PARIS -- A court in Paris on Thursday grilled International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde over her role in a large payout to a businessman in 2008, when she was France's finance minister.
Lagarde is suspected of arranging arbitration that...
MEXICO CITY -- Mexican authorities have confiscated five boxes containing about $7 million in cash allegedly embezzled by the former treasurer of the government of the south-eastern state of Tabasco.
State Attorney General Fernando Valenzuela ...
GRAPEVINE, Texas -- Thursday's vote on whether to lift the ban on gay youths in the Boy Scouts of America could symbolize a cultural shift.
Texas businessman Barry Price was so disturbed by the prospect that he joined a protest Wednesday, picking...
SEATTLE -- Even after repeated deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, Maj. Robert Marshall, an Air Force Special Operations pilot from Mercer Island, Wash., has rarely been content to stay at home.
Instead, he has hungered to climb mountains.
On ...
FORT WORTH, Texas -- The drama traditionally has begun a few days before the opening performance of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, when the young competitors first convene in Fort Worth.
At what is known as the draw party, the ...
SEATTLE -- The two had known each other less than three weeks when they found themselves inside helicopters about to land off a Cambodian island, and were easy targets for a firestorm of Khmer Rouge bullets and rocket-propelled grenades.
One ...