An American sentenced to hard labor for intruding into Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader left with a visiting American senator.

The son of the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy said he would take advantage of an Alabama law allowing for the pardons of people arrested in civil rights protests.

Senator Christopher J. Dodd was released from the hospital on Saturday after undergoing surgery for prostate cancer.

The former militant, Pol Brennan, 56, has spent 17 months in immigration detention centers while fighting deportation.

A court defeat over water supply has left Atlanta howling that other states are trying to choke off its prosperity.

Rahm Emanuel is emerging as possibly the most influential White House chief of staff in a generation.

Even in a downturn, preachers in the “prosperity gospel” movement are drawing sizable, adoring audiences.

This weekend, the president is pushing a plan for a health care overhaul, and getting in some family time.

The race between Gov. Rick Perry and Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison mirrors a larger conflict between the Republican Party’s conservative and moderate wings.

Lynette A. Fromme, the Manson follower known as Squeaky who tried to kill President Gerald R. Ford in 1975, was released on parole.