The Washington Post

Declaring himself "America's first Pacific president," President Barack Obama opened his trip to the region Saturday by asserting that the future of the American economy depends more than ever on...

James Lilley, a longtime CIA operative in Asia who served as ambassador to China during the Tiananmen Square crackdown and was regarded as one of the most pragmatic voices on...

John O'Connor III, 79, an Arizona lawyer and civic leader who became active in Washington's social and charitable circles after his wife, Sandra Day O'Connor, became the first woman on...

Gene Cohen, an impish geriatric psychiatrist who championed the idea that people past retirement age have untapped stores of creativity and intellectually rigorous skills in their later years, died Nov....

Esther Hautzig, 79, whose memoir of growing up in exile in Siberia, "The Endless Steppe," has become a classic of children's literature, died Nov. 1 at a New York City...

The biggest frustration facing many doctors is the dearth of swine flu vaccine for their patients. But a small cadre remains skeptical about the government's unprecedented immunization campaign, citing doubts...

If you are an emetophobe, you probably tried hard to avoid watching (or even listening to) the footage of Falcon Heene, the boy who didn't get into that helium balloon,...

House Democratic leaders pushed with mounting confidence Friday toward a historic vote on expanding the nation's health care system, and President Barack Obama joined an intense last-minute lobbying campaign to...

The recession is apparently prompting more women to try to delay having babies, according to the first survey aimed at documenting the effects of the economic downturn on childbearing. The...

The 177 Republicans in the House of Representatives plan to unanimously oppose health care legislation that would constitute the biggest expansion of insurance to Americans in decades, illustrating the huge...