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After achieving much acclaim in 1951 for her five-panel painting "Tribute to the American Working People," Honore Sharrer removed herself from the art scene, continuing to paint in a realist...

Myanmar's Nobel Peace Prize-winning democracy advocate, Aung San Suu Kyi, will go on trial Monday amid signs that, one way or another, the country's military rulers intend to force her...

Former Vice President Dick Cheney famously spent much of the past eight years in undisclosed locations and offering private advice to former President George W. Bush. But past was not...

L. William Seidman, 88, who led the federal response to the savings and loan crisis of the late 1980s as chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., died of complications...

The explosive videotape that has thrown Guatemala into crisis features a lawyer, very much alive, wearing a coat and tie, sitting at a desk. In a voice calm and clear,...

The explosive videotape that has thrown Guatemala into crisis features a lawyer, very much alive, wearing a coat and tie, sitting at a desk. In a voice calm and clear,...

Angelos C. Demetriou, an internationally known architect, city planner and urban designer who worked on projects to revitalize the Georgetown waterfront in Washington, D.C., as well as designs for the...

Robert Choate Jr., 84, a Boston Brahmin and self-styled "citizen lobbyist" who in the 1960s and 1970s played a vital role in exposing malnutrition in America and was best remembered...

Think honeymoon, and certain destinations come immediately to mind: Hawaii, Italy, Tahiti, St. Lucia, Mexico, France, Bermuda, to name a few. For some, being at a Sandals in Jamaica with...

Pakistan's prime minister told the nation Thursday that the armed forces were being "called in to eliminate the militants and terrorists" who have forcibly occupied part of the country's northwest,...