The FBI is investigating two bombings that targeted university scientists, the latest in a rash of attacks against biomedical researchers who experiment on animals, authorities say.

A wind-whipped wildfire threatened several homes in the Santa Cruz Mountains on Thursday, forcing some evacuations.The blaze, first reported around 5:30 a.m., had grown to about 1,000 acres by midmorning, according to the California Department of...

Bolivia’s largest state voted Sunday on a sweeping autonomy referendum that leaders said would forge “a new Bolivia,” defying leftist President Evo Morales who called the vote unconstitutional.Only minor scuffles were reported during the politically...

Voters in Bolivia’s largest state are likely to pass a sweeping autonomy referendum Sunday, dealing a blow to the country’s leftist president and deepening an entrenched political conflict.Santa Cruz state leaders are pushing the referendum in a bid to...

The wealthy white governor stood beneath a giant statue of Jesus and promised freedom to the tens of thousands cheering him on _ freedom from a llama herder-turned-president who reveres the Indian earth goddess Pachamama.”Autonomy! Autonomy!” the crowd...

Residents of Bolivia’s wealthiest province marched by the thousands Friday to the country’s busiest airport, heeding their governor’s call to retake it from troops sent in by President Evo Morales. Soldiers retreated to a section of the airport, but a...

Fidel Castro insists Ernesto “Che” Guevara could never have been taken prisoner 40 years ago if his gun hadn’t malfunctioned. But the retired Bolivian general who led the mission to capture him says the Argentine revolutionary was hardly a heroic...

Miguel Roda fires four shots into the palm trees and imagines a civil war.”We will spill our last drop of blood, comrades!” he shouts to a few dozen supporters gathered in a city plaza. “We will defend Santa Cruz inch by inch, street by street and...