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Today's Supreme Court confirmation process was shaped by what happened at the hearings for Clarence Thomas 20 years ago. The hearings also changed America's political, judicial and cultural landscape.

Maybe there won't be many long-lasting repercussions from this battle between millionaires (the players) and billionaires (at least some of the owners) over how to divide millions of dollars.

The Senate is expected to turn down the president's jobs package. In Liberia, new Nobel laureate President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf seeks reelection.

The 23-year-old Jones (real name Benjamin John Francis Fodor) was arrested by Seattle police early Sunday, after he allegedly doused some people with pepper spray. He says he was breaking up a fight.

Maikel Nabil Sanad was not imprisoned, beaten or tortured until he criticized the post-Mubarak military leaders, his father says.

A nonpartisan group hoping to phase out and eliminate all nuclear weapons brings together leaders from the right and the left this week at the Reagan Library.

The deal would free Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit who was captured in 2006 by Palestinian militants and about 1,000 Palestinian prisoners.

The World Health Organization reports that cases of the disease are declining thanks to several, worldwide efforts. The world isn't out of the clear yet, though.

The White House is inviting states to apply for waivers from the No Child Left Behind law. The proposal would cut some slack to 85 percent of the nation's better schools. But advocates for minority and special education students fear their students will fall off the map.

Back in 2009 when he campaigned to be New Jersey's chief executive, Gov. Chris Christie got help from Mitt Romney who visited the Garden State to campaign for his fellow Republican. On Tuesday, Christie returned the favor by publicly endorsing Romney's bid to be the Republican Party nominee.