It's always nice to start a new chess year with a rush of momentum from the one just past, so we focus this week on some of the big winners from December, traditionally a very crowded time on the global chess calendar.
Police are investigating the death of an American Airlines flight attendant who was found with a sock in her mouth in a hotel room near Philadelphia International Airport.
A convention of Satanists slated to begin Friday in Boston will be met with prayer, not protests, from Catholics and evangelicals, spokespersons for the religious communities say.
Protesters disrupted the annual fundraising banquet held by the Capitol Hill Pregnancy Center at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington Thursday. While local police helped remove the demonstrators, no arrests were made.