attacked the rule as another example of government overrea...

The road to the Republican presidential nomination just got longer, steeper and less predictable. Mitt Romney is still the prohibitive front-runner as the race heads now to Arizona and Michigan. He alone has the financial and organizational wherewithal to stay in the race and fight in every contest through the last big day of balloting, on June 5. But by losing three out of three Tuesday contests to Rick Santorum — two of them in blowo...

ALEPPO, Syria — — In the apartment of an elderly Aleppo woman, the TV was tuned to the pro-government channel Al Dunya. Patriotic music played over images of a happy and prosperous Syria. On her balcony, a small Syrian flag waved in the night chill. "I told my cats that if they are with us then they can stay, but if they are against us I'll send them out into the streets," said the woman, a widow who is a staunch supporter of Pre...

Reporting from Beirut— A new round of fierce clashes and shelling was reported Wednesday in the battered Syrian city of Homs, while fresh recriminations flew aboutRussia'ssuddenly prominent role in the crisis. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin deplored what he called a growing "cult of violence" in international affairs, and emphasized that countries should have the opportunity to decide their own fates without interference from ...

Mumbaikars continued to enjoy this season's uncharacteristic cold spell on Wednesday, with the maximum and minimum temperatures dipping by 4°C and 2°C than normal, respectively. The Santa Cruz weather station reported a maximum...

Commerce minister Anand Sharma is in a hurry to put his mark on the India-Pakistan border, keen to inaugurate the still under construction integrated checkpost (ICP) coming up at Attari to...

Paris. Maldives’ ex-president Mohamed Nasheed, who told AFP on Wednesday that he was forced to resign, is “at risk,” according to climate change activists who have launched a global petition on his behalf. “Tell your national leaders: We are deeply concerned about the recent coup that forced (Nasheed) from office and is currently keeping him under house arrest,” 350.org said on its Web site, which provides a Web...

Singapore. Singapore Island Country Club (SICC), arguably the country’s most prestigious club, has sacked its general manager J. P. Schneider just two weeks before his two-year contract was due to end. The 52-year-old was also dismissed as its secretary, according to a notice issued by club president Tay Joo Soon to members on Tuesday. It added that Schneider had failed to produce his master’s degree in corporate management which he clai...

Chicago. A federal judge convicted a Chinese-born American on Wednesday of stealing trade secrets but acquitted her of more serious charges of corporate espionage at a trial in Chicago that highlighted fears about China pilfering information from US companies. Software developer Hanjuan Jin was accused of spiriting away around 1,000 confidential documents from the Motorola Inc. office where she worked before heading to a Chicago airport with...

Indonesian’s are buying the most expensive homes in Singapore, according to local data. Alan Cheong, director of research and consultancy at consultancy Savills Singapore, noted that although the Chinese were the top buyers, Indonesians had the largest budgets and dominated city-center deals. “About 79 percent of their total purchases were above $1 million, indicating that Indonesian buyers were relatively less active in purchasing smal...

CINCINNATI — An Ohio structure containing remnants of a two-story building where the Wright brothers rented space for their first bicycle shop has been declared a public nuisance and may eventually be demolished despite residents' efforts to preserve it. Orville and Wilbur Wright, who became famous for making the first airplane flight near Kitty Hawk, N.C., on Dec. 17, 1903, sold, built and repaired bicycles in their hometown of Dayton...

The United Nations and the League of Arab States are considering sending a joint observer mission to Syria in a renewed effort to stop violence in the Middle East country shaken by a political crisis, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said. Ban told reporters on Wednesday after a closed-door UN Security Council session that Nabil...

MIKE BAKER Associated Press= TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Emergency call logs show that nearly eight minutes elapsed between when a social worker called 911 to report that Josh Powell's children were in danger and when sheriff's deputies were dispatched, and it took another 14 minutes for a deputy to get to the home. The Associated Press obtained the logs Wednesday night under a public records request. Recently released audio tapes of the 911 calls ...

PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man was put to death Wednesday evening for killing two men in a December 1995 robbery spree after the courts declined to stop the execution based on arguments that the inmate was mentally ill at the time. Edwin Hart Turner, 38, died at 7:21 p.m. EST after receiving a chemical injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, authorities said. Turner was convicted of capital murder in the deaths...

BOSTON (AP) — A former Salvadoran military officer accused of a role in the 1989 deaths of six Jesuit priests has been formally indicted in Massachusetts on charges he lied under oath and made false statements on U.S. immigration forms. Inocente Orlando Montano was arrested on the immigration charges last year and had been expected to plead guilty but didn't. He's been free on bail. Wednesday's indictment charges Montano with two counts of p...

MIKE BAKER Associated Press= TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Emergency call logs show that nearly eight minutes elapsed between the time a social worker called 911 to report that Josh Powell's children were in danger and when deputies were dispatched, and it took another 14 minutes for a deputy to arrive on scene. The Associated Press obtained the logs Wednesday night under a public records request. At one point during the call, the dispatcher tells th...

MATTHEW DALY Associated Press= WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal policing of oil and natural gas drilling on public lands is lax and inconsistent, with only 6 percent of violations resulting in monetary fines over 13 years, House Democrats said in a report Wednesday. Fines over that time totaled less than $275,000, an amount that the Democratic staff of the House Natural Resources Committee characterized as little more than "pocket change" for oil a...

Fighting breaks out in Male after Mohamed Nasheed's claims that transition was a coup d'etat by military and police Ousted Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed is carried by supporters in Male after claims he was forced to resign at gunpoint. Photograph: Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters Fighting broke out between police and protesters in the Maldives after ousted president Mohamed Nasheed claimed he had been forced to give up his office at gunpoint...

Commission defends own role in evaluating controversial £7m sponsorship agreement with Dow Chemical The sustainability watchdog for London's 2012 Olympics is to urge the IOC to appoint an 'ethics champion' for future Games. Photograph: Olivia Harris/Reuters The London 2012 sustainability watchdog embroiled in a row over the sponsorship of the Olympic Stadium by Dow Chemical is to push the International Olympic Committee to appoint an "ethics...

Lucas Papademos secures agreement on policies including 22% cut in minimum wage and 15,000 public sector redundancies Greek prime minister Lucas Papademos has pushed through an agreement on painful austerity measure. Photograph: Orestis Panagiotou/AFP/Getty Images At almost the twelfth hour Athens has done it again: with all eyes in Europe's major capitals focused on it, the country appeared to pull back from the brink early on Thursday morn...

Political leaders finally decide on a course that would avert a chaotic default for the debt-choked nation Greek finance minister Evangelos Venizelos attended a eurogroup meeting with the ‘the agreement in his hands’, officials said. Photograph: Yiorgos Karahalis/Reuters After three days of high drama, political posturing and brinkmanship, Greece's coalition government reached a tentative agreement on the draconian terms required to unlock €...

WACO, Texas (AP) — Jeff Withey scored a career-high 25 points and Kansas went ahead to stay during a stretch without Thomas Robinson as the...

BOSTON (AP) — Jordan Daniels scored a career-high 19 points, including four 3-pointers, to...

CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Shenise Johnson scored 19 points and Riquna Williams added 17 to lead No. 6 Miami to a...

ATHENS — Talks between Prime Minister Lucas Papademos and the three political leaders in his government stalled early Thursday, but the leaders pledged to resume talks in order to reach an agreement on austerity measures demanded by Greece’s financial backers in return for a $170 billion bailout. Yannis Behrakis/Reuters Greek and European Union flags fluttered near the Parthenon in Athens on Wednesday. Multimedia Interactive Feat...

AMMAN (Reuters) - Armoured reinforcements poured into Homs as President Bashar al-Assad's forces bombarded the Syrian city for a fourth day, opposition sources said on Thursday, worsening the humanitarian situation and prompting a new diplomatic push from Turkey. Damaged houses are seen in the Sunni Muslim district of Bab Amro in Homs in this handout picture received February 8, 2012. REUTERS/Mulham Alnader/Handout Turkish Foreign Minister A...

MCKINNEY, Texas (Reuters) - Republican presidential contender Rick Santorum, a day after his stunning sweep of nominating contests in three states, scrambled in Texas on Wednesday to round up the support and money he needs to take on well-financed and well-organized rival Mitt Romney. U.S. Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum talks to supporters in the crowd after his primary night rally at the St. Charles ...

Iran’s top leaders displayed a public mix of bravado and defiance on Wednesday in the face of the West’s tightened antinuclear sanctions, using the impending 33rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution to denounce the United States, the European Union and Israel as colonialist bullies. Related Ahmadinejad Must Testify in Iran’s Parliament (February 8, 2012) Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking...

TIJUANA, Mexico — Men and women, young and old, all walk slowly now by the empty lot at Eighth and Constitución. Everyone stares. Some stop. Many point or shake their heads with surprise. Multimedia Slide Show A Turning Point for Tijuana Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Sandy Huffaker for The New York Times A street vendor selling corn on the cob. More Photos »...

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CAIRO - Investigative judges in Egypt said Wednesday that the Americans and Egyptians who have been charged in the government's crackdown on U.S.-funded pro-democracy groups could face up to five...

New European Union sanctions against Syria are expected to be...

BEIJING - An overseas news report says a Tibetan has set himself on fire in western China, and hundreds of others have...

TORONTO - A senior Canadian government official says Canada lodged a formal protest with Russia for supplying...

EUGENE, Ore. - An Oregon judge declared a mistrial Wednesday after jurors said they were hopelessly deadlocked in the murder trial of a 24-year-old hotel clerk accused of killing her newborn son. Angelica Swartout of Springfield was accused of smothering the baby in an...

RIVER FOREST, Ill. - Candy company executive Nello Ferrara lived a sweet life. The man who brought the world Lemonheads and Atomic Fire Balls routinely serenaded the restaurants where he dined and held mandatory family dinners every Sunday, said his son, Salvatore Ferrara. Nello Ferrara...

NEW YORK - A Canadian man in a New York court has admitted attempting to buy sophisticated technology for the now-defeated...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Demonstrators hurled stones at the convoy carrying Senegal's aging president to the regional capital of Thies, where he held a campaign rally Wednesday, according to witnesses and a private radio station. Before the caravan of cars carrying 85-year-old President Abdoulaye Wade had traveled the 45 miles (70 kilometers) to Thies, at least five of the cars had been vandalized by rock-throwing protesters, according to Sud F...

Himalayan glaciers and ice caps that supply water to more than a billion people in Asia are losing mass up to 10 times less quickly than once feared, reports a study published Thursday. Based on an improved analysis of satellite data from 2003 to 2010, the findings offer a reprieve for a region already feeling the impacts of global warming. But they do not mean that the threat of disruptive change has disappeared, the researchers warned. "Th...

Filipino veteran Frankie Minoza is hoping a pro-am round with revered boxer Manny Pacquiao will leave him fighting fit in his bid to claim a third title at this week's ICTSI Philippine Open. The 52-year-old Minoza, who won Asia's oldest Open in 1998 and 2007, called the WBO welterweight champion an inspiration for his country, still reeling from a deadly tropical storm late last year. "He's inspired the whole country with his achievements," ...

New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum won the toss and elected to bat in the third and final one-day international against Zimbabwe at McLean Park in Napier on Thursday. New Zealand lead the series 2-0 after two comprehensive victories over Zimbabwe and go into the match heavy favourites to complete a whitewash. The tourists endured a crushing defeat in a one-off Test at the same venue last month but Zimbabwe captain Brendan Taylor said his s...

TORONTO (AP) — A senior Canadian government official says Canada lodged a formal protest with Russia for supplying arms to the Assad regime in Syria. The official said Wednesday Canada's embassy in Moscow delivered a protest note to the Russian foreign ministry. He spoke on condition on anonymity because the official wasn't authorized to speak publicly. The official says Canada thinks an arms embargo by Russia would send a strong signal to t...

MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) - A U.S. drone attack in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region near the Afghanistan border killed four suspected militants Thursday, intelligence officials said, the second such attack in two days. The unacknowledged Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) drone program, a key element of the U.S. counter-terrorism strategy in the region, was apparently halted after a November NATO cross-border air attack killed 24...

PARIS — Three investigating judges have filed preliminary charges against former Labor Minister Eric Woerth for "passive influence...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City has agreed to pay a total of $15 million in compensation to some 22,000 people who were illegally arrested or issued...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - A U.N. official expressed support Wednesday for Haitian victims of former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier's regime who plan to appeal a judge's recommendation that calls for trying the ex-leader only for alleged financial crimes and not human rights abuses. The appeals process began this week after Haiti's attorney general...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday the Arab League chief told him he intends to revive an Arab League monitoring mission in Syria, which has collapsed amid continuing violence there. Nabil Elaraby asked for U.N. help with the project during a telephone conversation on Tuesday, Ban told reporters after briefing the U.N. Security Council on a visit he just paid to the Middle East. Elaraby had furthe...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Romanian man accused of hacking into NASA computers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Los Angeles under the online moniker "Iceman" has been indicted on a federal charge, prosecutors said on Wednesday. Robert Butyka is charged with hacking into 25 NASA computers at JPL in December of 2010, causing $500,000 in damage and leaving researchers unable to use them for two months, U.S....

(Reuters) - Las Vegas tycoon Steve Wynn and his biggest investor and former best friend Kazuo Okada go head to head in court on Thursday in a case that has implications for the control of the $15 billion Wynn Resorts Ltd gaming empire. The clash between the self-made billionaires - a Japanese businessman who made his fortune off pachinko machines and the American often credited with Las Vegas' modern-day makeover - is the culmination of a di...

Candy company executive Nello Ferrara lived a sweet life. The man who brought the world Lemonheads and Atomic Fire Balls routinely serenaded the restaurants where he dined and held mandatory family dinners every Sunday, said his son, Salvatore Ferrara. Nello Ferrara died Friday at his...

A Canadian man in a New York court has admitted attempting to buy sophisticated technology for the now-defeated Tamil Tiger...

An Oregon judge declared a mistrial Wednesday after jurors said they were hopelessly deadlocked in the murder trial of a 24-year-old hotel clerk accused of killing her newborn son. Angelica Swartout of Springfield was accused of smothering the baby in an employee bathroom at...

A man has been arrested following a December Sweet 16 party shooting that killed one person and injured seven others at a western Pennsylvania...

A document accidentally posted on a prosecutor's website cites a pharmacist's version of the friendly fire shooting death of a federal agent during a New Year's Eve robbery and differs from an account offered by an attorney for the retired police lieutenant who fired the fatal shot. The pharmacist claims a retired Nassau County police lieutenant, who ran to the scene when he heard reports of a robbery in progress, shot once without warning w...

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TACOMA, Wash. — Log: Deputy was dispatched 8 minutes after Powell 911 call, arrived on scene after 21 minutes Don Easton, a special investigator with Unified Investigations & Sciences, Inc., carries a melted gas can away in an evidence bag as he works, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012, in the charred rubble of the home where Josh Powell and his two...

LOS ANGELES — The scandal embroiling an elementary school where two teachers were arrested last week on lewdness charges widened Wednesday with revelations of 200 more inappropriate photos of children and that one teacher sent warmly written birthday cards and presents to students who participated in his "games." Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent John Deasy takes his seat following a closed-door meeting of the Board of...

CLEVELAND — A mentally disabled former drug dealer convicted in the fire deaths of nine people, including eight children at a birthday sleepover, on Wednesday won a new trial from a judge who said jailhouse snitches and other witnesses were unreliable. Defense attorney Angelo Lonardo answers questions about the Antun Lewis case Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012, in Cleveland. U.S. District Court Judge Solomon Oliver overturned the arson convicti...

WASHINGTON — For the past decade women in the U.S. military have served, fought and died on the battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan. Election 2012: Across the nation A political tip sheet for the rest of us For Santorum, new challenges follow his big wins Romney's Tuesday losses show conservative doubts Santorum files for Indiana ballot despite dispute Santorum jumps into second place in delegate race Interactive: Know the candidates ...

It is Thursday night and "gangs" of musicians and their adoring fans have already taken up residence in the gazebo, the pavilion, and along the grassy areas of the riverfront Gilchrist Park. Here is old time rock 'n' roll; here is country music; here is blues. If you come two weeks in a row, you begin to recognize the regulars. It is just one of the charming, endearing aspects of Punta Gorda, a community with long and strong heritage in Old...

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A woman suffered burns when the toilet roll wedding dress she was wearing at a hen party caught fire. The woman sustained burns to her chest and hand when the toilet paper dress caught fire as she tried to put out some paper which...

A reputed mob boss known for his wide girth and reputation for violence was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Wednesday in a federal court in Chicago. Michael "The Large Guy" Sarno also was ordered to pay nearly $US1.8 million ($1.67 million) in restitution. A jury convicted Sarno, 54, and four co-defendants in 2010 of...

A new specialist police unit tackling London gangs has carried out hundreds of raids, exactly six months on from the riots that hit the capital, arresting nearly 160 people. The 158 suspected members were picked up as hundreds of Metropolitan Police officers mounted more than 300 raids across the city on Wednesday, starting at dawn. Those detained are accused of assault, robbery, the supply of drugs and money laundering,...

SAN FRANCISCO — Stanford University said Wednesday its latest five-year fundraising drive netted $6.2 billion, one of the largest amounts ever collected in a higher-education campaign. Money raised by the Stanford Challenge is being used to fund an interdisciplinary approach to teaching and research on areas such as education,...

INDIANAPOLIS — Republican presidential contender Rick Santorum filed Wednesday to get on Indiana's primary ballot even though he has not been certified by local election officials. Indiana Election Division co-director Brad King said the...