In his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee today, Gonzales qualifies the attorney firings as "flawed," though not "improper." U.S. District Court to decide whether Yahoo can be held responsible for torture by the Chinese government. Ten suspects arrested in the bloody murder of three
NBC receives packaged manifesto, images from Virginia Tech killer; the parcel was sent between shootings, and showed up a day late because the address was wrong. Until just cause is exhibited, universities have few options to deal with troubled students. No one died for lack of text messages or an
Bomb explosions today kill at least 157 in Baghdad. Britain drops the phrase "war on terror," finding it "ill-defined, oversimplistic, and excessively martial and Manichaean." Gov. Kaine orders, at Virginia Tech's request, an independent investigation of campus response to the shootings. "They
Two violent, rape-filled plays by Cho Seung-Hui, the Virginia Tech shooter. Other signs: investigated for stalking, reprimanded for up-skirt shots, noticed for bizarre classroom behavior. How the tragedy played out in real time on the web, particularly on Fark.com. Aside from Edwards, both Republicans and Democrats
Virginia Tech shooter identified as 23-year-old senior Cho Seung Hui. Profiles of the victims start to emerge, including one Holocaust survivor. Who the Virginia Tech shooter isn't. Can a bank be held liable for what a heroin addict spends their loan on? Egyptian bloggers--the pyjamahideen-
Questions, anger over the two-hour gap between the first shooting and Virginia Tech's first email to students. (Emails are here.) Interactive map depicts times and locations of the killings, and when and how the university and police reacted. A look at the students who may have been
At least 30 dead at Virginia Tech in deadliest campus shooting in American history. Study finds little improvement in arrest rates after California mandates drug treatment over incarceration. So many men had passed through Cell 6 that they had left their smell on the walls, and while I was making
Two days before his hearing, Gonzales releases testimony denying any wrongdoing--but Specter says the real issue is if he can do his job. Tornadoes, flooding, cancelled flights: This weekend's storm wrecked havoc across the eastern U.S., and shattered seaboard rainfall records. Four days after his car
L.A.'s Sugar Shack fights for their mural, or, how to be a hippie in the 21st-century. Mexican drug traffickers resort to medieval tactics, post heads on roadside stakes. It became clear that the number of work-related nailgun injuries had stayed stable since 1998. It was
Yesterday's Iraqi Parliament bomber was likely a security guard, possibly connected to al Qaeda. "Nowhere is safe," says Paliament member. That said, pockets of stability are beginning to emerge in Baghdad. White House seems to have lost--or allowed to be deleted--several years of Karl
