WASHINGTON — After patiently waiting his turn to enter the congressional debate on child tax credits, U.S. Rep. Artur Davis heard his name called by the Democratic leader controlling the floor of the House of Representatives. Getting in more words in one minute than many can in five, Davis, ..

WASHINGTON – The only cancer center in the Rocky Mountain region will use its share of a $5.7 million grant to focus on increasing the involvement of elderly patients in drug tests. The University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Aurora was among six research hospitals chosen Wednesday ..

In a hearing before a Senate committee Wednesday, Democratic and Republican senators called for greater international involvement in Iraq, including a NATO commitment. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, made the request to Defense Secretary Donald ..

Washington -- Human rights, democracy and good governance are the crucial concepts to guarantee freedom and to prevent the emergence of terrorism, experts told the House Committee on International Relations on Wednesday.Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., said regimes that do not respect human rights are ..

WASHINGTON – Al Sami cheered and fellow hunger strikers danced on the sidewalk in front of the French embassy Wednesday, celebrating the expected release of an Iranian opposition leader from French custody. The 50-year-old Denver man, who consumed nothing but water and iced tea for a week, ..

WASHINGTON – There's a golf hole with a narrow, gravel road straddling an undulating green guarded by a fiercely deep bunker, ready to engulf even a slightly errant shot. The rough is gently bending in the breeze as raindrops sprinkle the humps and bumps of a fairway laced with stacked ..

WASHINGTON -- The beavers, seals and river otters at the National Zoo have two new neighbors -- and Dolly Parton helped them move in.Tioga and Sam are the headliners of the new Bald Eagle Refuge exhibit that opened to the public Wednesday, also with Parton's help. The eagles came from the American ..

WASHINGTON – A majority of Americans continues to support the decision to attack Iraq despite believing the Bush administration was not fully truthful in its presentation of evidence of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, a new poll revealed. Only 32 percent said the United States ..

Washington – Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., and Rep. Dave Weldon, R-Fla., urged the Senate this week to act quickly to ban all human cloning, a measure strongly supported by President Bush and passed in February by the House of Representatives. “Our silence and failure to act is ..

Washington – A Gaelic singer, a boat-builder and a petroleum engineer shared their tales of the sea and their Scottish heritage this week as part of the Smithsonian Institution's annual Folklife Festival, which this year features Scotland, Mali and the Appalachian region of the United States. ..