Grave by mass grave, South Korea is unearthing the skeletons and buried truths of a cold-blooded slaughter from early in the Korean War, when this nation’s U.S.-backed regime killed untold thousands of leftists and hapless peasants in a summer of terror in 1950. With U.S. military officers sometimes present, and …

WASHINGTON – First the good news: The worst of the painful housing slump and the credit crunch might come to an end this year. Now the bad: The economy will weaken further and unemployment will rise. That’s the latest outlook from forecasters in a survey to be released Monday by …

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – America’s wildlife refuges are so short of money that one-third have no staff, boardwalks and buildings are in disrepair, and drug dealers are using them to grow marijuana and make methamphetamine, a group pushing for more funding says. “Without adequate funding, we are jeopardizing some of the …

A new book which suggests that the German occupation of France encouraged the sexual liberation of women has shocked a country still struggling to come to terms with its troubled history of collaboration with the Nazis. Like a recent photographic exhibition showing Parisians enjoying themselves under the occupation, the book’s …

JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who is a suspect in several alleged corruption affairs, will face police questioning on Friday, his office said. It was not known which of the cases was to be covered. In a statement Thursday, Olmert’s office said that he “made time in his …

ALBANY, N.Y. – New York Gov. David Paterson is granting a full and unconditional pardon to rapper Ricky “Slick Rick” Walters for the attempted murders of two men in 1991. The pardon is expected to halt efforts to deport Walters to the United Kingdom, the country he left as a …

SAN FRANCISCO – Former Bay Area radio talk show host Bernie Ward admits he distributed child pornography and could face at least five years in federal prison following a plea deal. Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker agreed Thursday to hold off on accepting Ward’s plea to one count of …

GREENSBORO, N.C. – North Carolina A&T State University says a football player has died from complications of heat illness. The school said Wednesday that senior Chad Wiley collapsed after a voluntary workout on campus Tuesday. Officials said he was immediately transported to the hospital after an athletic trainer stabilized home. …

SAN FRANCISCO – Computer attacks typically don’t inflict physical pain on their victims. But in a rare example of an attack apparently motivated by malice rather than money, hackers recently bombarded the Epilepsy Foundation’s Web site with hundreds of pictures and links to pages with rapidly flashing images. The breach …

BOSTON – University of Massachusetts President Jack Wilson has recommended that the Board of Trustees revoke an honorary degree awarded two decades ago to Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe. Wilson said Monday that the degree has been smeared by years of misrule in the southern Africa nation. His statement came after …