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WASHINGTON – Immigration rights supporters gathered Monday for a march past the White House in an event they had hoped would be a celebration of Senate legislation to put illegal immigrants on the path to citizenship. After that measure collapsed under election-year politics, the march turned into a protest against …

DETROIT – Proof, a member of rap group D12 and a close friend of Eminem, was shot to death early Tuesday at a nightclub along Eight Mile, the road made famous by the 2002 film that starred Eminem and in which Proof had a bit part. Proof, whose real name …

ROME – Judges began checking tens of thousands of contested ballots Thursday, as Italian politics was thrown into turmoil after Premier Silvio Berlusconi‘s demand for a recount of rival Romano Prodi‘s narrow parliamentary election victory. Official returns gave Prodi’s center-left coalition the majority in both houses of parliament in the …