GENEVA — American goods will face around $295 million in annual sanctions as a result of the United States' failure to eliminate illegal subsidies to U.S. cotton growers, the World Trade Organization ruled Monday.
BOSTON — For decades, Edward Kennedy was considered the most powerful voice in the U.S. Senate for gay rights as a strong supporter of HIV/AIDS funding, hate crimes legislation and same-sex marriage.
NEWARK, N.J. — A northern New Jersey mayor said he's going to court Friday to stop renovation work at the mansion where Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi wants to stay next month when he addresses the United Nations General Assembly.
There's the White House auto czar, the health care czar and the yet-to-be-named cyber czar. There are czars overseeing drugs, climate and regulatory action. There's a pay czar overlooking executive compensation and talk of another for sports and culture.
CANTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Police say they have completed their investigation of a fatal train-on-car crash west of Detroit that claimed the lives of five young people.
GREENVILLE, S.C. — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford said Thursday that a state senator shouldn't single him out by investigating his travels after other governors bought pricey flights for years.
MIAMI — The number of Cubans attempting to cross the Florida Straits has fallen by more than half, putting 2009 on track to be perhaps the lowest for migration from the communist island in almost a decade.
