Bob Drogin

Corazon Aquino, the unassuming housewife who toppled a dictator and restored democracy to the Philippines as its 11th president, has died of heart failure. She was 76. She died early...

This historic town, where America's founding fathers plotted during the Revolution and Milton Hershey later crafted his first chocolates, now boasts another distinction: It may become the nation's most closely...

Meade High School made its own history this year when the public high school became one of the first in the nation to offer a four-year course in homeland security....

A security camera recorded the man wearing dark sunglasses and a hooded sweat shirt as he walked by Boston's Symphony Hall on Feb. 9 and dropped a cardboard tube marked...

As trumpets played and drums rolled, Barack Obama walked smiling out of the Capitol and into the winter sun to take his oath of office, stopping to embrace an icon...

Barack Obama and John McCain offered more details Tuesday about what they would do to bail out the nation's struggling financial institutions, with both demanding remedies that provide greater oversight...

The "hockey mom" hit the national stage Wednesday night -- with a series of body checks. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Sen. John McCain's surprise running mate, sought to turn five...

Rafid Ahmed Alwan hoped for an easier life when he came here from Iraq nine years ago. He also hoped for a reward for cooperating with German intelligence officers. "For...

The high-profile nuclear cooperation deal that lies at the heart of improving ties between India and the U.S. has run into serious trouble over the fine print. Officials on both...

More than a year before President Bush declared in his State of the Union speech that Iraq had tried to buy nuclear weapons material in Africa, the French spy service...