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NFL falls leave 1 fan dead, 2 hurt TERRY COLLINS Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- NFL opening day excitement was tarnished with the death of one fan who fell from a pedestrian overpass outside the big game in San Francisco, and injuries to two others from falls inside the Indianapolis...

By Sarah Kliff and Lena H. Sun Every month, a hundred or so people crowd the lobby of the Arlington Free Clinic, clutching blue tickets to enter a health-care lottery. Uninsured and ailing, they hope to be among the two dozen who hit the jackpot and are given free care. Some might think the...

By Michael S. Rosenwald The push by 50 western Virginia counties to secede in 1863, forming West Virginia at the height of the Civil War, was led by a charismatic store-clerk-turned-lawyer who famously urged his supporters: “Cut the knot now! Cut it now! Apply the knife.” West Virginia was...

WASHINGTON – NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Jealous, who is credited with boosting the finances and helping to stabilize the nation's largest civil rights organization, said Sunday that he plans to step down at the end of the year. The Baltimore-based National Association for the...

What Bill O’Reilly’s apology means By Erik Wemple, Published: August 30 at 10:14 am A fully cornered Bill O’Reilly last night issued a bold and full-throated apology for a rather consequential error from his Wednesday night broadcast. In a chat with pundit James Carville, O’Reilly stated...

BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) -- A 911 call released Friday provides a dramatic account of a tragic joyride by an 8-year-old boy in his mother's car as he swerved through traffic, turned around at a convenience store and eventually slamming into a light pole, killing his 6-year-old...

U.S. spy network’s successes, failures and objectives detailed in ‘black budget’ summary By Barton Gellman and Greg Miller U.S. spy agencies have built an intelligence-gathering colossus since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, but remain unable to provide critical information to the president...

If anybody's interested in what's going on. . . I'll leave the wingers to shout as much as they like. The genesis of the whole "Voter ID" thing is the number-crunching techniques that computers make possible. Both sides are well aware that the young, the poor, and minorities tend to vote...

By Billy Kenber Nidal Malik Hasan faces a possible death sentence after being found guilty Friday of killing 13 people and wounding dozens more when he opened fire at Fort Hood army post in Texas in November 2009. Hasan, 42, a U.S.-born Muslim who acted as his own attorney, was convicted of...

From an op-ed by Eugene Robinson, liberal columnist. . . Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) the Canadian American who appears to be running for president, has grabbed headlines and air time by being the loudest advocate of an alleged third option: Congress could refuse to fund Obamacare, thereby...

The March was coming, and on 30th Street NW, near Rock Creek Park, people were talking about “troublemakers coming to town;” Charles Nalls was just a kid, but he remembers that. He remembers his neighbor, an FBI agent, talking about Martin Luther King Jr. as “a communist and an agitator.” The...

Op-ed from the Washington Post. Lots of blather. Here's the key paragraph. . . The United States should be using its own resources to determine, as quickly as possible, whether the opposition’s reports of large-scale use of gas against civilians are accurate. If they are, Mr. Obama should...

The price Gina Gray paid for whistleblowing By Dana Milbank President Obama, in his news conference this month, said that Edward Snowden was wrong to go public with revelations about secret surveillance programs because “there were other avenues available for somebody whose conscience was...

Sordid details spill out in rare court-martial of a general on sex charges By Craig Whitlock FORT BRAGG, N.C. — It was an illicit and volatile love affair that spanned two war zones and four countries. The married general couldn’t stay away from a captain on his staff. She fell hard for her...

Yet another racial handbag fight, but this time it's two Democrats. Gansler said rival Brown relying on race in Maryland governor’s contest By John Wagner Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler told a group of campaign volunteers last month that Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown, his chief...

Deported veterans: Banished for committing crimes after serving in the U.S. military By Kevin Sullivan Hermosillo, Mexico — Milton Tepeyac, who served eight years as a U.S. Marine, scrapes by on $3 an hour in this northern Mexican city, where he has lived since the U.S. government deported...

Man dies after fall from upper deck during Braves baseball game in Atlanta By Associated Press ATLANTA — A man who fell more than 60 feet from an upper-level platform at Atlanta’s Turner Field onto a parking lot during a baseball game died Monday night, police said. Atlanta police...

Surge of brain activity may explain near-death experience, study says By Meeri Kim It’s called a near-death experience, but the emphasis is on “near.” The heart stops, you feel yourself float up and out of your body. You glide toward the entrance of a tunnel, and a searing bright light...

Religious family survives being lost at sea GREG MOORE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) -- A northern Arizona family has survived being lost at sea for weeks after an ill-fated attempt to leave the U.S. over what they consider government interference in religion. Hannah Gastonguay and her family...