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China is an emerging superpower. It has a booming economy and will host the 2008 Summer Olympics. But there are major concerns over the country's human rights record. And fears about the balance of

Host Gloria Penner talks with a Union-Tribune editor and a political analyst about Tuesday’s election results.

Faisal Shahzad was charged Tuesday with terrorism in the botched attempt to detonate an explosives-packed SUV in New York's Time Square. Although he told investigators that he acted on his own, court papers stated that Shahzad also said he had recently received training in Pakistan.

The Department of Homeland Security has ordered airlines to check the federal "no fly" list more quickly to close a loophole that nearly allowed the man accused of plotting to bomb New York's Times Square to flee the country.

"America & the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation," a new book by Elaine Tyler May, marks the 50th anniversary of the development of 'The Pill'. This history of how the birth control pill has affected Americans since its inception in 1960 explores everything from population control to Playboy, libido to liberation.

Family members of Annie Le, the Yale University doctoral student found murdered on what was to be her wedding day, said they'll always remember the beaming smile and fun-loving spirit of the brilliant woman who hoped to change the world through her medical research. About 600 mourners attended Saturday's funeral in California.

Insecticides can kill mosquitoes that spread malaria, but some super-mosquitoes are immune to insecticides. Now, researchers think they've found a solution. Since most mosquitoes don't live long enough to transmit malaria, researchers are working on a fungus that kills only the older mosquitoes most likely to carry the disease.

Robert C. Byrd, the longest-serving senator in U.S. History died Monday. He was 92. Byrd was best known for his ardent defense of both the U.S. Constitution his love of Senate history.

The warning was ominous, its predictions dire: Oceanographers issued a bulletin telling Hawaii and other Pacific islands that a killer wave was heading their way with terrifying force and that "urgent action should be taken to protect lives and property."

New developments in Kenya suggest concessions between President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga have stalled, despite international pressure and violent unrest.