After Rape, Calls to Limit Where Sex Offenders Go

The mayor of New Bedford, Mass., has drafted an ordinance to bar high-risk sex offenders from coming within a certain distance of numerous public places.

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Public senses an economy going south - Los Angeles Times

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New Investigation in Texas E-Mail Case

Texas District Attorney Charles A. Rosenthal Jr. faced questions about hundreds office of E-Mail messages containing racy jokes, racial slurs and political campaign materials.

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Rise Seen in Trafficking of Enhanced Ecstasy

Methamphetamine-laced Ecstasy is flowing across the Canadian border into the United States.

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Kenya Kikuyus, Long Dominant, Are Now Routed

Tens of thousands of Kikuyus, the tribe of Kenya's president, have fled because of ethnic violence.

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Army Lets a Felon Join Up, but N.Y.P.D. Will Not

Close to an honorable discharge from the Army, a former inmate at Rikers Island jail is finding that what the Army forgave is remembered at home.

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Justices to Decide if Rape of a Child Merits Death

Until now, the Supreme Court's 1977 re-examination of capital punishment had been widely understood as limiting the death penalty to the crime of murder.

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Interior Secretary Rejects Catskill Casino Plans

The federal government said that two casinos planned for the Catskill Mountains were too far from the reservations of the two tribes that submitted the plans.

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Bush Ponders Move to Bolster Economy

President Bush's suggestion of an economic stimulus package is the clearest indication yet of a growing concern inside the White House over the possibility of recession.

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U.S. Curtailing Bids to Expand Medicaid Rolls

The Bush administration is restricting the ability of states to expand Medicaid in an effort to prevent them from offering coverage to families of modest incomes.

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California Sues E.P.A. Over Denial of Waiver

California sued the E.P.A. on Wednesday, challenging its recent decision to block California rules curbing greenhouse-gas emissions from new cars and trucks.

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States Hesitate to Lead Change on Executions

Why have states clung to an execution method with the potential to inflict pain when a simpler one is available?

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New Questions Arise in Killing of Ex-Premier

Indications that doctors felt pressured to conform to government accounts of Benazir Bhutto's death added to the pressure for an international inquiry.

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Surge in Off-Roading Stirs Dust and Debate in West

Federally owned lands are being transformed into the new playgrounds, and battlegrounds, of the American West.

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Effort to Block California Anti-Bias Bill

Conservative groups are trying to block a bill because it includes language that would extend protection to students based on their sexual orientation and gender identity.

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U.S. Ruling Backs Benefit Cut at 65 in Retiree Plans

A new regulation lets employers establish two classes of retirees, with more benefits for those under 65 and fewer, or none at all, for those older.

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When Private Struggles Become Public Displays

As presidential candidates engage in personal politicking, they are often confronted with the most intimate of problems from the people who come out to see them.

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The Worst Courts for Businesses? It's a Matter of Opinion

The arguments made in the American Tort Reform Association's report on the country's "judicial hellholes" don't always make sense.

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California Moves Toward Universal Health Care

A plan that would provide coverage to an estimated 70 percent of the 5.1 million persistently uninsured Californians passed the State Assembly on Monday.

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Venti Capitalists

A look at Starbucks as a corporate juggernaut.

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In Hospice Care, Longer Lives Mean Money Lost

With patients living longer, the government is making hospices repay hundreds of millions of dollars to Medicare.

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House Approves Broad Protections for Gay Workers

A bill granting protections against discrimination in the workplace for gays was praised as a civil rights victory.

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Pakistan Attempts to Crush Protests by Lawyers

The government of Gen. Pervez Musharraf faced the first signs of concerted resistance to the imposition of emergency rule.

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'Bad' Legal Advice and the Death Penalty

The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it would use an Idaho murder case to decide how appellate courts are to evaluate claims of ineffective assistance of counsel in plea negotiations.

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Pittsburgh Episcopal Diocese Votes to Leave the Church

Members of the diocese voted Friday in favor of separating from the national church because of a rift that began with the consecration of an openly gay bishop.

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