15 April 2008: Morning

In Iraq, car bomb explosions outside restaurants in two cities kill dozens.

Debt collectors end up costing the I.R.S. more than the taxes they recover--to the tune of $37 million.

Your tax questions, answered; why we should abolish taxes.

A.P. photographer Bilal Hussein, held for two years by U.S. military in Iraq under suspicion of aiding insurgents, to be released on Wednesday.

Seismologists predict California is in for a 6.7 earthquake within the next 30 years.

Democrats reach for the Catholic vote: Obama went to Catholic School, Clinton praises the Vatican as "the first carbon-neutral state in the world."

"Millennials": Not just cooler than you, but when Catholic, also more devout.

"How do we get the 'cool' factor back into the priesthood?" New York Archdiocese faces dwindling seminary numbers.

Researchers say faulty rivets led to the Titanic's rapid sinking; better construction could have kept the ship afloat longer, in time for help to arrive.

In 1863, Abe Lincoln freed the slaves. But by 1965, slavery will be back!

A brief history of ampersands, including some that don't look like them at all.

"When [children] get to the age of clear speech and clearness of reason I associate with them, I wouldn't say play with them. Interview with Waugh gone wrong.