Electronic Pen

Despite the hype, the solar storm expected to hit Earth on Thursday is unlikely to create much of an effect.

The cuts, which have left many low-income women with inconvenient or costly options for treatment, grew out of a plan to eliminate state support for Planned Parenthood.

A man identifying himself as the deputy oil minister, Abdo Hussameldin, appeared in a video posted to YouTube on Wednesday, and said he had left his post.

With Israel and other world powers focusing on the Arab Spring and the mounting tensions with Iran, the Palestinian issue has effectively been shelved, leaving Palestinian leaders at a loss.

The European Central Bank and Bank of England cited concerns about growth in the euro zone as reasons for keeping borrowing costs down.

When Britain bailed out the Royal Bank of Scotland in 2008, the government promised to remain a passive investor. But some employees and analysts now say the line has blurred.

Despite years of urging and oversight by American advisers, President Hamid Karzai’s government has yet to prosecute a high-level corruption case in Afghanistan.

By entering Burmese politics, Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel laureate, is increasingly being asked to propose solutions to her country’s woes rather than merely lamenting them.

James Cameron, the film director, plans to get into a capsule and plummet, alone, down nearly seven miles to the planet’s most inaccessible spot: the Challenger Deep in the western Pacific.

Mitt Romney’s high-dollar donors, lavish fund-raising events and personal wealth fuel perceptions that he is favored more by his party’s elite than by its conservative base.

The largest solar storm in five years was due to arrive on Earth early Thursday, promising to shake the globe's magnetic field while expanding the Northern Lights.

Shaukat Qadir, a retired Pakistan Army brigadier, is piecing together a decade-long parlor game among spies, soldiers and journalists, all guessing the whereabouts of the world’s most-wanted fugitive.

The heart of the president’s re-election campaign can be found in a Chicago office complex, where political strategists, data analysts and other workers search online to reconnect with supporters from four years ago.

The appraisal by the defense secretary and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff reflected increased concern about the uprising in Syria, in which more than 7,500 people have reportedly been killed.

A council monitors television and the radio to ensure that those running for office receive their fair share of exposure in France’s concentrated media world.

Two important southern primaries are leading Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich to battle each other as they try to show they can unite the party’s conservative base.

In addition to those organized against members of specific cultural backgrounds, an Alabama law center also noted a rise in antigovernment groups.

The results exposed some of the insecurities fostered by the pressure to evaluate teachers at a time of shrinking resources.

Making it clear that he does not use marijuana, Mr. Robertson, an evangelist, said he supports legalization because the war on drugs has failed.

Representative Jean Schmidt’s defeat in the Ohio primary was seen as a warning shot from the Campaign for Primary Accountability.