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Long after death, Confederate spy honored in Ark.
The story of David O. Dodd is relatively unknown outside of Arkansas, but the teenage spy who chose to hang rather than betray the Confederate cause ...
Do black people support Obama because he's black?
Surviving slavery, segregation and discrimination has forged a special pride in African-Americans. Now some are saying this hard-earned pride has ...
Egypt's Islamists play to anti-Israel sentiment
A fiery tirade against Jews by the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's leader highlights one of the foremost diplomatic challenges facing the country's new ...
SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Justices as campaign issue
A closely divided Supreme Court. Four justices in their 70s. Presidential candidates with dramatically different views of the ideal high court nominee
Texas affirmative action plan in trouble at court
The fate of the University of Texas' affirmative action program rests with the Supreme Court, where skeptical conservative justices indicated they are ...
Judges OK SC voter law, say it must wait to 2013
A three-judge panel has upheld South Carolina's law requiring voters to show photo identification but has delayed enforcement until next year — adding ...
21 killed in attacks across central, north Nigeria
Violence across central and north Nigeria killed 21 people, as gunmen attacked both security forces and civilians in a region where ethnic and ...
High court looks at race in college admissions
Nine years after the Supreme Court said colleges and universities can use race in their quest for diverse student bodies, the justices have put this ...
SAfrica: Union accuses platinum producer of racism
The National Union of Mineworkers accused Anglo American Platinum Monday of "racism" as the impasse between striking miners and the world's top ...
Wiesel survives Madoff and heart bypass
When Elie Wiesel emerged from quintuple heart bypass surgery, still wired to monitors, he immediately started writing a book about the ordeal — "in ...
US team yet to discuss Vonn's request to race men
Lindsey Vonn wants to challenge the men's downhill skiers in a World Cup race next month, though her wish still needs the support of the United States ...
Jews in France fear wave of attacks
The gunshots outside a synagogue and the grenade that shattered the windows of a kosher grocery spread fear into the streets — but caused little ...
France boosts security at religious sites
France is boosting security at Jewish and other religious sites after blanks were fired at a synagogue and police accused a suspected cell of radical ...
Afghan war enters 12th year
Nobody wants a repeat of the bloody ethnic fighting that followed the Soviet exit from Afghanistan in the 1990s — least of all 32-year-old Wahidullah ...
"Critical mass" key to affirmative action case
Walking across the South Mall, or scanning the football stadium's 100,000 seats on game day, University of Texas admissions director Kedra Ishop sees ...
Striking SAfrican miners find strength in numbers
Carrying a piece of paper threatening him with eviction from a workers' hostel, Robert Asanda pointed to thousands of fellow striking miners who had ...
South Africa's Tutu wins $1M award
A billionaire's foundation says it will give anti-apartheid hero Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa an award for "speaking truth to power" that ...
Study: Race-neutral admissions can work
As the Supreme Court revisits the use of race in college admissions next week, critics of affirmative action are hopeful the justices will roll back ...
Justices open big term with new human rights case
The Supreme Court plunged into its new term Monday with a high-stakes dispute between businesses and human rights groups over accountability for ...
Central figure in Miss. integration defies labels
James Meredith is a civil-rights icon who hates the term "civil rights." It's as if civil rights were somehow set apart from — well, rights. "When it ...
Divided town challenges Myanmar's democracy hopes
There are no Muslim faithful in most of this crumbling town's main mosques anymore, no Muslim students at its university. They're gone from the ...
Another big Supreme Court term kicks off Monday
When last we saw the chief justice of the United States on the bench, John Roberts was joining with the Supreme Court's liberals in an unlikely lineup ...
Syrian rebels launch broadest push yet for Aleppo
Rebels on Friday pressed their broadest assault yet to drive President Bashar Assad's forces out of Syria's largest city, activists said, with fierce ...
Slave settlements winning rights in Brazil
Luiz Pinto was seemingly everywhere on the patio of his family's hillside home as diners tucked away the last of their pork and beans and a band sent ...