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The charges include allegations that the congressman failed to report rental income on vacation property in the Dominican Republic and over the course of nearly a decade failed to report more than $600,000 on his financial disclosure statements.

English speakers might be justified for their confusion over the wording of North Korean reports of its alleged underground test of a nuclear device. Slate senior editor Andy Bowers explains the roots of the fractured English spoken in North Korea.

North Korea warned Friday that U.S.-South Korean plans for military maneuvers put the peninsula on the brink of war.

The DREAM Act would put some young people on a course toward citizenship. But it's unclear whether bringing it up now will nudge the issue forward, or further inflame already red-hot feelings and end up going nowhere.

For the past week, the world has been waiting for news about who will be North Korea's next leader. But in a time when nearly everyone learns everything at the same moment, North Korea has somehow managed to keep its secrets from thousands of prying eyes.

Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) has been in office for just under two years. He has few legislative accomplishments. His previous job was state senator from Illinois. But he has somehow become a "dream candidate" for the 2008 presidential race. What's up?

The United Nations has nominated South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon as U.N. secretary-general. Madeleine Brand speaks with Ambassador Wendy Sherman, former North Korea policy adviser to President Clinton, about what kind of leader he would be.

My Brother is an Only Child is based on a novel by Antonio Pennacchi, entitled Il Fasciocomunista. Luchetti insists that his film doesn't take a political…

Two couples — two brothers and their wives — meet for a meal in Herman Koch's new novel The Dinner, and it's anything but a convivial family gathering. Both couples have teenage sons, and they're meeting to discuss a ghastly crime the boys have committed.

A leaky hydraulic system, incomplete records and a dead battery all became part of the Deepwater Horizon story as a House investigative subcommittee revealed new details about the oil-rig explosion that set off the massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico.