A federal court in Georgia was ordered to take a fresh look at the case of Troy Davis, who is on death row for the 1989 murder of an off-duty police officer.

More than one in 10 deaths in immigration detention since October 2003 were omitted from an official list, the Obama administration said.

Jones v. Harris Associates may to be the court’s first big statement on a culture that contributed to the recession.

Matt Aresco, a marine biologist, in a culvert near Tallahassee, Fla., where $3.4 million in stimulus aid was sought to help turtles navigate the area.Some criticized stimulus projects are popular locally and underscore that boondoggle is in the eye of the beholder.

A new Army program teaching mental resilience techniques is intended to prevent problems like post-traumatic stress disorder and depression.

In White House meetings beginning Monday, President Obama is expected to look to President Hosni Mubarak for help in breaking the latest Middle East deadlock, analysts said.

Arkansas, home of Senator Blanche Lincoln, has become emblematic of the centrist dilemma in the age of Obama.

A proposal from the Fairfield Greenwich Group to refund the losses of nearly a dozen investors has been turned down by the state.

Mayor Tom Barrett of Milwaukee was in the hospital after he was attacked by a person using a metal pipe at the Wisconsin State Fair.

The Obama administration sent signals that it has backed away from its vision of a government organization to provide for the uninsured and is open to using nonprofit cooperatives instead.