MADRID – The Mexican writer Jose Emilio Pacheco has won the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's highest literary honor, Spain's Culture Ministry said Monday. The 70-year-ol...
TACOMA, Wash. – Two women were charged Friday with helping the man accused of killing four Washington state police officers, and his sister was arrested at the women's court hearing. ...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – All anyone needs to know about Tiger Woods off the golf course is what he named his yacht. Privacy. Woods gave up a big piece of that when he left S...
WASHINGTON – Senate Democratic liberals are seeking expansion of two large federal programs, Medicare and Medicaid, in exchange for dropping a government-sold insurance option from health care legisl...
ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Even as he heralded the first unemployment drop in months, President Barack Obama began putting the finishing touches Friday on a fresh job creation proposal he's planning to send t...
WASHINGTON – Defense lawyers are alleging misconduct by Justice Department prosecutors in the case against one of five Blackwater security guards accused in the killings of 17 Iraqis in Baghdad. ...
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. – Tiger Woods still isn't talking. Now he's not playing, either. Woods withdrew Monday from his own golf tournament, citing injuries from a car crash near his F...
LOS ANGELES – Ben Affleck, Katie Holmes, rapper 50 Cent and "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" co-stars Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning are taking their acts to the Sundance Film Festival. ...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The outcome of the Backyard Brawl was in the hands — or more specifically on the foot — of a redshirt freshman and Tyler Bitancurt wasn't about to mess up his perfect night. ...
FORWARD OPERATING BASE AIRBORNE, Afghanistan – U.S. service members in Afghanistan said Wednesday that President Barack Obama's decision to send 30,000 more troops offered hope that they can go home...
NEW YORK – The couple who crashed President Barack Obama's first state dinner are peddling their story to broadcast networks for hundreds of thousands of dollars, a television executive says. ...
LOS ANGELES – Dramas featuring "Twilight" star Kristen Stewart, Natalie Portman and "The Sopranos" co-stars James Gandolfini and Edie Falco are in the hunt for awards at the Sundance Film Festival. ...
LOS ANGELES – James Cameron was thinking beyond the big screen when he created the alien world of Pandora. The "Titanic" director worked in tandem with video game developer Ubisoft Montreal on the ga...
LOS ANGELES – For most of the last century, the Disney 'toon heroine was as white as, well... Snow White, the studio's first feature-film superstar, who marked her debut in 1937's "Snow White and ...
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. – Tiger Woods still isn't talking. Now he's not playing, either. Woods withdrew Monday from his own golf tournament, citing injuries from a car crash near his Florida home. Hi...
WINDERMERE, Fla. – Tiger Woods finally gave his side of the story Sunday — on his Web site, not to police — and took the blame for an "embarrassing" car crash that gave him cuts, bruises and public s...
SAN FRANCISCO – Tim Lincecum has been so dominant in his first two full major league seasons that even his top bosses don't know how he can get much better. Two NL Cy Young Awards, a ...
BEIJING – When the apocalypse comes, China will save the world. Or at least that's how Chinese audiences are interpreting "2012," Hollywood's latest blockbuster disaster movie. ...
WASHINGTON – A Republican senator asserted Tuesday during a rancorous floor debate that President Barack Obama's health care overhaul will shorten the lives of America's seniors by cutting Medicare...
WASHINGTON – Suitably opaque, Section 2006 takes up only a few dozen lines in a sweeping health care bill that runs to 2,074 pages and mentions neither Sen. Mary Landrieu nor her state of Louisiana. ...
