WASHINGTON -- On Monday, the U.S. Senate is scheduled to vote on the confirmation of Patricia Millett, an experienced Supreme Court advocate, as a judge on the nation's second-most-powerful court, tipping its balance of power to Democrats for the ...
RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif. -- Not long ago, the Republican National Committee did something out of the ordinary: The party issued a formal statement marking Diwali, an important Hindu holiday.
"Diwali and the lighting of the Diya celebrate the ...
LOS ANGELES--First came love. Then came marriage.
And the baby carriage? Meh.
"Just the two of us is awesome," said Sara Tenenbein, a 30-year-old blogger and consultant living with her husband in Los Angeles. "Maybe we don't need to add more ...
TUCSON, Ariz. -- For months, even in the 100-degree-plus desert heat, Alejandro Castear always grabbed a heavy sweater when he left his southern Arizona home.
The sweater wasn't to wear, he says, but to fend off chilling memories of his time in a...
WASHINGTON -- How should states decide if someone convicted of a crime has an intellectual disability, when the answer means life or death? This spring the Supreme Court will wade back into these murky waters, 12 years after it took the death ...
LOS ANGELES -- When the Air Force looked for ways to save money last year to deal with declining budgets, officials decided to halt work on a high-flying, long-endurance spy drone built in Palmdale, Calif., by defense giant Northrop Grumman Corp. ...