SEATTLE.- Robin Held, Frye Art Museum chief curator and director of exhibitions and collections, has been named one of ten outstanding curators from art museums across the United States selected as a 2009 fellow of the Center for Curatorial Leadership (CC

THE Los Angeles Times recently reported that the number of immigrants who waived their right to plead their cases to remain in the United States shot up from 5,500 in 2004 to 35,000 in 2008. Many of the nearly 100,000 people who agreed to leave the countr

Reeling financial markets stripped copper of 60 percent of its value in only a few months, and expansion projects in Arizona, the leading U.S. copper producer, are being postponed.

Corn dogs, lemon shakeups and Chicago-style pizza all will be ready for the cast of thousands who will attend the Illinois Inaugural Gala set for Washington, D.C., the night before Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th president of the United States.

Charities across the United States are facing the same stress as many of U.S. companies, banks and other businesses, who have been under financial turbulence with their stocks plummeting on Wall Street. As their traditional business season approaches, aid