(Reuters) – An armed prisoner was on the run early on Tuesday after escaping from a hospital in a northern Virginia close to Washington where a shot was fired during a struggle with a guard, police said. The prisoner, identified as Wossen Assaye by the Fairfax County Police Department, broke free from a private security […]

(Reuters) – A suspect who sparked a massive arson fire last year that gutted a multi-story apartment complex under construction in Los Angeles was captured on surveillance tape reviewed by authorities, the Los Angeles Times reported on Monday. The video showed the suspect parking a car on the 110 Freeway before walking into the building […]

Defense of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is expected to intensify on Tuesday with his lawyers' first full day of calling witnesses. They have contended that Tsarnaev's brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was the driving force behind the bombing and that Dzhokhar played a secondary role in it and in the fatal shooting of a […]

A host of political luminaries attended the dedication Monday of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute on Columbia Point, right next to the presidential library of Teddy’s older brother, President John F. Kennedy.

GOP legislative leaders say they are working to clarify the religious-objections law.

A month ago, it seemed inevitable: a massive global oversupply of crude oil production would overwhelm storage tanks in Oklahoma and fill supertankers off Singapore. Now, there are growing signs that the U.S. oil market can avoid the doomsday scenario in which it runs out of room to stockpile surplus crude, a development that oil […]

A senior official of China’s Baosteel Group, the parent of Baoshan Iron & Steel , is being investigated for “serious disciplinary violations”, China’s corruption watchdog said on Tuesday. The graft watchdog, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), named the official as Vice President Cui Jian but gave no further details in a short statement. […]

Starbucks Corp (SBUX.O) and Danone SA (DANO.PA) on Tuesday will begin selling a smoothie line at more than 4,300 U.S. Starbucks shops as part of a Greek yogurt partnership that will also include yogurt parfaits and ready-to-eat yogurt to be sold by grocers. The rollout comes as Starbucks seeks to double food sales and as […]

As stock market investors cheer Beijing’s latest bid to boost the country’s ailing housing sector, Chinese bankers are gritting their teeth over the risks they face in further relaxing lending rules to home buyers. Alarmed by persistent weakness in the property market and its increasing drag on the economy, policymakers said on Monday they were […]

Philips (PHG.AS) has agreed to sell an 80.1 percent stake in its lighting components division for $2.8 billion to Go Scale Capital, a technology fund that will seek to build the company’s automotive LED business. The deal announced on Tuesday is a prelude to an even bigger strategic move for Philips: spinning off its main […]