WASHINGTON - Native American and Alaskan women are suffering rates of rape and sexual violence nearly three times higher than the US national average, Amnesty International says in a new study released on April 24.

VANCOUVER, Canada -- After a career gathering intelligence on the stormy front lines of global Islam, Graham Fuller is not eager to disrupt the pastoral, small-town life he and his wife, Prue, have been enjoying the past few years in Squamish.