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Despite the politics of strategic partnership, the U.S. and China sometimes seem to inhabit two different planets. In the new comedy Chinglish, Tony-Award-winning Chinese-American playwright David Henry Hwang shares a story of absurd cultural misunderstanding between these nations.

Barely 40 years ago, it wasn't uncommon for a single mother on welfare, or a patient in a mental hospital in North Carolina, to be sterilized against her will.But North Carolina wasn't alone: More than half of states in the U.S.

This spring and summer, scantily-clad women, and some men, are taking to the streets in what are called "SlutWalks."

Manhattan real estate goes for crazy prices: Condos and co-ops can cost millions.

A federal crackdown on the use of undocumented immigrant labor is expanding.

Azusa is a small, working-class college city along the train tracks in the San Gabriel Valley, just 25 miles east of Los Angeles. Federal prosecutors say for years, the Varrio Azusa 13 gang has monopolized sales of cocaine, heroin and meth here."

The U.S. Justice Department is stepping up its scrutiny of troubled police departments.