Jesse Mckinley New York Times

The name would ring a bell for every viewer of the 2010 hit film "The Social Network".

The day before he allegedly shot his father, the sandy-haired 10-year-old boy showed off a prized possession to a visitor. It was a thin leather belt emblazoned with a silver insignia of the Nazi SS."Look what my dad got me," the boy said shyly, perched on the living room stairs, one of the few quiet spots in a house with five children.A little mor...

There are images of waves throughout Crescent City: on the signs marking the city limits, on the logo of its credit union and on the facade of Tsunami Lanes, where this city's local rollers come to bowl. But the waves capturing most of the attention in this most northern of California cities are in the harbor, where the remnants of last week's surp...

A tsunami emanating from the massive earthquake that hit Japan on Friday sent seven-foot waves into the Hawaiian islands, but appeared to have caused no major damage in Hawaii or along the West Coast. Peter Carlisle, the mayor of Honolulu, said Friday that the threat had subsided substantially and that coastal highways had reopened on the island of...

Mohamed Osman Mohamud had seemed to be a well-adjusted American teenager: a solid student whose interests included basketball, girls and the night life at Oregon State University, where he studied engineering. But those who know him say he changed in recent months. He dropped out of school and stopped attending mosque. And, perhaps most telling, he...

When Seth Walsh was in the sixth grade, he turned to his mother one day and told her he had something to say. "I was folding clothes, and he said, 'Mom, I'm gay,' " said Wendy Walsh, a hairstylist and single mother of four. "I said, 'OK, sweetheart, I love you no matter what.' "But last month, Seth went into the backyard of his home in the desert t...

Same-sex marriage is legal again in California. Sort of.Eight days after ruling that Proposition 8 -- a 2008 voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage -- was unconstitutional, a federal judge on Thursday denied a motion to stay his decision, opening the door for untold numbers of gay and lesbian couples to wed in the nation's most populous state. But...

The name would ring a bell for every viewer of the 2010 hit film "The Social Network".

The day before he allegedly shot his father, the sandy-haired 10-year-old boy showed off a prized possession to a visitor. It was a thin leather belt emblazoned with a silver insignia of the Nazi SS."Look what my dad got me," the boy said shyly, perched on the living room stairs, one of the few quiet spots in a house with five children.A little mor...

There are images of waves throughout Crescent City: on the signs marking the city limits, on the logo of its credit union and on the facade of Tsunami Lanes, where this city's local rollers come to bowl. But the waves capturing most of the attention in this most northern of California cities are in the harbor, where the remnants of last week's surp...

A tsunami emanating from the massive earthquake that hit Japan on Friday sent seven-foot waves into the Hawaiian islands, but appeared to have caused no major damage in Hawaii or along the West Coast. Peter Carlisle, the mayor of Honolulu, said Friday that the threat had subsided substantially and that coastal highways had reopened on the island of...

Mohamed Osman Mohamud had seemed to be a well-adjusted American teenager: a solid student whose interests included basketball, girls and the night life at Oregon State University, where he studied engineering. But those who know him say he changed in recent months. He dropped out of school and stopped attending mosque. And, perhaps most telling, he...

When Seth Walsh was in the sixth grade, he turned to his mother one day and told her he had something to say. "I was folding clothes, and he said, 'Mom, I'm gay,' " said Wendy Walsh, a hairstylist and single mother of four. "I said, 'OK, sweetheart, I love you no matter what.' "But last month, Seth went into the backyard of his home in the desert t...

Same-sex marriage is legal again in California. Sort of.Eight days after ruling that Proposition 8 -- a 2008 voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage -- was unconstitutional, a federal judge on Thursday denied a motion to stay his decision, opening the door for untold numbers of gay and lesbian couples to wed in the nation's most populous state. But...