WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will travel next week to Asia with the centerpiece of his planned focus on the region still in limbo amid opposition from his own party and thorny tangles with powerhouse Japan over trade.
The White House has ...
SEATTLE -- Just before dark on the drizzling day, the long line of trucks came back. Windshield wipers clicking, headlights beaming, there were firetrucks, aid cars, flatbed trucks with bulldozers and dump trucks. Dozens of them moved slowly along...
LOS ANGELES -- Four years after he became the face of municipal greed, Robert Rizzo broke his long silence Wednesday in a Los Angeles courtroom and asked a judge for mercy.
The former administrator of the L.A.-area city of Bell was pale and baggy...
LOS ANGELES--Scientists have replicated one of the most significant accomplishments in stem cell research by creating human embryos that were clones of two men.
The lab-engineered embryos were harvested within days and used to create lines of ...
SEOUL, South Korea -- Twenty-five people have been confirmed dead in the sinking of a South Korean ferry, authorities said Friday.
The coast guard said another 271 people were still missing, the Yonhap News Agency reported.
"It seems like bodies...
SEATTLE -- A veteran Washington sheriff's deputy is under criminal investigation over an allegation that he helped his wife work as a prostitute, according to two sources familiar with the inquiry.
The King County Sheriff's Office is conducting ...