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Every year, more than a thousand public schools across the country close, sometimes sitting empty for decades. But in the midst of a statewide housing shortage, some are finding a new purpose.

Senior officials have been deployed by the Bush administration to plead for more time for a troop surge to show results, after Congress voted in favor of a U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq. But two Republican senators have introduced a bill calling for a pullout.

Georgetown law professor Neal Katyal successfully argued the case of Salim Ahmed Hamdan before the Supreme Court, leading to a ruling that the use of military tribunals for Guantanamo detainees stood in violation of U.S. and international law. Katyal offers his reaction to President Bush's legislative proposal to address the issue.

Democrats in the House of Representatives meet Thursday to elect leaders for the upcoming Congress. California's Nancy Pelosi is set to become speaker of the House. She's endorsed Pennsylvania's John Murtha to be the majority leader. But critics have raised questions about whether Murtha is the best person to end the culture of corruption in Washington.

The V-22 Osprey crashed on a north Australian island Sunday during a multi-nation training exercise, officials said.

While our attention has been focused on Obamacare, there are rumblings of a major shift in the way companies offer private health insurance to workers. It involves what are called "private health care exchanges." These are similar to — but completely separate from — the public exchanges you've heard so much about.

The fate of the abortion rights amendment in Ohio is inextricably linked to the results that will come out this coming Tuesday.

The columnist could write like an angel — and bite like an asp. In a new biography, John Norris recounts McGrory's first big break and the proposition she received from a Democratic president.

The younger Scarry, also an illustrator, found a draft of Best Lowly Worm Book Ever! in his dad's Swiss chalet. He says all that was missing was the final art, "so that's what I did."

A new book argues that education aid, when done badly, can bring the opposite of peace.