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The number of illegal immigrants living in the U.S. plummeted to 10.8 million in 2009, from 11.6 million the previous year, marking the sharpest decline in years and coinciding with the economic downturn, according to a new report by the......

The pit bulls sprawled around the Riverside County Animal Control office this week were an unusually tranquil lot -- more fluffy the cat than hound from hell. Each had been sedated before its turn on the operating table to get......

by Mark Silva Vice President Joe Biden, who has served under eight presidents, for more than three decades in the U.S. Senate and now with the president, concedes that he has no expectation of achieving the sort of bipartisanship that......

Something is holding down the herring population of Alaska's Prince William Sound, and marine scientists are tailing some rather large suspects: humpback whales. Humpbacks, once hunted to near extinction, are thriving in waters fouled 21 years ago by...

PHOENIX — Federal wildlife officials plan to move a handful of endangered Sonoran pronghorns to the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge in western Arizona next winter in hopes of establishing a new population of the rare animals. The proposal by the......

An Arizona environmental group that fights to protect endangered species plans to distribute 100,000 free condoms across the U.S. beginning on Valentine's Day. The Center for Biological Diversity in Tucson says the promotion is meant to call attention...

California Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown on Tuesday waded into the controversy over a new law that aims to reduce the state prison population by saying it applies to county jail inmates but should not be read as requiring immediate, large-scale......

Many studies have documented the fact that patients of color are less likely to receive the same quality of medical care as whites, and that those differences often translate to worse health outcomes. The pattern holds up even after taking......

Prison Sounds As this was written, Caryl Chessman's date with death was still undecided. But as time was running out for him yesterday a man who was once No. 69883 in San Quentin reminiscently recalled the case of Gas House Eddy. No. 69883, now living...

HAVANA — Will all Cuban mules please stand up? Or at least raise a hoof or two. The communist government says it is facing a major mule deficit and has commissioned a census of the beasts of burden to determine......

New-car sales in North America are pretty much destined to decline no matter what, according to the Canadian economic research firm Scotia Economics. The United States and Canada have rapidly aging baby boomer populations that will buy fewer new vehicles....

The director of the U.S. Census Bureau will visit a Los Angeles elementary school Monday to kick off a national drive to promote better counting of Latino children in the 2010 census. Robert Groves and elected officials are set to......