MEXICO CITY -- Barely a quarter-century ago, Mexico's all-powerful presidents could run any of the nation's 31 governors out of office at will. Then the pendulum began to swing. In the last decade, the power of governors grew to such levels that ...
WASHINGTON -- At a news conference in a rainy Rose Garden on Thursday, President Barack Obama and the Turkish prime minister had weighty matters to discuss -- the bloody civil war in Syria, a disastrous Syrian refugee crisis and Turkey's strained ...
WASHINGTON -- The unauthorized disclosure of a counter-terrorism operation in Yemen last year compromised an exceedingly rare and valuable espionage achievement: an informant who had earned the trust of hardened terrorists, according to U.S. ...
SAN DIEGO -- In the ocean off Coronado, a Navy team has discovered a relic worthy of display in a military museum: a torpedo of the kind deployed in the late 19th century, considered a technological marvel in its day.
But don't look for the ...
CHICAGO -- Her family too poor to care for her, Jacqueline Goldberg was placed in a children's home at age 10.
Seven decades later, Goldberg had the kind of money that allowed her in 2006 to put cash deposits down on two condos in Donald Trump's ...
NEW DELHI -- The disaster caused shocking loss of life among young, mostly female garment workers, awoke the conscience of a nation, spotlighted dismal working conditions and spurred loud calls for construction and labor reform.
So far, that ...