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Undercover informants have already stopped serious plots, and they'll become more important in coming years.

The risks of mistake, coercion and abuse are too great to warrant legal immunity for doctors who help end lives.

Any analysis of taxes paid in high tax-and-spend countries shows that the U.S. has the most progressive income tax system in the world.

A study shows that Medicaid reform is working in Rhode Island.

Gradual easing makes sense if reform continues.

"Escape From Camp 14" tells the story of one man's incarceration and personal awakening in North Korea's highest-security prison. Melanie Kirkpatrick reviews.

Linda Greenhouse spins an elaborate fantasy about the Supreme Court.

Press Secretary Jay Carney comments on President Obama's remark about judicial precedent and the Court of Appeals.

Get out Rick, a growing Republican chorus says. Forget it, responds Rick Santorum to the calls to drop his increasingly long-shot bid for the GOP presidential nomination. The pressure to withdraw is actually incentive for Santorum to stay in the race.

Pro-life groups often insist that they don't get a fair shake in the media, and now the Vitae Foundation has confirmation.

Both the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Washington News Council have sided with the foundation in its fairness complaint against Seattle's National Public Radio station, KUOW-FM, which ran ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Gun-rights advocates scored a victory Thursday when the Illinois Supreme Court decided to let a challenge to Cook County's assault-weapons ban proceed, even though two lower courts had tossed it out.

The high court, in a unanimous ruling, said it wants the trial court to hear ...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The state Senate voted Thursday to abolish the death penalty in Connecticut, a state that has executed only one prisoner in a half-century and is now on track to join a national trend away from capital punishment.

In an early morning vote that followed more than 10 ...

KODIAK, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard plans to use cannon fire to sink a derelict Japanese ship dislodged by last year's massive tsunami.

The shrimping vessel, which has no lights or communications systems, was floating about 195 miles south of Sitka in the Gulf of Alaska on Thursday ...

The Justice Department obeyed a federal appeals court's unusual order Thursday in a legal and political spat over the health care law championed by President Barack Obama.

Jeffrey Toobin discusses a federal court's request that the Justice Dept explain Obama's SCOTUS health care comments.

Brian Todd reports on the public political battle between President Obama and the courts over the health care debate.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin urged West Virginians to observe a moment of silence Thursday, starting at 3:01 p.m., to mark the second anniversary of the Upper Big Branch mine disaster and the deaths of 29 men.

The powerful April 5, 2010, explosion at the former Massey ...

President Obama and Mitt Romney make claims on key issues. CNN's Wolf Blitzer separates the facts from the fiction.

Mississippi lawmakers passed a bill Wednesday that would require any physician performing abortions in the state to be a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist and to have admitting privileges at an area hospital.

BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — The judge overseeing Jerry Sandusky's child sex-abuse case says an ongoing secret grand jury investigation into the former Penn State assistant football coach is complicating preparations for his trial.

In a brief pretrial hearing Thursday, Judge John Cleland said he wouldn't issue a decision on a ...