Laborers from across the country have returned to their native Sichuan Province, where many elderly Chinese have refused to leave devastated - and still at risk - villages.
AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton coasted to easy victory in the Kentucky primary on Tuesday, a triumph of scant political value in a Democratic presidential race moving inexorably in Barack Obama's direction.
AP - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor Tuesday in what could be the grim final chapter in a life marked by exhilarating triumph and shattering tragedy. Some experts gave the liberal lion less than a year to live.
AP - Barack Obama is quietly planning to take over the Democratic National Committee and assemble a multistate team for the general election, the latest sign that he is putting rival Hillary Rodham Clinton and the nomination fight behind him.
Sen. Hillary Clinton tonight welcomed an "overwhelming vote of confidence" in the Democratic primary in Kentucky, but Sen. Barack Obama's gains there still allowed him to claim a majority of the pledged delegates in the race overall, according to CNN estimates. Voting is still under way in Oregon.
Sen. Ted Kennedy has a malignant brain tumor, doctors said today. One senator said the wind was taken out of the room when Majority Leader Harry Reid announced the news to his Democratic colleagues.
Efforts to close the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are at "a standstill," Defense Secretary Robert Gates told a Senate subcommittee Tuesday.