Abbie Fentress Swanson

President Barack Obama is meeting with Spain's Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero today in what might be the beginning of a new diplomatic relationship.

A $200 million interdisciplinary science building is headed for Columbia University.

In Russia today, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has made "considerable progress" with Moscow on a new strategic arms treaty.

The Senate Finance Committee will vote today on whether or not to approve President Obama's $829 billion health care reform package.

Three years after it first expressed interest, the Whitney Museum of American Art will finally move forward with building a museum on Manhattan's West Side.

Federal officials have arrested Louis Armando Peña Soltren, a man accused of hijacking a 1968 flight who they've been trying to track down for nearly 41 years.

The homers that Alex Rodriguez and Jorge Posada hit Sunday at the Minneapolis Metrodome didn't just mean victory over the Minnesota Twins. They mean the Bronx Bombers will head to the American League Championship Series.

The last of the Nobel prizes in Economics has been awarded today to Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson.

Forty one people were killed Monday at a market blast near the Swat Valley in Pakistan, according to the Associated Press.

Malaysia's government is hoping to slow its country's spiking divorce rate by offering two-night island and beach resort vacations for couples whose relationships are on the rocks.

Golf and rugby will join trampoline, synchronized swimming and badminton as summer Olympic sports.

"Frasier" TV star David Hyde Pierce will play the Adagio from Widor’s Symphony No. 5 this Sunday on an organ that his family donated the money to rebuild in his native Saratoga Springs.

President Barack Obama, 48, said that he was "both surprised and deeply humbled" when he learned that he had been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize this morning.

It's no secret that more low-income American families than ever before are getting foreclosure notices. But there's a new problem on the horizon, one that's making it even tougher for foreclosed famlies to navigate the nation's housing courts. There's a national shortage of lawyers to represent them.

Republicans Dispute Senate's Findings —

Last night, the Congressional Budget Office finally weighed in on President Obama's proposed health care plan, and came back with a startling finding: the proposal would actually reduce the federal deficit by $81 billion over the next ten years. That's a shot in the arm for Democrats, but some Republicans are disputing the Senate Finance Committee's findings.

Pakistan Questions U.S. Aid —

The United States Congress wants to triple the amount of aid it gives to Pakistan. But there's controversy in Pakistan's Parliament about the $1.5 billion annually Pakistan would receive from America, especially about the terms the U.S. has attached to its aid. In a statement Wednesday, the Pakistani military said the conditions may violate Pakistan's sovereignty.