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The suit accuses school officials of gross negligence for allegedly ignoring multiple warnings that the boy had a gun on the day Abby Zwerner was shot and seriously wounded in January.

A magistrate judge is wrestling with whether a U.S. Navy veteran accused of disorderly conduct and other charges should be detained pending trial. He was arrested near the Obama residence last week.

President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus, often referred to as Europe's last dictator, claimed a sixth term in an election this week that much of the world sees as fraudulent.

The man suspected of using his vehicle to crash through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wis., on Sunday had his first court appearance. Darrell Brooks Jr. is accused of killing six people.

The daily effects of strong winds, large waves, as well as rising sea levels — which are fueled by human-caused climate change — are causing beaches on the Outer Banks to wash away.

Wisconsin Governor Thommy Thompson is trying an xperiment in state-controlled welfare reform. Marge Pitrof (PIH-troff) of ember station W-U-W-M in Milwaukee reports on the state's new "work not elfare" pilot program. The new system will give welfare recipients two years to ind and maintain employment or risk the loss of all state assistance.

Daniel talks with a new young poet - Matthew Rohrer - whose first book is called "A Hummock in the Malookas" (W. W. Norton and Company). Rohrer's surrealist poetry gives life to the thoughts and feelings of inanimate objects - like a bridge, a fork, a mop. Following the Rohrer interview is a song by the Baltimore group 'Three Pigs Cafe' called 'The Thank-you Song'.

Historian and author NELL IRVIN PAINTER. She is a Professor of American History at Princeton University. She's written a biography of the ex-slave and fiery abolitionist who was born Isabella Van Wagenen and rechristened herself Sojourner Truth. "Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol." (W.W. N

The idea of one nation publicly apologizing to another is a relatively recent development in international diplomacy. Robert Siegel talks about it with Elazar Barkan, chair of the cultural studies department at Claremont Graduate University and author of The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and Negotiating Historical Injustices. (4:00) The Guilt of Nations is published by W.W. Norton & Company.

Robert talks to Seymour Martin Lipset, author of "American Exceptionalism: A Double Edged Sword." (W.W. Norton & Company) Lipset says that many of the characteristics that Alexis de Tocqueville described as uniquely American still exist in our society today and continue to make the United States different from other countries. But Lipset notes these characteristics have a negative side, too.