The Supreme Court will decide whether pollution regulations must take the costs of compliance into account , not just health effects. Drawing a line against government intervention in the lives of American families, the Supreme Court today struck down a law that gave grandparents broad rights to seek court-ordered visitation against parents' wishes. The clash between the United States and Russia over missile shields reflects Cold War-era concerns about a devastating nuclear attack and different views of the world today.
Junked cars line many of eastern Kentucky's creekbeds.
Illegal dumps with milk jugs, dead animals and rusted appliances dot the mountainsides. Raw sewage straight from thousands of homes spills from pipes into streams. The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, after nine years of unprecedented studies of the universe, was deliberately slammed into the atmosphere Sunday, where it broke up and fell in a shower of hot metal to a remote stretch of the Pacific Ocean. Days after O.J. Simpson's ex-wife and Ronald Goldman were stabbed to death, the football star underwent a polygraph test that F. Lee Bailey says he stopped because it was not going well. The Detroit News.