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  • Rice celebrates a gang truce with Nana Alejandres and Bo Taylor, two chieftains who became friends. In the background: activist Harry Belafonte and former NFL great turned activist Jim Brown, whose Amer I Can Foundation works with gangs.
    Connie Rice: Conscience Of The City
    In Power Concedes Nothing, civil rights attorney Connie Rice describes brokering peace between the Los Angeles Police Department and minority populations.
  • Newt Gingrich at the opening of his Florida campaign headquarters in Orlando, Friday, Jan. 13, 2012.
    Gingrich Asks SuperPAC To Correct Or Pull 'King Of Bain' Romney Movie, Ads
    Barely a day has gone by without Newt Gingrich complaining about the inaccuracy of ads run against him by a superPAC supporting Mitt Romney. Now that an anti-Mitt Romney film bought by a pro-Gingrich superPAC has been criticized for inaccuracies, Gingrich asked that they be fixed or taken down entirely.
  • Winter Weather Grounds Some Travelers
    Winter weather is making travel difficult in parts of the county. The blizzard is making its way through the lower plains.
  • N.C. Regulator Tapped To Handle $25B Mortgage Deal
    Joseph Smith Jr. has been chosen to oversee the multibillion-dollar national mortgage settlement announced earlier this week. Smith is described as a man who understands the plight of the homeowner without forgetting what makes a successful banking industry work.
  • Sarah Ryan, left, and Shelby Knox, with Change.org arrive at the Apple store at Grand Central to deliver petitions asking Apple to change its manufacturing practices.
    Protesters At Apple Stores Demand 'Ethical' Products
    The protesters delivered a petition with 250,000 signatures at six stores worldwide.
  • Peng Liyuan, the wife of Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, sings during a July 2007 performance celebrating the 80th anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army of China.
    Chinese VP's Wife Shows Off Vocal Pipes, Stripes
    "Peng Liyuan has been touted now as sort of the Carla Bruni of China," says one music critic. She's regularly featured on Chinese television's blockbuster Spring Festival Gala, and she's also a major general in China's People's Liberation Army.
  • This pesto originated in the wilds of a Pittsburgh backyard.
    Taming Those Wild, Stinging Backyard Greens Into Dinner
    A Pittsburgh food writer offers a lesson in making pesto out of stinging nettles and garlic mustard — springtime greens often considered weeds.
  • Do Campaign Ads Seem More Negative This Year? It's Not Just You
    A new analysis of TV ads so far this election cycle finds that 70 percent of the messages have been negative — a trend spearheaded by the heavily financed superPACs supporting the candidates. At this point in the 2008 election, 91 percent of TV ads were positive.
  • Egyptian presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh is welcomed by supporters upon his arrival at a meeting north of Cairo, on April 26. He was formerly a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, but was kicked out of the organization.
    Political Rift Widens Between Egyptian Islamists
    Egypt's presidential voting starts May 23, and two of the leading candidates are Islamists. One is a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the other was recently kicked out of the group.
  • What Science Fiction Books Does A Futurist Read?
    Science fiction's job is to give us a map of where we're headed. From Jules Verne to William Gibson, sci-fi authors describe their visions of the future, and how people might live in it. We ask Intel's futurist for his list of favorite sci-fi books.
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