Mexican police have arrested Jose Antonio Torres Marrufo, who is alleged to have masterminded drug exportation and murders.

Marrufo, the supposed head of a Sinaloa drug cartel, has been accused by...

a function on January 21. Below is his speech at the election launch. * * * Thank you friends and comrades for turning out in such good numbers at a difficult time of the year given holidays and...

A rgentina once again is harassing the British-ruled Falkland Islands 500 miles off its southern coast, islands Argentine soldiers seized in 1982 and from which the British ejected them in a...

BOSTON -- TD Garden is not the most hospitable venue in the NHL. The team that resides there is big, tough and talented, and fans can be pretty hostile at times. Penguins goalie Marc-Andre Fleury...

Unseasonably warm weather across the Midwest and Northeast this winter has dealt a blow to local and regional resorts for the first half of the snowsports season, delivering less natural snow and...

On-again, off-again relationships can be so uncomfortable for friends and associates of the partners, a condition that is especially true when there's been acrimony, talk of betrayal, fights...

It's been too long since the phrases "unemployment rate" and "cautious optimism" could be found in the same sentence. That changed Friday with news that the nation's...

The good news is that the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation has seen the error of its way and reversed its plans to eliminate grants to Planned Parenthood. The bad news is how it lost sight of...

"In retrospect,'' Bill DeWeese told me over dinner last June, "I should have been more administratively punctilious.'' That's the way Mr. DeWeese always has spoken...

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness," said Charles Dickens (1812-1870) in one of the most celebrated passages in...

Duquesne snapped a 14-game losing streak against Richmond Saturday night, beating the Spiders 81-72 in the Chuck Cooper Classic at the A.J. Palumbo Center. Duquesne dominated the boards 39-31, shot...

Terrible crimes were committed during and after Spain's 1936-39 civil war that no court has yet examined or judged. No one knows how many people were taken away, tortured and murdered. Now, one of...

In a big win for environmentalists and the planet, the administration of United States President Barack Obama announced on January 20 that it would deny a permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline to...

Participants in the January 14-15 anti-nuclear conference in Tokyo. Photo by John Tutty. Five anti-nuclear activists travelled from Australia to attend the Global Conference for a Nuclear Power Free...

. That is surely a clue that the people Abbott directed his "unAustralian" jibe at were never exactly aspiring to win any "fair dinkum Aussie" award. These are people who have...

INDIANAPOLIS -- The road for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2012, selected here Saturday and inducted in Canton, Ohio, this summer, must go through Pittsburgh. Of the six new Hall of Famers,...

Palo Alto, Calif.
THE other day, while I was rummaging through a stack of oldish articles on the future of the Internet, an obscure little essay from 1998 - published, of all places, on a Web...

As the world has grown smaller while our passion for novelty has expanded, our curiosity about different cultures, particularly those relatively untouched by what we deem "civilisation",...

Gary Oldman is an English actor who first gained acclaim for playing Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols in the 1986 film "Sid and Nancy," but he is perhaps more widely known for his roles as Sirius Black...

On Tuesday, if history is any guide, several tens of thousands of Minnesotans will join others who are more or less like-minded politically for a biennial event known as the precinct caucus....

Last week they finally came -- Rick Santorum to Luverne, Mitt Romney to Eagan, and Ron Paul to Rochester, Chanhassen and Arden Hills. Anybody sighted a Newt? The Republican presidential nomination...

Thorough reform of the way Minnesota taxes businesses is at least a year away at the State Capitol. But for understandable economic and election-year reasons, the political itch is intensifying to...

The Legislature's careful and limited use of private meetings to create safe space and the need for "sunshine" are not irreconcilable. We must have both. Sunshine should be the general...

The ugly partisanship displayed by Senate Republicans during the first days of this year's legislative session was extremely disappointing. It belied their professed desire to work cooperatively...

It was in the 1970s, and I was 20 years old. On a cold November night, my friend and I were walking to our car in an adjacent parking lot in our small hometown in Minnesota, when a man jumped us and,...

Fabio Capello , noted fan of opera, and collector of art, will be pondering the question of team spirit. He'll think of Steven Gerrard, who punched a disc jockey in the face as the man walked...

The writers Donald Antrim, Chad Harbach and Susan Orlean - three of the millions who will watch the Super Bowl today - chat about the appeal of sports. (This online conversation has been edited for...

A BATTLE between a class of fourth graders and a major movie studio would seem an unequal fight.


So it proved to be: the studio buckled. And therein lies a story of how new Internet tools are...

Moscow


AS a journalist, the best part of covering the recent wave of protests and uprisings against autocrats is seeing stuff you never imagined you'd see - like, in Moscow last week, when...

LAST week he did it again, wading into a discussion of money - or, rather, of the "very poor" who lack it - and succumbing to yet another pink slip of the tongue. Mitt Romney is forever being tripped...

WASHINGTON


IF you want to figure out why Newt Gingrich is still out there grasping for lost power, howling at the moon like King Lear, look to Callista.
You can find her anytime standing...

Boston Bruins' Daniel Paille is tripped up between the Penguins' Tyler Kennedy, left and Brooks Orpik (44) during the second period of this afternoon's game in...

During an artillery barrage last Nov. 11, Yemeni security forces killed 13 civilians in the city of Taizz. One of them was a patient at al-Rawdha Hospital, which mortar rounds and tank fire struck...

Should capital gains and dividends be treated like ordinary income? Readers discuss the pros and cons of tax preferences.


The Letter
To the Editor:
President Obama's State of the...

THE tale of an exceptional scholar-athlete torn between playing his final football game and competing for a Rhodes scholarship gave way to a darker story in The Times recently - one involving...

LAST week, Facebook filed documents with the government that will allow it to sell shares of stock to the public. It is estimated to be worth at least $75 billion. But unlike other big-ticket...

The Supreme Court underscored its power to shape American life when it took major cases about the health care reform law, Arizona's anti-immigrant law and the Voting Rights Act in an election year....

From book publishers like Macmillan to Hollywood studios like Disney, producers of content are deeply frustrated by the defeat of their efforts to curb online piracy in Congress last month. The bill...

It is only a first step toward healing the economy's biggest open wound, but President Obama's new mortgage refinancing plan could provide considerable relief for millions of homeowners shackled to...

THE word "dyslexia" evokes painful struggles with reading, and indeed this learning disability causes much difficulty for the estimated 15 percent of Americans affected by it. Since the phenomenon of...

Attorneys representing a man who was sentenced to death more than two decades ago in the murder of a waitress in Fayette County are trying to stop prosecutors from retrying the defendant. A federal...

MORE people live alone than at any other time in history. In prosperous American cities - Atlanta, Denver, Seattle, San Francisco and Minneapolis - 40 percent or more of all households contain a...

A Cambria County man driving on the wrong side of the road was killed overnight in a head-on collision, according to Pennsylvania State Police. Brian Polk, 34, of Salix was driving a minivan south...

Melissa Gilbert basically grew up on television. For 10 years she played Half Pint, the nickname for her character Laura Ingalls Wilder on the long-running "Little House on the Prairie"...

Fans line up outside Beaver Stadium to see their team enter the stadium before the start of their team's game against Nebraska today. One sign commented on the sex abuse reporting scandal that...

February 4, 2012 I would like to rise up today in defense of Diet Coke. All diet sodas, in fact. But Diet Coke happens to be my favorite. I like the stuff. Cracking open a can of it, or pouring...

Black Deaths in Custody Watch Group meeting. Wed Mar 28, 5.30pm, Link Up Queensland Aboriginal Corporation Centre 1/18 Scott Street, Parramatta Park. Ph 4041...

Roy Police detectives walk in front of Roy High School Jan. 26, 2012, in Roy, Utah. Congratulations to Bailey Gerhardt for her bravery for possibly saving the lives of many of our precious youth at...