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There's good news for drivers hitting the road this Memorial Day weekend: Gas prices are falling.

David Frum says the false accusation that he's a paid agent of the Pakistani government is the latest twist in the questionable "memogate" scandal.

Aswath Damodaran says that bankers are not so much evil as inept

One of the unintended consequences of the Arab revolutions has become evident in Israel, where a surge in the number of refugees from Africa has created new tensions in a country with no shortage of practical and ethical dilemmas.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is due to be grilled about his ties with global media baron Rupert Murdoch on Monday at an independent inquiry set up in response to phone hacking and police bribery at Murdoch newspapers in Britain.

Kofi Annan arrived in Damascus, Syria, amid growing fury over the slaughter of 108 people, including 49 children. He called on all sides to stop the violence.

A New Jersey pastor said Pedro Hernandez's wife was emotional and confused when she came to see him, after learning her husband was suspected of killing 6-year-old Etan Patz in 1979.

Two young men set themselves on fire in Lhasa Sunday outside the Jokhang Temple, the holiest site in the Tibetan capital and a popular tourist destination, Chinese state media reported Monday.

It's far more satisfying to reflect on the triumph of peace than the brutality of war that makes it possible, Bob Greene says.

Users of Sina Weibo, China's popular Twitter-like micro-blogging service, now have to abide by new rules aimed at preventing online rumors and other controversial posts.

Tropical Storm Beryl threatened to wipe out Memorial Day festivities across north Florida and south Georgia as it pelted the region with heavy rain and near hurricane-force winds early Monday, forecasters said.

Tropical Storm Beryl threatened to wipe out Memorial Day festivities across north Florida and south Georgia as it pelted the region with heavy rain and near hurricane-force winds early Monday, forecasters said.

A member of Pedro Hernandez's family walked into a Camden, New Jersey, police station in the 1980s and reported that Hernandez told relatives and others that he had killed a boy in New York and threw the body near a Dumpster -- but there's no indication anything came out of that report, the family member told CNN.

Watching the public execution of his mother and older brother, Shin Dong-Hyuk thought the punishment was just. After all, Shin - then 14 years old - had reported his family's plot to escape to prison camp guards.

A U.S. citizen has been kidnapped in the West African nation of Benin, a U.S. State Department official said Sunday.

The U.N. Security Council condemned the weekend massacre of more than 100 civilians in Syria, including the stabbing and axing of nearly 50 children, with members casting blame on government forces.

A bus full of Shiite pilgrims from Pakistan was struck by a roadside bomb Sunday in Iraq, leaving 24 wounded, officials said.

"Today... May 27... ...is AIMEE DAY!!!"

"There's life after the hospital bed," says Cpl. Todd Nicely , a quadruple amputee. He's one of a growing number of vets surviving injuries that in the past would have been life-ending.

They paid the ultimate sacrifice, and they leave behind wives, husbands, daughters, sons.