May 9th, 2008 - Seattle Times
She's darting across the country like a full-fledged presidential candidate, but the conversation within Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's circle...
May 9th, 2008 - Seattle Times
The United Nations blasted Myanmar's military junta on Friday, calling its refusal to let in foreign aid workers "unprecedented" as survivors of a devastating cyclone waited for food, shelter and medicine.
May 9th, 2008 - Seattle Times
Democrats' plans to help hundreds of thousands of homeowners struggling with rising subprime mortgage rates and plummeting house values could be sidetracked by President Bush's threatened veto and the backing of many congressional Republicans.
May 9th, 2008 - Seattle Times
Since they first walked the planet, humans have either buried or burned their dead. A new option is generating interest: dissolving bodies...
May 9th, 2008 - Seattle Times
Myanmar's junta seized U.N. aid shipments Friday meant for a multitude of hungry and homeless survivors of last week's devastating cyclone, forcing the world body to suspend further help.
May 9th, 2008 - Seattle Times
Since they first walked the planet, humans have either buried or burned their dead. A new option is generating interest: dissolving bodies...
May 9th, 2008 - Seattle Times
Iraqi police said they captured Abu Ayyub al-Masri — also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir — the leader of the Sunni insurgent...
May 8th, 2008 - Seattle Times
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's greatest gift may be her ability to remain upright and smiling as chaos and chagrin surround her. On what probably was...
May 8th, 2008 - Seattle Times
Myanmar's isolationist regime blocked United Nations efforts Thursday to airlift food aid to cyclone survivors, U.N. officials said, as the hungry fought for what little food was available and drank coconut milk for lack of clean water.
May 8th, 2008 - Seattle Times
Americans rank last in a new National Geographic-sponsored survey released Wednesday that compares environmental consumption habits in 14...
May 8th, 2008 - Seattle Times
When British naturalist George Shaw received a weird specimen from Australia in 1799 — one with a mole's fur, a duck's bill and spurs...
May 8th, 2008 - Seattle Times
Relief supplies from the United Nations began arriving in Myanmar Thursday, but U.S. military planes loaded with aid were still denied access by the country's isolationist regime five days after a devastating cyclone.
May 8th, 2008 - Seattle Times
There isn't anything metropolitan about this tiny unincorporated town in southwest Wyoming, where a few single-family homes and a volunteer fire station stand against a skyline of snowcapped mountains.
May 8th, 2008 - Seattle Times
Myanmar's military regime allowed in the first major international aid shipment Thursday, but it snubbed a U.S. offer to help cyclone victims struggling to recover from a tragedy of unimaginable scale.
May 8th, 2008 - Seattle Times
The House has passed a housing aid plan to provide 0 billion in refinanced mortgages for struggling homeowners. President Bush says he'll veto the bill. It passed 266-154 with support from 39 Republicans.
May 8th, 2008 - Seattle Times
The House on Thursday passed a massive homeowner rescue plan to provide cheaper, government-backed mortgages to half a million debt-ridden borrowers and bolster an economy crippled by the housing crisis.
May 7th, 2008 - Seattle Times
Travel and visa obstacles on Tuesday hampered aid deliveries to the estimated 1 million people in Myanmar believed to be homeless after...
May 7th, 2008 - Seattle Times
About 3,500 American soldiers are scheduled to leave Iraq in the coming weeks, the U.S. military announced, as part of the Pentagon's overall...
May 7th, 2008 - Seattle Times
At least three people were wounded Tuesday as Palestinian security forces, trained in a U.S.-funded program, battled gunmen in a northern...
May 7th, 2008 - Seattle Times
Dozens of San Diego State University students were arrested and six fraternities were suspended after a drug investigation found that some...