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The bill would change existing law to say that 14- and 15-year-olds can work until 9 p.m. all year long, including on school nights.

Ohio and Kentucky leaders hailed the announcement as a big step toward reality for the long-awaited project.

Tuesday marked 26 consecutive days in Phoenix, Az. with a temperature over 110 degrees, and it doesn't look like it will let up any time soon.

The country's Global Affairs department did not specify which states, but is advising Canadian travelers to check the local laws for their destination before traveling.

A group of Big Ten presidents has begun discussing the possibility of adding more West Coast schools to the conference if the Pac-12 continues to crumble, according to two people familiar with the conversations.

Climate change makes deadly floods, like what happened in Libya, more likely. Floods in China, Greece and Brazil in recent weeks underscore the growing danger.

A Little Lumpen Novelita is an intoxicating tale of a teenage girl who struggles to stay afloat. It cements Roberto Bolaño's place as the most commanding Latin American writer of the last few decades.

The Bush Administration unveiled its plan Thursday for overhauling the vast regulatory system to prevent another crisis in the nation's credit markets. It said banks, mortgage companies, investors and credit-rating agencies all share in the blame, and it proposed that mortgage brokers be licensed and added new voluntary guidelines.

Chief Justice John Roberts spends the night in a small Maine hospital after suffering a seizure and falling at his vacation home. Cleared after a neurological exam, Roberts, 52, is expected to go home Tuesday.

Chicago fast food tycoon and political fundraiser Antoin Rezko goes to trial this week on corruption charges. Rezko gave money to Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, along with several other state politicians. Pundits wonder how that will affect Obama's campaign, if at all.