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Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick accepted a plea agreement, stepped down from office and will serve jail time. He pleaded guilty to two felony obstruction charges stemming from a scandal involving a cover-up of an alleged affair with his former top aide.

The death toll from Friday’s earthquake now tops 2,900.

For the first time in the report's 12 years of research, the U.S. didn't make it into the Top 20 list of the happiest countries.

Taxes are due by mid-April, paperwork has likely built up over the winter and if you want to get on top of it all, it's time for a tidy-up.

Several top U.S. government officials are meeting with leaders in Mexico.

The University of Illinois system has hired State University of New York Vice Chancellor for Research Timothy L. Killeen as its next president. The...

Israel has unleashed repeated military offensives in the Gaza Strip but has never permanently suppressed Palestinian rocket fire. We look at what is, and isn't, different this time.

As local produce makes its way into stores and farmers markets, Here & Now resident chef Kathy Gunst wants to know: What’s in season?

Kellogg's has opened a cereal bar near New York City's Times Square. It's part of a strategy to energize a sagging cereal business by tapping into nostalgia while creating a refined dining experience.

In this country at the tip of the Arabian Peninsula, the nutrition-packed palm-tree treat is essential to tradition, sustenance and the economy — and has been for hundreds of years.