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WASHINGTON – Today’s cold, dry climate on Mars evolved about 3.5 billion years ago, ending a period when that planet had seen moist conditions, research indicates. An international team of scientists developed a timeline for Mars’ geological evolution, reporting in Friday’s issue of the journal Science that the planet had …

YAKIMA, Wash. – The United Farm Workers of America and one of the nation’s largest labor recruiters have reached an unprecedented agreement to improve wages, benefits and working conditions for guest workers brought to the United States for farm work. The agreement follows months of heated UFW criticism of the …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Four more American soldiers were killed in Iraq, the U.S. military said as the U.S. death toll for the month surpassed the total for all of March. More than 40 Iraqis also died, including at least 22 in a car bombing near a Shiite mosque northeast of …