Sunday night, Pastor Frances Stafford put on a colorful African dress and matching head wrap that had been in her closet for about five years.It was just the right look for Kwanzaa.

The District was on the verge Tuesday of becoming the sixth place in the country to legalize same-sex marriage after the council gave final approval to its bill allowing the unions.

This was my first question to Nick Cannon as he warmly greeted me and my partner for an interview leading up to the screening of the Teen Nick HALO Awards at the Newseum in Washington, D.C

US President Barack Obama has invited Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to visit Washington later this year to enable them to discuss the global economic situation and regional security issues.

Regulators seized a Bremerton Wash bank late Friday as the financial crisis claimed its 33rd federally insured financial institution of 2009.The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. estimated that the failure of Westsound Bank would cost its deposit-insurance fund $108 million. Westsound is the second Washington bank to be closed by regulators so far this year.