US tries saving Taliban talks after Karzai objects
June 20, 2013Talks aimed at ending the Afghan war took a hit when President Hamid Karzai suspended negotiations with the U.S. and scuttled a peace delegation to the Taliban.
Talks aimed at ending the Afghan war took a hit when President Hamid Karzai suspended negotiations with the U.S. and scuttled a peace delegation to the Taliban.
As the West battles one catastrophic wildfire after another, the federal government is spending less and less on its main program for preventing blazes in the first place.
Philadelphia council members raised an array of concerns Wednesday at the first public hearing on this month’s fatal building collapse, which killed six.
A Lafayette-area Cub Scout pack has found a new charter home days after a church severed ties with it over the decision to extend membership to openly gay youth.
A measure that would force women seeking an abortion to submit to an ultrasound faced strong scrutiny from lawmakers Wednesday as it was presented before a legislative committee that vets health regulations in Ohio.
Ball State’s incoming freshman class is shaping up to be larger than last years, following a trend of increasing enrollment over the past five years.
An assistant professor of physics and astronomy and one of his students invented a new laser that could be used for optical technology, industry and medicine.
An alum at the University of Central Missouri will spend three years in prison and must pay more than $61,000 under the sentence he received Wednesday.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana filed a lawsuit against the BMV for the reinstatement of license plates for a group that counsels gay and lesbian youth.
A group of Indiana teachers said requiring teachers to use two sets of education standards will disrupt learning for students.
Crews across Ball State’s campus move closer to completing $500 million worth of improvements to a number of buildings and roads for the upcoming school year.
World War II survivors in both the U.S. and Europe condemned the news that a former commander of a Nazi military unit has lived in Minneapolis for the six decades.
The Obama administration has pointed to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 as a symbol of what can go wrong when America wades into Middle East conflicts.
Members have been selected for the panel to investigate the course and Ball State professor accused of teaching Christianity in the classroom.
A new report shows Indiana is struggling to make significant progress toward its goal of having 60 percent of adults earning college degrees or certificates by 2025.
Hundreds were allowed to return to their homes as firefighters watched over the smoldering ruins of a warehouse where a fire had unleashed a tower of black smoke.
At least 24 men convicted or charged based on bite marks on the flesh of victims have been exonerated since 2000, many after spending more than a decade in prison.
Over the last decade, clogged social mobility and rising economic inequality have shifted the conversation on campuses and in the country as a whole.
Paula Cooper’s death sentence at such a young age drew international protests and a plea for clemency from Pope John Paul II.
A Purdue University graduate and two former students accused of breaking into their professors’ computer accounts to change grades are facing criminal charges.
