Hurley's World

Despite efforts to get drivers to stop texting, police officers and paramedics use an array of dashboard gadgets.

The ban, announced by House Democratic leaders, wipes out one of the most lucrative and controversial means of awarding no-bid contracts to private firms.

A Michigan city settled a discrimination suit by offering homes to descendants of residents forced off their land.

The police have arrested about 200 people in Jos, where this week dozens of herdsmen slaughtered hundreds of people in a brutal act of sectarian retribution.

Previously undisclosed e-mail messages provide new evidence about Senator John Ensign’s efforts to steer lobbying work to the husband of his former mistress.

The new standards, which experts said could well be adopted by a majority of states, would replace the nation’s checkerboard of locally written standards.

Geneticists said the new research shows it is now possible to sequence the genome of a patient at reasonable cost and with sufficient accuracy to be of practical use to researchers.

David J. Loglisci, the former chief investment officer for the New York’s pension fund, told a court of kickbacks.

An exhibit at the New-York Historical Society is the first large- scale showing of items from the Grateful Dead archive.

The aftermath of the earthquake may give the country’s new right-wing government a chance to entomb the ghosts of the Gen. Augusto Pinochet.

House Democrats were desperately trying to prevent a sweeping overhaul of student loan programs from becoming a casualty of the health care battle.

The ex-husband of the woman who called herself “JihadJane,” said she “was just like anyone else.”

The Board of Education in Kansas City, Mo., accepted a sweeping and contentious plan to shrink its school system in the face of dwindling enrollment, budget cuts and a $50 million deficit.

Gary Gensler, head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, is the leading contender to oversee the instruments that played a key role in the financial crisis.

Baby carriers are more popular as parents believe the snuggled-up style has benefits for infants.

A virtual futures exchange is being assembled to allow people to bet money on a film’s box office success.

In the London Evening Standard this week Winnie Mandikizela-Mandela described her former husband as a figurehead who had made a bad deal with South Africa’s former white rulers.

The announcements by Ingersoll-Rand and Royal Dutch Shell come as the U.S. is pressing for new sanctions.

Palestinian leaders meeting with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. condemned a decision by Israel on new housing, but still spoke of participating in peace talks.

The review aims to help the U.N. climate change panel avoid the kinds of errors that have brought its work into question in recent months, officials said Wednesday.