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John Rosenberg on the expensive out-of-state legal fees that the University of Texas is paying to defend its race-based admission policy.

An Australian firm encounters New York's notorious labor graft.

While loud and raucous rallies are still a part of the tea party toolbox, the conservative grassroots movement is evolving.

The editorial board discusses Arizona's immigration law, ObamaLoans for college kids and France at the socialist cliff at 2 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET.

Frida Ghitis says President Obama shouldn't apologize for the Cartagena incident, but he should begin to take Latin America seriously

Joe Johns reports on the trial of John Edwards & new evidence about the cover-up of his affair & mistress' pregnancy.

The White House has ignored a deadline to provide answers to a senior Senate Republican about the Secret Service prostitution scandal, an aide to Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said Friday.

An architecturally ambitious concert hall or opera house can give an aspiring city a seat at the global cultural table, as Victoria Newhouse shows in her meticulous survey "Site and Sound." Ada Louise Huxtable reviews.

A more aggressive press corps might have motivated him to preserve his dignity.

"The Passage of Power," book four of Robert Caro's "The Years of Lyndon Johnson," follows LBJ from 1958 to 1964.

The author on novels about women in search of themselves, including Nancy Mitford's "The Pursuit of Love" and Amy Bloom's "Away."

A former campaign aide for John Edwards said in court Friday that he had been intimidated in his dealings with the former senator and two high-priced donors.

As the first week of the John Edwards federal criminal trial comes to an end, where the former Democratic senator and presidential candidate is accused of using hundreds of thousands of dollars of donations to conceal his affair with a campaign videographer without reporting the money to federal authorities, we wanted to take a look back at some statistics about other politicians in trouble.

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Police in Tucson, Ariz., say underwater searches have turned up no sign of a 6-year-old girl who disappeared from her home a week ago.

Lt. Fabian Pacheco said Friday that investigators working on Isabel Mercedes Celis' disappearance spent the night combing through the lake at a ...

Tavis Smiley, Cornel West say as the middle class slips into poverty, the needs of the rich are taking priority over those of everyday Americans.

Maya MacGuineas says the spiraling national debt is a fearsome challenge for the next president. Candidates should be compelled to spell out for voters their specific plans for tackling it

CNN's Candy Crowley talks to House Speaker John Boehner about the threat of higher student loan interest rates.

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A 200-pound black bear that wandered onto the University of Colorado campus has been relocated to the nearby Rocky Mountains.

State wildlife official Jennifer Churchill said Friday that the male bear was tagged and taken to a remote area of ponderosa pines, oak brush and chokeberry ...

David Gergen and Michael Zuckerman say the old idea of polarized political parties is now a reality, and it's bad for America.

The White House said Friday that President Barack Obama would veto a Republican measure passed by the House to extend lower interest rates on federal student loans because it takes money from a health care fund that benefits women.