The Dubai firm that was to have managed six ports in the U.S.says it will turn control of those ports to a U.S. based firm.

A freak storm in 1888 is recounted by author David Laskin.

A roundup of the week with the Wall Street Journal's John Harwood.

A former member of fugitive Whitey Bulger Boston crime gang says he once trained a rifle on one of Bulger's biggest critics.

They're in season and simple to prepare. Kathy Gunst goes out shrimping with Maine chef Sam Hayward.