LOS ANGELES — In the early 1950s, when Jack Larson was offered a role in a new Superman TV series, he was loath to accept. Playing the hapless sidekick of a caped superh...
Xi visits Seattle, discusses trade
SEATTLE — With his feel-good tours complete, Chinese President Xi Jinping departs Washington state Thursday for the other Washington, w...
NEW YORK — Brian Williams returned to the airwaves of MSNBC to anchor coverage of the visit of Pope Francis to the United States on Tuesday, his first day back at work f...
President to greet Francis at airport
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will personally welcome Pope Francis at the airport when he arrives for his first U.S. tour, a c...
MADISON, Wis. — Warning that the Republican presidential race has become too nasty, Scott Walker exited the 2016 campaign on Monday and urged others to quit, too, and “c...
NEW ORLEANS — Willie Mae Seaton, a chef recognized for her classic American food and fried chicken, has died.
Family friends confirmed that Seaton died Saturday. She was...
Man linked to 4 freeway shootings
PHOENIX — Soft-spoken and handcuffed, a 21-year-old landscaper insists that he is not responsible for a string of Phoenix freeway shooti...
Pastor, others take action
EAST SELMA, Ala. — The pastor and members of the congregation that wrestled a gun away from a man police say opened fired in an Alabama church ...
PHOENIX — Police arrested a man Friday for a string of seemingly random freeway shootings in Phoenix, adding that they had linked the man’s gun to four of the 11 cars hi...
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro had a rare phone call Friday ahead of Pope Francis’ impending visit to both their nations.
The White...
