The Amtrak dispatcher declared that our trip was cancelled. A couple people begged the driver to open the doors and let the braver souls make a break for it on foot. As tempting as the prospect seemed, I failed to pack a pair of snowshoes or a team of sled dogs, so it was probably for the best that the temptation was never really an option

"Further, although concealment is part of the anatomy of an affair, the concealment conduct in this case by Senator Ensign exceeded the normal acts of discretion and created a web of deceit that entangled and compromised numerous people, including a loyal Chief of Staff, was an abuse of the Senator's power, and raised serious issues of violations within the Committee's jurisdiction"

When I found the man who would be my mate, my friend, the one indispensable for over half a century, I knew I was fortunate. After ten years, I realized I loved this man much more than I had when I was besotted with my groom and delirious with pride in him. After forty years, I could scarcely believe how we had grown into a grafted entity like something in a prize arboretum

Behind the strike that killed Osama bin Laden on May 1st was one of the US military's best kept secrets: an extraordinary campaign by elite US soldiers to take out thousands of Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters. A six-month investigation by Frontline has gone inside the "kill/capture" program to discover new evidence of the program's impact — and its costs

Abortion Funding Bill Clears House Floor after defeating, 192-235, a motion to recommit by Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) to prevent federal officials from reviewing the the medical records of victims of rape or incest

A 23-year-old Jewish artist who fled to the south of France spending two years feverishly painting the history of her life, a sort of autobiographical operetta on paper. One year after she completed it the pregnant 26-year-old was transported to Auschwitz and killed

Concerns about the influence of industry money have prompted Stanford and University of Colorado-Denver to ban drug sales representatives from the hospital halls and bar doctors from paid promotional speaking. One area of medicine still welcomes the largesse: societies that represent specialists

The most visible shift in the political landscape since Pew Research's previous political typology in early 2005 is the emergence of a single bloc of across-the-board conservatives. The long-standing divide between economic, pro-business conservatives and social conservatives has blurred.