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Junior Seau's family will let researchers study the former NFL linebacker's brain for evidence of trauma, San Diego Chargers chaplain Shawn Mitchell said Friday.

As the saying goes about political parties and their candidates: Democrats fall in love and Republicans fall in line, notes Gloria Borger

Even by Bubba Watson's unpredictable standards, his decision to pull out of this month's Players Championship to spend more time with his family is an unusual one.

In Washington, a lot of the meetings that take place between lawmakers amount to nothing. But recently, there was a get-together that was really something.     

The two contenders for the French presidency entered the final day of campaigning Friday, with opinion polls giving challenger Francois Hollande the edge over President Nicolas Sarkozy.

The State Department says Chen Guangchen has been offered a fellowship at a university in the U.S. and that China has indicated it will approve his travel documents.

Former police sergeant Drew Peterson will be in an Illinois courtroom Friday for a hearing for his upcoming murder trial, court officials said.

A top U.S. Justice Department official warned Alabama's education department that the state's controversial immigration law has had "lasting" and possibly illegal consequences for Hispanic school children, according to a letter released Thursday.

John Davis, a former personal assistant to John Edwards, testified Thursday about answering a knock on his hotel door and being told by a campaign videographer that she and Edwards were in love.

Eight of the 13 people facing hazing charges after the death of a Florida A&M University band member had turned themselves in by Thursday afternoon, a state police spokeswoman said.

Two of four dismembered bodies found Thursday morning in the eastern state of Veracruz and bearing signs of torture have been identified as journalists, Mexican authorities said.

A New York grand jury has declined to indict a white police officer who shot and killed an ailing black veteran in his own apartment, the Westchester County District Attorney's Office said Thursday.

Nine men have been charged with hazing for their part in an initiation rite into a University of Florida fraternity earlier this year.

In the wake of the GSA convention scandal that is still reverberating across the government, officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Thursday pulled a help-wanted ad for a magician to appear at a leadership training event for its staff in the Washington area next month.

Khalid Yohana was 7 years old when war reached his hometown of Mosul, Iraq.

Documents recovered in the raid on the bin Laden compound reveal a hot-tempered terrorist leader annoyed with uncontrollable affiliates around the globe.

Iran, Syria, and now China. President Barack Obama faces a third front of vulnerability on his administration's record of defending human rights with the muddled situation involving activist Chen Guangcheng.

An explosion occurred Thursday inside a high school office in Memphis, Tennessee, school officials said.

A pastor and friend of Junior Seau's family said the linebacker suffered many concussions and that researchers have asked for permission to study his brain.

William Bennett says the government subsidy does little to address the real problems of higher education: rising costs