Aug. 6—Two rival communities come ­together to combat environmental disaster in a new children's book co-authored by Hawaii's Maya Soetoro-Ng, a well-known peace ­activist and academic. Two rival ...

Barack Obama’s sister has not emerged in public since the death of their grandmother two days before her brother’s historic presidential election, but in a post-election e-mail to close friends, Maya ...

NEW YORK -- President Obama's half-sister has a book deal, for a children's picture story. Maya Soetoro-Ng's "Ladder to the Moon," based in part on Obama's mother and other family members, will be ...

BOSTON — I have been thinking about Ann Dunham’s other child, the girl child, the one she had with her second husband. Maya Soetoro-Ng is now a 36-year-old teacher who describes herself as "half white ...