When she was 10, Shyima Hall was smuggled from Egypt into the U.S. as a slave to a family in Irvine. In Montebello on Thursday, she became an American citizen.

Shyima Hall, 22, moments after becoming a U.S. citizen. She lives in Beaumont and is deciding whether to finish a college degree or apply for the local police force. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times / …

A senior executive at a technology company that makes monitoring software secretly installed on 141 million cellphones said Thursday that the FBI approached the company about using its technology but was rebuffed. The disclosure came one day after FBI Director Robert Mueller assured Congress that agents "neither sought nor obtained any information" from the company, Carrier IQ.…

The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday will release the findings of its investigation into allegations of excessive use of force and biased policing by the Seattle Police Department.

By Mike Carter and Steve Miletich…

By KIMBERLY HEFLING - AP Education Writer

WASHINGTON - Nine states will share $500 million in grant money won in a high-profile competition intended to jump-start improvements in often-overlooked early childhood programs, The Associated Press has learned.

The winners to be announced Friday at the White House are California, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina,…

By MIKE FRANCIS - The Oregonian

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, WASH. - In the next war, one of the battlescapes is likely to include a brick building shaded by fir trees, not far from Interstate 5, north of Olympia. The two-story building, with office space downstairs and shared computer work spaces upstairs, is home to the Washington National Guard's 262nd Network Warfare Squadron, a unit assigned to provide cyberdefense and…

By GENE JOHNSON - Associated Press

SEATTLE - King County authorities and the Washington State Public Stadium Authority have agreed to stop harassing people collecting signatures outside the Seahawks football stadium for an initiative that would legalize and tax recreational marijuana in the state.

One of the collectors, Benjamin Schroeter, was arrested Nov. 13 after he refused an order to stop collecting signatures for Initiative 502 in a public area outside the stadium where fans…

The latest big viral success online takes the Occupy Wall Street movement to a place that most wouldn't expect it to go: A celebration of the smart, attractive women taking to the streets in search of economic justice. Or at least that's how The Hot Chicks of Wall Street blog is framing it. Here's what's racking up the web hits on Tumblr right now.

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Washington state education officials know a lot more about your kids than they ever knew about you. They can now track a child from kindergarten through college enrollment and soon will be able to tell you everything about every child who has gone to school in Washington from preschool through their first job.

By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP…

Rhodes Scholars named for 2012

The 32 American students chosen as Rhodes Scholars for 2012, listed by geographical region:

District 1:

Helen E. Jack, Hanover, N.H., Yale University

Emma F. LeBlanc, Manchester, N.H., Brown University

District 2:

Elizabeth W. Butterworth, Auburn, Mass., Princeton University

David S. Poritz, Amherst, Mass, Brown University

District 3:

Miriam Rosenbaum,…

By Erik Kirschbaum, Reuters November 18, 2011 11:06 AM

 

A German Jewish lawmaker spoke on Friday of the…

It has been the stuff of science fiction for generations - a wearable exoskeleton that gives human beings super powers.

And now the U.S. Army is one step closer to realising that dream after it began testing its latest hi-tech war fighting gadget.

The appropriately named Human Universal Load Carrier, or HULC, is a wearable exoskeleton that allows soldiers to…

Actor-director Mel Gibson will pay the mother of his toddler daughter $750,000 under a settlement disclosed Wednesday that allows her and the child to remain in their Sherman Oaks…

The state liquor board is modernizing its retail operations while voters consider whether to abolish its role selling alcohol.

By Melissa Allison

Seattle Times business reporter…

By JOELLE TESSLER and PETE YOST

Associated Press

By ADAM GOLDMAN, Associated Press – 10 hours ago 

NEW YORK (AP) — From an office on the Brooklyn waterfront in the months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, New York Police Department officials and a veteran CIA officer built an intelligence-gathering program with an ambitious goal: to map the region's ethnic communities and…