Yasui fought for civil rights
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Relatives of a civil rights attorney being honored posthumously this week with a Presidential Medal of Freedom for challe...
Letters sent to governors about vetting process
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is assuring governors that refugees who come to the United States in its resettlemen...
[naviga:h3]Drugmaker merger will lower tax rate[/naviga:h3]
Pfizer and Allergan are joining in the biggest buyout of the year, a $160 billion stock deal that will create...
WASHINGTON — Austin Kiplinger, the longtime chairman and editor in chief of a financial publishing company that bore his name, has died, his son said. He was 97.
A promi...
EUREKA, Calif. — A red panda that went missing three days ago from a zoo on California’s far north coast has been safely located and returned to her home in Eureka.
The ...
Conditions make travel treacherous
A deep freeze set in across the Midwest on Sunday with low temperatures forecast in the single digits and a few below zero, turning the...
For the first time, scientists have witnessed planets being born.
The two — or possibly three — protoplanets are in orbit around a young sunlike star that is about 430 l...
HARRISBURG — An Amish man turned heads as he whizzed by fellow runners at a recent marathon — not because of his speed but because of his unusual racing attire.
Twenty-t...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Hillary Rodham Clinton is proposing a tax credit to help people deal with the rising costs of health care, the first in a series of tax benefits the Dem...
People in 6 states are now infected
NEW YORK — An outbreak of E. coli linked to Chipotle that originated in the Pacific Northwest has spread south and east and has now in...
