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The article reports on the conviction of a 52-year-old nanny Yoselyn Ortega for killing the 6-year-old Lucia Krim and the 7-year-old Leo Krim in the bathtub of the family's apartment wherein the nanny show regrets for killing the children.

The article reports on the disclosure of secret documents which provide detail about the numbers of U.S. citizens and residents who are included in a federal government database of people who are suspected of having links to terrorism and are on the terrorist watch lists.

The grisly photographs of American soldiers posing with the body parts of Afghan insurgents during a 2010 deployment in Afghanistan were the source of a dispute between The Los Angeles Times and the Pentagon lasting weeks. Two of the 18 photographs given to the paper were published Wednesday by The Times over fierce objections by military officials who said that the photographs could incite violence. The officials had asked The Times not to publish any of the photographs, a fact that the defense secretary, Leon E. Panetta, reiterated on Wednesday as the images spread across the Internet. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After toppling Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr. in 1970, serving 20 terms in Congress and surviving censure last year to nimbly gain his 21st, Charles B. Rangel is no pushover. But don't mess with his wife, Alma, er, Mrs. Rangel, either. Among the 500,000 pages of presidential papers released last week by the Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library and Museum was a letter dated June 7, 1971, from Mr. Rangel (see also bottom of post), then a freshman congressman, to the first lady, Pat Nixon. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It may be a first in the annals of government secrecy: Declassifying documents to mark the anniversary of their leak to the press. But that is what will happen Monday, when the federal government plans to finally release the secret government study of the Vietnam War known as the Pentagon Papers 40 years after it was first published by The New York Times. At first blush, it sounds like the release of one of the worst-kept secrets in history -- finally unlocking the barn door four decades after the horses bolted. The study, after all, has already been published by The Times and other newspapers, resulting in a landmark First Amendment decision by the Supreme Court. It has been released in book form more than once. But it turns out that those texts have been incomplete: When all 7,000 pages are released Monday, officials say, the study can finally be read in its original form. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In light of how long it can take to close a refinancing or mortgage these days -- especially considering how many paper documents are involved in the process and could potentially get lost, delaying the process further -- we wondered whether a mortgage cloud of sorts exists at any banks. Specifically, we wondered why banks don't just scan all mortgage documents the minute they get them and then put them into an internal cloud of sorts that any employee could get access to. That would also help prevent lost documents. To find out, we checked with Chase and Bank of America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Ibrahim al-Amine, the hawk-eyed editorial chairman of Al Akhbar, describes his newspaper's founding ambitions this way: ''We wanted the U.S. ambassador to wake up in the morning, read it and get upset.'' He succeeded. Earlier this month Al Akhbar became the only Arab newspaper to obtain its own substantial batch of WikiLeaks cables and gleefully cataloged various embarrassments to the region's kings, princes and politicians. Soon afterward, the paper's popular Web site came under a cyberattack that became a story in its own right, and provided more free publicity. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Haitian-American hip-hop singer Wyclef Jean, left, filed papers on Thursday to run for president of Haiti. Several hundred supporters cheered as he arrived by motorcade at an electoral office in the capital, Port-au-Prince, still largely in ruins from the Jan. 12 earthquake. ''The United States has Barack Obama, and Haiti has Wyclef Jean,'' he shouted. His candidacy must still be approved by a review board to verify that he meets constitutional requirements, including having lived in Haiti for the five years before the election and never having held foreign citizenship. Mr. Jean, who was born in Haiti but raised in Brooklyn, has said his appointment as a roving ambassador by President Rene Preval exempts him from the residency requirement. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It came as a surprise this month to Wang Jianwei, a graduate engineering student in Liaoning, China, that he had been described as a potential cyberwarrior before the United States Congress. Larry M. Wortzel, a military strategist and China specialist, told the House Foreign Affairs Committee on March 10 that it should be concerned because ''Chinese researchers at the Institute of Systems Engineering of Dalian University of Technology published a paper on how to attack a small U.S. power grid sub-network in a way that would cause a cascading failure of the entire U.S.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The logistics of distributing any newspaper are daunting, but imagine not knowing, even a few days in advance, where the paper will be printed, who will deliver it, where the readers will be or how much danger they will be in. That is what Stars and Stripes faces in a new military deployment, and helps explain why the first copies did not reach Haiti until Saturday, 11 days after American troops began to arrive there. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Internal Revenue Service suffered a setback late Wednesday in its crusade against corporate tax shelters when an appeals court ruled that Textron, the maker of Cessna airplanes, did not have to turn over internal papers detailing its use of aggressive tax shelters. The decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston may thwart efforts by the I.R.S., begun in 2002, to force large companies to disclose ''soft spots'' in their aggressive tax planning. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

John Y. Simon, a Civil War scholar whose mammoth effort in editing of the papers of Ulysses S. Grant created a new standard for the organization of historical documents, died on Tuesday in Carbondale, Ill. He was 75. His wife of 51 years, Harriet Simon, confirmed his death. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

With electronic health records seen widely as a way to make medical care better and possibly cheaper, it is disturbing how slowly they are being adopted by American physicians. If this country does not accelerate the conversion from paper to modern technologies, many of the gauzy promises of health care reform made by politicians and health planners will become irrelevant. The bad news about electronic health records was gathered in a survey of 2,700 practicing physicians led by researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital, with financial support from the federal government and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The results were published online by The New England Journal of Medicine. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WHEN Sporting News first hit the presses in 1886, there was no World Series, no National Football League, and no Cracker Jack, much less the Internet, mobile score updates or jeering sports bloggers. In its heyday -- the 1950s and '60s -- it was the authoritative paper for serious sports fans, publishing comprehensive box scores and earning the nickname the bible of baseball. Alas, the world of sports media is not a forgiving place. Along came USA Today, ESPN and, of course, the Web, bringing instant access to all manner of statistics and athletic chatter. Sporting News -- a weekly -- fell behind the times and started bleeding money. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Relying on an antiquated provision of the New York City Charter, a civil rights lawyer filed papers in State Supreme Court on Friday requesting a judicial hearing on City Council spending practices that have recently come under intense scrutiny. The hearing, known as a summary inquiry, would not determine guilt or innocence, but would merely lay out the facts surrounding the case for public review. Federal prosecutors have been examining a longtime Council practice in which members appropriate discretionary funds to nonexistent organizations and channel the funds to other programs without mayoral approval. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A plan to use only paper ballots in Colorado in this November's election, which was announced with bipartisan hoopla in January to replace the state's troubled electronic voting machine system, died quietly in a state legislature committee room on Thursday. Opponents of the plan said it was no longer needed, because what was broken then is now fixed. But supporters said that questions of reliability and security of the electronic voting and vote-counting machines remained unresolved, and could yet resurface before November. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that a hand-written letter from Lee Harvey Oswald, who was arrested in the killing of former U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy, addressed to Texas Senator John Tower has been discovered with the papers of the latter. In the letter addressed to Tower, Oswald complained that Soviet Union would not grant him an exit visa to the U.S.

The article presents information about the 1973 political strategy document of Karl Rove, political advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush. Rove's paper was found among the 78,000-page documents of the administration of former President Richard M. Nixon. In his nine-page memorandum to Anne Armstrong, then advisor to Nixon, Rove talked about his strategy to strengthen the Republican Party. The Nixon documents were released in the second week of July 2007.

The article reports that several national newspapers across the U.S. are cutting back their employees and focusing less on recent happenings in Washington. Newspapers are more inclined towards local news. Washington bureau chief for The Boston Globe, Peter S. Canellos, said that few years back every paper used to give priority to any official story in Washington but now the whole scenario has changed. The Dallas Morning News cut its bureau to 4 reporters from 10.

The article focuses on the benefits derived by small businesses involved in cash transaction by using remote deposit system. The system employs scanners specially designed to scan digital checks. Small businesses in the U.S. have set up systems to scan digital checks they receive from customers after the passing of a law in 2003 that gives digital check the same legal status as that of a paper check.

The article reports that the University of Chicago, Illinois has acquired more papers of Saul Bellow, an American writer.

Reports that the U.S. Department of Justice papers has scrutinized the American International Group Inc. which allegedly has helped dozens of wealthy individuals by making use of questionable tax shelters intended to shield hundreds of millions of dollars in profits from federal taxes.

Reports that across the United States, more than 1.6 million people each week who are not on subscriber rolls are being delivered copies of papers that do not cost them a cent while they are still being classified as paying customers. Payment for the newspapers by advertisers; Potential for unsolicited deliveries by rule changes the newspaper industry approved three years ago allowing so-called third party sales to be counted as part of a newspaper's total circulation; Reference to the fact that in the industry as a whole circulation has been falling for more than a decade.

Reports on the Rock Paper Scissors tournament in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Total number of participants; Rules of the game; History of the game.

Reports that a coalition of computer scientists, voter groups and state officials in the United States is trying to force the makers of electronic voting machines to equip those machines with voter-verifiable paper trails. Concerns of possible problems in tabulating electronic votes; Evidence of many malfunctions of the electronic system.

Comments on "The Times" newspaper in the United States. Role of public editor; Concept of the 'paper of record'; Progress of modern journalism.

Focuses on the capability of police to get in the way of keeping papers secret in the U.S. Release of a secret document describing omens of a catastrophic terrorist attack in 2001; Capability of political imperatives to sometimes force officials to set aside government's normal procedures for classifying and declassifying national security information; Federal rule in releasing secret information.

Reports on the dismissal of the lawsuit filed by historians challenging President George W. Bush administration's executive order restricting the release of papers of former presidents in the U.S. Expansion of the executive power; Details of the case.

Discusses how U.S. soldiers shut down the newspaper Al Hawza in Baghdad, Iraq due to claims that it printed lies about violence incited by occupying troops. Opposition from thousands of Iraqis who protested the newspaper's closing; Consideration of the assassination attempt on the Iraqi public works minister in Mosul; Plans for Al Hawza to reopen in 60 days; Increase in the anti-American sentiment in Iraq; How the paper was known to print criticisms of the U.S. from the Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr.

Reports on the controversy over the decision of former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani to send his mayoral papers to a private archivist instead of the city's Municipal Archives.

Reports on the decision of U.S. federal judge Suzanne B. Conlon to allow intelligence papers as evidence against newspaper publisher Khaled Dumeisi. Accusation that Dumeisi is spying on critics of the Iraqi government and is giving information to the Iraqi intelligence service; List of charges filed against Dumeisi.

Discusses the sale of a Russian-language daily newspaper in New York City. Background of the buyer, Vadim Z. Rabinovich, and problems he had coming to the United States to check out his purchase; Actions by Novoye Russkoye Slovo, an American-trained young Ukrainian sent by Rabinovich to check out the paper, such as the implementation of new cost-cutting measures; Effects that the changes have had on the current staff, such as the resignation of two of the reporters; Move of the page-design functions from the U.S. to the Ukraine.

Reports on the defense of Howard Dean on the decision to leave his office as governor of Vermont. Promotion of Dean of his campaign book; Criticisms on Dean from two of his opponents for the Democratic nomination; Plan of Judicial Watch to file a lawsuit to gain access to the secret official papers of Dean.

Highlights the agreement of Pulitzer prize winning novelist William Kennedy to give his personal papers to the State University of New York at Albany.

Reports on the appeal made by "The Seattle Times" newspaper regarding a court ruling that prevents the paper from dissolving its operating arrangement with "The Seattle Post-Intelligencer" in Washington.

Discusses the findings of Stanford economist Michael J. Boskin, who released a paper suggesting that the federal government had $12 trillion coming that no one had counted. Implications of the finding; Boskin's admission that his equations contained an error; Background on Boskin, who was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under U.S. President George Bush; How several economists found flaws in Boskin's forecast of a tax windfall; Boskin's defense of his main point.

Evaluates allegations that the New York City Parks and Recreation Department, when it was led by Commissioner Henry Stern, fostered a racially hostile work environment for black and Hispanic employees. Legal papers that contend that Stern made racially derogatory remarks and tolerated offensive symbols; Affidavit from former Parks Department employee Daniel Weizmann; Number of people who could be involved in the class action; Character of Stern.

Looks at the past issues and history of the periodical 'The Horace Mann Record,' a student paper from the Horace Mann School in New York City.

Reports on the decision of a House committee to overturn the executive order issued by U.S. President George W. Bush regarding the release of presidential papers.

Reports the popularity of the printed version of college news papers in the U.S. over their online versions.

Reports on the decision of Delta Air Lines and US Airways to charge for paper tickets in the U.S., as of June 2, 2002.

Reports on the move of former New York City Mayor David N. Dinkins to donate his official and personal papers and correspondences to Columbia University.

Reports on the reaction of historians to the executive order of U.S. President George W. Bush prohibiting them access to presidential papers.

Reports on the release of the presidential papers and documents during the administration of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California.

Reports on the departure from office of New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani. Creation of the Rudolph W. Giuliani Center for Urban Affairs Inc., which controls his official papers, a job normally done by public archivists; Details of other instances in which he appeared to be suppressing information.

Reports that a group of archivists and historians in New York City have angrily denounced the transfer of former city mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's mayoral papers out of city custody.

Reports on the defense made by former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Guiliani regarding the removal of his mayoral papers from the custody of the city's Department of Records and Information Services.

Discusses the disclosure made by Arthur Andersen that it had destroyed documents related to its audit of Enron Corporation. Statement that while there are no universal rules governing how soon an accounting firm can destroy audit documents, most accountants maintain the papers for several years; Question of what was contained in the documents destroyed by Arthur Andersen after the United States Securities and Exchange Commission began a formal investigation of Enron's collapse.

Describes the shreds of office documents that blanket the streets of lower Manhattan in New York City, following the terrorist attack which destroyed the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Examples of documents, including a banking statement, a cellular phone bill, a resume and a blank check; How the paper debris was blown all over the city, into the open windows of apartments and a school; Question of whether the individuals whose names appeared on the paperwork survived the attack.

Reports that New York Governor George E. Pataki has signed a legislation on July 13, 2001 that will save New York City from having to use paper ballots in the September 11, 2001 primary election.