Cheruiyot of Kenya wins fourth Boston Marathon; Ethiopian Tune wins for women in marathon's closest finish. Street view shows Zimbabwe preserving patience for getting around to rigging the election. Study says American gun owners are educated, wealthy, and very happy. Financial analysts offer to talk about recession for
Some claim Democratic leaders are working to end their race before it reaches the convention floor. Condoleezza Rice visits Iraq, ridicules al-Sadr, who on Saturday threatened open war. In Sadr City, civilian casualties increase as fighting between militias and U.S.-Iraqi forces intensifies. Our morning plateful is honest
Mugabe blames his likely defeat on the British, those who "deliberately engage in reversing the gains of our liberation." Europeans say China's a bigger threat to global stability than the U.S. Op: Four ways to deal with rogue states going nuclear: preemption, deterrence, missile defense,
The coming recession: Workers working fewer hours, earning less, spending less. The food crisis is...eroding the gains of the working and middle classes, sowing volatile levels of discontent, and putting new pressures on fragile governments. Op: The food crisis should come as no surprise, what with inflation, globalization, and
Study estimates 320,000 veterans suffer brain injuries, 300,000 depression or post-traumatic stress disorder. Ratio of the estimated number of fake doctors practicing in Delhi, India, to the number of real ones: 1:1. Since Clinton had her humanity surgically removed, she seems less exhausted. Andrew Sullivan'
With the Supreme Court's upholding of lethal injection, expect renewed executions, new avenues of litigation. Suicide bomber attacks Sunni funeral in northern Iraq, killing at least 49 people. Upstaged, but also in town: Gordon Brown; he's saying it: "No one thinks...Mugabe has won this
"The largest crowd of Bush's presidency" turns out to sing "Happy Birthday" to the Pope. Police arrest Libertarians for dancing silently while celebrating Jefferson's birthday. When Atran went back to Washington to brief National Security Council and Homeland Security staff in January
Two new articles accuse Merck, the maker of Vioxx, of ghostwriting, underreported numbers that may have led to patient deaths. Democrats prefer Popeyes and Republicans Chick-fil-A. Even political strategists know that you are what you eat. Related: Belly fat [has been] linked to diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke,
Mothers from the Texas polygamist compound speak out against authorities and C.P.S. Related: What happens next for the displaced children. Creating artificial eggs and sperm from other cells could allow same-sex couples to have their own biological children. This is how things work in Russia. If the
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
