WASHINGTON (AP): It's the biggest secret in a city known for not keeping them. The nine Supreme Court justices and more than three dozen other people have kept quiet for more than two months about how the high court is going to rule...
ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP):President Fernando Lugo's rapid impeachment and ouster by lawmakers has plunged Paraguay into crisis and unleashed a wave of criticism by fellow leftist leaders in Latin America.The former Roman Catholic bishop elected on a...
PETALUMA, California (AP):A Chinese crested's short snout, beady eyes and white whiskers earned it the title of World's Ugliest Dog at the annual contest in Northern California last Friday.Competing for fame, $1,000 and a...
BELLEFONTE, Pa (AP):For years, the children Jerry Sandusky preyed upon kept quiet about what the former Penn State assistant football coach did to them in echoing shower stalls, empty hotel rooms and the muffled confines of his basement bedroom.
PHILADELPHIA (AP):A Roman Catholic church official was convicted of child endangerment but acquitted of conspiracy in a landmark clergy-abuse trial, making him the first United States church official branded a felon for covering up abuse claims.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP):It was hard to find a happy soul at the end of the Rio+20 environmental summit.Not within the legion of bleary-eyed government negotiators from 188 nations who met in a failed attempt to find a breakthrough at the United Nations (UN)...
CANBERRA (AP):A boat carrying about 200 people capsized south of Indonesia and scores were feared drowned yesterday in an apparent attempt to reach Australia to seek asylum.
BLANTYRE (AP):An overloaded boat carrying about 60 illegal immigrants from Ethiopia capsized in Lake Malawi's wintry waters, and all aboard are feared drowned, Malawi police said yesterday.Dave Chingwalu, police...
JAKARTA (AP):An Indonesian air force plane slammed into a military housing complex and ignited a huge fireball yesterday while trying to land in Jakarta, killing all seven people aboard, as well as two toddlers and their nanny in a home....
CENTENNIAL, Colorado (AP):Michelle Obama began her second day of political campaigning in the West by reflecting on wildfires that have burned down hundreds of homes and charred huge sections of Colorado and other states in the region."...
MAIDUGURI (AP): A curfew in a religious flashpoint state in Nigeria's north has failed to stop days of ongoing violence and almost 100 deaths, an official said yesterday, as residents of another besieged city said a curfew imposed...
KABUL (AP):A suicide bomber killed 21 people, including three United States soldiers at a checkpoint in a packed market in eastern Afghanistan yesterday, the third assault targeting Americans in as many days....
NEW ORLEANS United States (AP): The Southern Baptist Convention voted yesterday to elect its first African-American president in one of its biggest steps yet to reconcile the 167-year-old denomination's racial past and appeal to a more diverse group...
SAN DIEGO United States (AP):The United States Navy says an aircraft carrier group recovered about 10 tons of marijuana dumped from small boats in the Pacific Ocean near California's border with Mexico. The Navy disclosed yesterday that two single-engine...
TEXAS, United States (AP):Two men have been sentenced to prison for illegally exporting about 3,000 rounds of ammunition from South Texas to Mexico.A federal judge in Brownsville yesterday sentenced Guillermo Enrique Villarreal of Brownsville...
