May 8, 2008 -- Barack Obama's campaign on Wednesday sought to increase pressure on Hillary Rodham Clinton to wrap up the drawn-out Democratic nomination race as it mapped out a general-election strategy that will involve early campaigning in battleground states that have already held primaries.

May 8, 2008 --  Indiana's controversial photo identification rule may not have made a major dent in the state's high turnout, but it did frustrate a small group of voters more accustomed to divine law.

May 8, 2008 --  A Jewish astronaut greets Israel from space. Revelers try to set a record for the most people singing a national anthem. To celebrate turning 60, Israel is staging fireworks, air force flyovers and a birthday bash for anyone born on the day the Jewish state was founded.

May 8,2008 -- A Cuban woman who gained worldwide acclaim for a blog that offers stinging criticism of the Communist regime was honored Wednesday with a Spanish journalism award — in absentia.

May 8, 2008 --  It seemed for a while as if R. Kelly's day in court might never come. But after six years of repeated delays, jury selection is set to begin Friday in the Grammy-winning R&B singer's trial on child pornography charges, prompted by a videotape allegedly showing Kelly having sex with a girl as young as 13.

May 8, 2008 --  Nearly two years after Star Jones left "The View" on rocky terms, the 46-year-old TV personality has criticized former boss Barbara Walters for writing about her.

May 8, 2008 --  Shiite supporters of Hezbollah and Sunnis backing Lebanon's U.S.-allied government clashed on the streets of Beirut with automatic rifles and grenades on Thursday.

May 7, 2008 --  Barack Obama won a resounding victory in North Carolina after the worst two-week stretch in his campaign. And Clinton, fueled by a burst of energy from her convincing win in Pennsylvania last month, barely eked out a win in Indiana despite her full-throated populist appeal in that largely blue-collar state.

May 7, 2008 --  I want to start by congratulating Senator Clinton on what appears to be her victory in the great state of Indiana.

May 7, 2008 -- The Bush administration requested the change, which would erode the role of the Agriculture Department in deciding the safest location to conduct research involving one of the world's most contagious animal viruses. The virus does not infect humans.

May 7, 2008 --  The U.S. military put people and airplanes into position to work on any relief effort for cyclone-hit Myanmar, as officials awaited word on whether the Asian nation would accept such American help.

May 9, 2008--VIDEO: Author/film producer Tonya Lewis Lee, and her sister, sociologist Tracey Lewis-Elligan chat about motherhood, battling the career clock and biological clock, and raising girls versus raising boys.

How to preserve her stories in the age of the iPod.

Gaining wins, but losing swagger...so, why do I envy the A's?

Why jazz is hotter than it's been in decades.

May 8, 2008--How food riots in Haiti crashed my sister's wedding.

What happens when the one million Haitians abroad try to feed the 10 million Haitians at home.

May 8, 2008--Soup for the Soul: Uncle Don's double mustard greens and roasted yam soup.

May 7, 2008--Tiger Woods Syndrome notwithstanding, Obama has changed the game for good.

May 6, 2008--How the Dems pushed the black pawns off the board.

May 6, 2008--I was a chubby kid in West Baltimore. Crack addled the streets; De La refused to scowl. How the summer of '88 became my generation's greatest.

May 6, 2008--How hip-hop became my life.

May 5, 2008--When breast cancer becomes a sister act.

May 5, 2008--When it comes to black women and breast cancer, there is a thorny tangle of questions.

May 5, 2008--Not just for white women.

May 2, 2008--Why we lose by staying on the boat.

A Conversation with Laurence Fishburne

May 1, 2008--Why the Double O's are standing on shaky ground.

Obama used the black church to buttress his political credentials and then discarded the man who helped most.