NEW YORK -- California has been trying to reform how it educates teachers for more than a decade, and some of its ideas have become a model for the rest of the country.

But the vast majority of teacher preparation programs in the state are still ...

BEIRUT -- Violence erupted in the Lebanese city of Sidon Tuesday afternoon, as supporters and opponents of the militant group Hezbollah traded artillery and small-arms fire in response to an attack on a prominent Sunni Muslim opponent of the ...

WASHINGTON -- The director of the National Security Agency testified Tuesday that the government's massive surveillance program helped thwart more than 50 terrorist "events" worldwide since Sept. 11, 2001, including a planned bombing of the New ...

MONTREAL -- Montreal Mayor Michael Applebaum resigned Tuesday, one day after his arrest on corruption charges.

Applebaum, 50, said he could not remain mayor while defending himself in court, Canadian news reports said.

He faces 14 criminal ...

DETROIT -- In a course reversal, Chrysler Group LLC said Tuesday it will recall 2.7 million Jeep Grand Cherokee and Jeep Liberty SUVs as requested by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

NHTSA said earlier this month that those ...

ISTANBUL -- Turkish anti-terrorism police detained scores of people in overnight raids, Turkish media reported Tuesday, a day after a minister warned that the government might deploy the army to end nearly three weeks of protests.

Eighty-four ...