Lou Jing was born 20 years ago in Shanghai to a Chinese mother and an African-American father. Lou Jing's background became fodder for national gossip, sparking a vitriolic debate about race across a country that, in many respects, can be quite homogenous

I need your help. You may have heard that in a blatantly political move to prevent this vote the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington last month threatened to cut their social service programs if the bill passed.

IDAHO FALLS - New information released Saturday reveal the identities of the two men involved in the Friday night shooting in a local Wal-Mart parking lot.

The Associated Press reports that actress Brittany Murphy was declared dead Sunday morning at Los Angeles's Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

TYLER, Texas -- A 16-year-old former juvenile detainee is accused of stabbing a high school teacher to death with a butcher knife. Another teen was convicted of killing a roofer during a 30-minute robbery spree.

The state's Native American tribes, universities and local governments are some beneficiaries of appropriations bills that lawmakers have hustled to approve in recent days over the objections of conservatives

Chicago police today issued an alert for a 15-year-old girl missing from Freeport, Ill., who was last seen in Chicago Wednesday

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GALLUP, N.M. (AP) - Navajo silversmith Jackie Platero has been selling her family's handmade jewelry for 18 years. These past two years have been the most difficult. Platero and other jewelers and jewelry traders say the nation's economic woes

SALT LAKE CITY -- Three Navajo tribe members charged with a vicious beating and sexual assault were ordered Monday to remain in custody because they pose a danger to the community