Bruce Edward Babbitt (born 1938) was governor of Arizona (1978-1987), a presidential candidate (1988), and appointed secretary of the interior (1993) in the cabinet of President Bill Clinton. Born on June 27, 1938, Bruce Babbitt was the second of six...

Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said Wednesday that she'd do away with electing judges and make prosecutors and defense lawyers interchangeable as a way of improving the U.S. justice system.O'Connor, who has spent much of her 21 months in retirement defending judicial independence,...

Today is Wednesday, June 27, the 178th day of 2007. There are 187 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:Fifty years ago, on June 27, 1957, more than 500 people were killed when Hurricane Audrey slammed through coastal Louisiana and Texas.On this date:In 1844,...

Earlier snowmelts, longer summer droughts and bigger Western wildfires on federal lands are being caused more by "climatic conditions than land management techniques," government investigators conclude.They fault the Bush administration for not providing managers of national parks, wildlife preserves and marine sanctuaries with better guidance...

Ten years after a landmark law was adopted to improve national wildlife refuges, the 96 million-acre system is neglected and undermined by political meddling and chronic underfunding, former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt said Tuesday.Babbitt, who played a key role in developing the 1997 law said...