Weather's Wild Ride
First in an occasional series.
ABOVE THE NORTH PACIFIC - Eight miles up, in a mysterious region where the atmosphere harbors some of its most dangerous secrets, Cmdr. Jeff Hagan was taking in the ironies aboard a Gulfstream IV jet.
Giles defends report on Phila. school attacks
Retired federal judge James Giles, whose inquiry into the Dec. 3 violence at South Philadelphia High has been praised and pilloried, defended his report as "very accurate."
Obama mouthpieces are men of few words
WASHINGTON - #wanttospinWHreporters?If you're PressSec - White House press secretary Robert Gibbs' user name on Twitter - you join the powerful social-media platform and push your message across the Internet, 140 characters at a time.
U.S. experts see signs of Taliban in transition
KABUL, Afghanistan - A decade ago, when the Taliban controlled the Afghan government, their militiamen - barely motivated, untrained conscripts - tried for five years to seize control of the entire country from more moderate forces but didn't succeed, even with the help of Osama bin Laden's Arab and other foreign volunteers.
Karen Heller: A tall, cool glass of context
Time for some perspective.California is grappling with a $20 billion shortfall, forcing a drastic reduction in funding higher education. Arizona, reeling from the housing crisis, projects a 30 percent gap between state expenditures and revenues. New York is governed by chaos, mostly because nobody's governing, and faces the possibility of having a third governor in a single term.
After earthquake, displaced Haitians are still in search of shelter
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Trash and sewage are piling up at the squalid tent camps that hundreds of thousands have called home since Haiti's earthquake - and with torrential rains expected any day, authorities are not even close to providing the shelters they promised.
