In a lengthy front-page story last week exploring President Obama's use of drone strikes in countries including Pakistan and Yemen, the New York Times reported that the president had "embraced a disputed method for counting civilian casualties that did little to box him in."

(CNN) -- Call it the summer slide, the seasonal slump, the brain drain or the summer slowdown. Just don't call it new: The two-month period when students lose some of their academic edge has been observed for over a century.

(CNN) -- It's looking like the digital divide may have less gray hair than it used to -- but it's still a big issue for U.S. seniors.

(CNN) -- Brenda Vazquez is a 29-year-old elementary school teacher in Matamoros, Mexico. Laura Castro lives across the border in Brownsville, Texas. She is a 32-year-old housewife who helps her husband manage several stores. They share one thing in common: Both say they were delivered by midwives in south Texas, but pressured by U.S. Border Patrol agents to deny their U.S. citizenship.

SAN FRANCISCO -- The last time Lerone Matthis was released from the Division of Juvenile Justice in April 2008, he feared he had reached bottom.

NEW ORLEANS -- Good news seems hard to find these days, but New Orleans has plenty right now. The most recent test scores for the city's schools show students steadily improving. Widely considered one of the nation's worst school districts for years, New Orleans' schools have been showing remarkable gains.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A poet-historian representing a younger generation of writers will soon take office on Capitol Hill, overlooking the politicians, in a lesser-known post enshrined in federal law.

(CNN) -- President Barack Obama on Friday strongly rejected Republican accusations that his administration deliberately leaked classified information about a U.S cyberattack on Iran's nuclear centrifuge program.

(CNN) -- The Florida A&M Board of Trustees issued a vote of no confidence against the university's president Thursday in the wake of last year's hazing death of a school band member.

(CNN) -- Florida's Republican-appointed secretary of state issued a tough rebuke to the United States Justice Department late Wednesday, writing his state's effort to remove non-U.S. citizens from voter rolls was both consistent with federal law and necessary to protect against fraud.