Balanced News Blog

Voters in Denver, Colorado approved making their city the first in the US to legalize small amounts of marijuana.

Newly-released e-mails show former FEMA director Michael Brown discussing his wardrobe during the crisis caused by Hurricane Katrina.

The Senate on Thursday sent a $100 billion food and farm spending bill to President Bush that includes a two-year delay on labels telling grocery shoppers where their meat comes from.

The federal government has finished moving its most sensitive weapons-grade nuclear material from a Los Alamos National Laboratory technical area to more secure sites, a lab spokesman said Thursday.

The European Union’s watchdog agency, the European Commission, says it’s going to talk informally with the governments of the EU’s 25 members about reports that the CIA set up secret prisons in Eastern Europe.

The Islamic Society of Boston has charged a local Israel advocacy group with defamation and conspiring to violate its civil rights in a lawsuit filed in Suffolk County Superior Court Oct. 31.

Canadian counter- terrorism investigators have dismantled a suspected terrorist cell in Toronto whose members included an al-Qaeda-trained explosives expert, the National Post has learned.