President Barack Obama was expected Wednesday to propose reducing the American nuclear arsenal by as much as a third, directing the Defense Department to align the United States with what the administration says are the more credible threats of the 21st century.The proposal outlined by the White House, to be detailed by Obama in a speech in Berlin, will include the maintenance of a “credible deter...

CANCUN, Mexico -- Mexican authorities arrested a former University of Southern California professor who faces sex crimes charges in the Philippines on Tuesday, just hours after he was added to the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" list.Walter Lee Williams, 64, was arrested in the southern beach resort of Playa del Carmen. The FBI said he was an anthropology and gender studies professor at the Univ...

Hundreds of people were evacuated in Arizona on Tuesday after a wind-whipped wildfire spread across 5,000 acres in just seven hours.More than 300 firefighters, along with multiple helicopters and aircraft, moved in to tackle the “extreme” blaze which started in “remote, rugged terrain” on the east side of Granite Mountain near Prescott, Arizona, officials said.It is unclear what started the fire b...

The driver Oregon police say fatally struck a man trying to dribble a soccer ball 10,000 miles from Seattle to Brazil for the World Cup has been arrested. Scott Van Hiatt, of Neskowin, Ore., was arrested Monday on a charge of criminally negligent homicide, said Lincoln City Police Chief Keith Kilian. Richard Swanson, of Seattle, planned to dribble the ball for more than a year through 11 countries...