Three years earlier, Tony had told Jessica he was writing "a biography of sorts." At the time, Jessica said, she'd already been through years of therapy addressing the abuse. She'd even confronted her father about it, but each time, she said, he brushed it off as her problem and "no big deal."

Finding her father's book so spare in its details of his life with her, her older sister Kath...

Prince Charles and Camilla to Visit U.S. on First Overseas Tour

Nov. 1 (Bloomberg) -- The U.K.'s Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, and his wife, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, arrive in the U.S. today on their first joint official overseas trip since they married in April.

Charles, heir to the British throne, and Camilla will fly to New York and head straight for Ground Zero, a ...

Methodist Church council defrocks openly lesbian minister

Connecticut archdiocese to pay $22 million in abuse suit

Environmentalists sue over reopening of New Orleans landfill

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - A state Republican lawmaker said Monday that he plans to draft a consitutional amendment to counter last week's Alaska Supreme Court decision to grant public employee benefits to g...

Good God?By Mary Zeiss StangeThere is a signal moment in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22, when his anti-hero Yossarian is having an argument with his mistress, Lieutenant Scheisskopf's wife. The insanity of war setting the context, they are disputing which of them is the better atheist. He throws at her all the standard arguments, which boil down to the dilemma thateither God created and/or co...

What's a parent to do?By Janet Kornblum, USA TODAYWant to know whether your teen is blogging? Ask her. Experts say parents should tell their teens that they're going to read their blogs before doing it. (Teens wear their hearts on their blog )

"I've had parents come to me who've read their kid's blog and see scary things and now they don't know what to do with the information," says...

Judge won't dismiss R. Kelly sex chargesCHICAGO (AP) - Singer R. Kelly is a step closer to trial after a judge refused Friday to dismiss charges in a three-year old case against him for allegedly engaging in videotaped sex acts with an underage girl.

Kelly has pleaded not guilty to 14 counts of child pornography.

Cook County Judge Vincent Gaughan rejected defense arguments that pro...

All criminals in COPS are innocent until bludgeoned to death in a court of law.

I love watching TV Sunday nights in Japan. Sunday night TV in Japan offers the best TV anywhere; not only do I get to watch TV from all over the world, I get to watch the ultimate in maniacal reality TV from the United States of America: COPS. I love to sit there and drink several beers or Happoshu and watch t...

"There's no reason why money spent on natural-disaster relief should not compete with spending in other areas of government. If the relief spending is truly more necessary than other programs in the budget, then those less essential programs should be pared back to make room for it." -- Stephen Slivinski

"All Americans must tell blacks the truth. It was blacks' moral poverty -- not thei...

There is a signal moment in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22, when his anti-hero Yossarian is having an argument with his mistress, Lieutenant Scheisskopf's wife. The insanity of war setting the context, they are disputing which of them is the better atheist. He throws at her all the standard arguments, which boil down to the dilemma thateither God created and/or condones evil (making God a rat...

Human trafficking becomes an elusive target in the U.S.LOS ANGELES (AP) - Florencia Molina's personal hellhole was a dressmaking shop on the outskirts of Los Angeles. She worked there up to 17 hours a day, seven days a week, and lived there, too, without the option of showering or washing her clothes.

Other victims of American-style human trafficking have had very different venues for o...