The former commander of U.S. forces in Iraq praised Virginia Tech's 3,600 undergraduates Friday night for their quiet courage, dignity and poise in dealing with last month's shooting rampage that left 33 dead...

Political science Professor Stephen D. Krasner, former director of Policy Planning at the U.S. State Department, and retired Army Gen. John P. Abizaid, former commander of the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), are returning to Stanford...

The U.S. Department of Energy awarded a contract on Tuesday to a management team that includes the University of California to operate Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, one of the country's principal research facilities for maintaining America's nuclear arsenal.

Few ideas in education are more controversial than school vouchers...