College affordability takes center stage Friday for President Barack Obama as he makes the final stop on his road trip highlighting themes from the State of the Union address this week.

Joshua Komisarjevsky, 31, will be given a lethal injection for his role in a 2007 home invasion that killed a woman and her two daughters.

A suicide car bomber targeted a Shiite funeral procession in the Iraqi capital Friday, killing 31 people and wounding 60 others, two police officials said.

Passengers on the wrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship are expected to receive a compensation lump sum of 11,000 euros ($14,400) each, the Italian Association of Tour Operators said in a statement Friday.

David Brodwin says the Citizens United ruling has given old, moneyed industries an unfair advantage over small businesses--the drivers of economic growth.

For his efforts to protect Haitian children from parasites, Aaron Jackson was honored as a CNN Hero in 2007.

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Falling Short of the North Pole New York Times The history of 19th-century Arctic exploration is gruesome. Ice floes throttle creaky ships, men vanish into the white silence, and the North Pole remains elusive. At that time, nobody even knew if that sacred spot lay on land or sea.