2 hours, 18 minutes ago
(AP) Twenty-nine Chinese workers abducted by rebels in Sudan more than a week ago have been released and flown to Kenya by the Red Cross, the group said Tuesday.The rebels attacked a road construction site where the Chinese were working on Jan. 28, taking 29 hostages, while 17 managed to escape. ...
2 hours, 30 minutes ago
(AP) Former Sen. Bob Kerrey on Tuesday rejected a comeback run for Senate, dashing Democrats' hopes of holding a coveted Nebraska seat and leaving the party to scramble for a race all but guaranteed to go Republicans' way.Many saw Kerrey, a 1992 presidential candidate and former governor, as Nebraska Democrats' only ...
2 hours, 41 minutes ago
(AP) Cold weather has been making a comeback in the South this weekend, after what's been a very mild winter so far.The National Weather Service said north Georgia was in for windy and cold conditions Saturday with temperatures in the 20s. Snow showers were possible in the mountains. And a freeze ...
3 hours, 17 minutes ago
(AP) The U.S. government is seeking software that can mine social media to predict everything from future terrorist attacks to foreign uprisings, according to requests posted online by federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies.Hundreds of intelligence analysts already sift overseas Twitter and Facebook posts to track events such as the Arab ...
5 hours, 26 minutes ago
(AP) A Utah man who police say threatened to assassinate Gov. Gary Herbert is now facing multiple felony charges.Brian Biff Baker was charged Friday in Salt Lake City's 3rd District Court with felony counts of drug and weapons possession, along with a misdemeanor count of threatening elected officials.Court records show no ...
18 hours, 51 minutes ago
(AP) Wild horse protection advocates are accusing the federal Bureau of Land Management of stacking a public advisory board with friends of cattle ranchers at the expense mustangs, and warning that the panel is increasingly sympathetic to the idea of slaughtering excess animals in overpopulated herds on U.S. lands in the ...
18 hours, 51 minutes ago
(AP) Wild horse protection advocates are accusing the federal Bureau of Land Management of stacking a public advisory board with friends of cattle ranchers at the expense of the mustangs. And they say they are worried the panel is becoming increasingly sympathetic to the idea of slaughtering excess animals in overpopulated ...
18 hours, 52 minutes ago
(AP) When Providence Mayor Angel Taveras recently warned that Rhode Island's capital could run out of cash by June and face bankruptcy, he singled out the city's largest employer and one of its most prestigious institutions _ Brown University _ for what he called a failure to sacrifice.The Ivy League school, ...
18 hours, 52 minutes ago
(AP) As natural gas prices continue to drop, the recent nationwide boom in drilling is slowing. Drillers don't make money if prices go too low _ and drilling wells isn't cheap."It is safe to say that there will be fewer natural gas wells drilled in 2012," said Kathryn Klaber, president of ...
19 hours, 27 minutes ago
(AP) A Utah man who police say threatened to assassinate Gov. Gary Herbert is now facing multiple felony charges.Brian Biff Baker was charged Friday in Salt Lake City's 3rd District Court with felony counts of drug and weapons possession, along with a misdemeanor count of threatening elected officials.Court records show no ...
19 hours, 35 minutes ago
(AP) The top U.S. Navy official in the Persian Gulf said Sunday he takes Iran's military capabilities seriously but insists his forces are prepared to confront any Iranian aggression in the region.Vice Adm. Mark Fox, commander of the 5th Fleet, told reporters at the naval force's Bahrain headquarters that the Navy ...
19 hours, 38 minutes ago
(AP) Northern Ireland police investigating activity by Irish Republican Army dissidents say a man has been charged over a bomb discovered last year.The 32-year-old suspect, who was not named by police, was charged Sunday with possession of explosives with intent to endanger life.Officers say the alleged offense related to an improvised ...
20 hours, 10 minutes ago
(AP) A Brazilian airliner safely made a forced landing after a passenger had a "psychotic attack," entered the cockpit and assaulted a pilot, crew members and passengers who tried to subdue him, witnesses said.The TAM Airlines jet was en route from Montevideo, Uruguay, to Sao Paulo when a man who some ...
20 hours, 30 minutes ago
(AP) From the start, it's been a roller-coaster race for the Republican presidential nomination.GOP primary voters can catch their collective breath for the next two weeks after spending the past six lurching toward one candidate and then another in an exercise of political soul-searching that appears far from settled.The next contests, ...
20 hours, 49 minutes ago
(AP) It was part of John F. Kennedy's New Frontier: a government agency to work with developing countries around the world and spread democracy in the process.Fifty years later, the U.S. Agency for International Development faces skepticism from other countries about its true purpose and warnings from critics who say it ...
21 hours, 4 minutes ago
(AP) The U.S. government is seeking software that can mine social media to predict everything from future terrorist attacks to foreign uprisings, according to requests posted online by federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies.Hundreds of intelligence analysts already sift overseas Twitter and Facebook posts to track events such as the Arab ...
21 hours, 13 minutes ago
(AP) Iran's state-run news agency says the country's foreign ministry has summoned Azerbaijan's ambassador to protest alleged Israeli intelligence activity in the oil-rich Caucasian state.The Sunday report by IRNA says that the ministry handed a protest note to Azeri envoy Javanshir Akhundov and demanded that his government prevent Mossad from using ...
21 hours, 54 minutes ago
(AP) Piece by piece, in backpacks and carry-on bags, American aid contractor Alan Gross made sure laptops, smartphones, hard drives and networking equipment were secreted into Cuba. The most sensitive item, according to official trip reports, was the last one: a specialized mobile phone chip that experts say is often used ...
22 hours, 7 minutes ago
(AP) The dustup over contraception underscored President Barack Obama's political edge in working to attract independent voters without alienating his Democratic base. His Republican rivals are forced to keep emphasizing their conservative credentials to attract the right-leaning activists who dominate the nominating contests.It's a dynamic that usually plays out when a ...
22 hours, 7 minutes ago
(AP) Lottery officials say someone who played the Powerball in Rhode Island has won the $336.4 million jackpot.The new multimillionaire has not stepped forward and the lottery has not said where the winning ticket was sold. To win, the player had to match all of Saturday's five numbers, 1-10-37-52-57, and Powerball ...
23 hours, 31 minutes ago
(AP) It happened to nurse Jane Byron years after an in-line skating fall, business owner Haralee Weintraub while doing "men's" push-ups, and avid cyclist Gene Wilberg while lifting a heavy box."It" is that pop, strain or suddenly swollen joint that reminds active older adults they aren't as young as they'd like ...
23 hours, 37 minutes ago
(AP) Mitt Romney takes a hard line against congressional earmarks, but the GOP presidential front-runner had a more favorable view of federal pork-barrel spending when he was governor of Massachusetts.Under his leadership, Massachusetts sought tens of millions of dollars in earmarks for transportation projects through the state's congressional delegation.A prime example ...
1 day ago
(AP) From the start, it's been a roller-coaster race for the Republican presidential nomination.GOP primary voters can catch their collective breath for the next two weeks after spending the past six lurching toward one candidate and then another in an exercise of political soul-searching that appears far from settled.The next contests, ...
1 day ago
(AP) From the start, it's been a roller-coaster race for the Republican presidential nomination.GOP primary voters can catch their collective breath for the next two weeks after spending the past six lurching toward one candidate and then another in an exercise of political soul-searching that appears far from settled.The next contests, ...
1 day, 2 hours ago
(AP) Marine Le Pen has purged the old guard from her father's extreme-right National Front party and is reaching out to Jews, maligned under his leadership, in her bid to be the next president of France.Daughter may be more dangerous than dad, many contend, as she sugarcoats an old anti-immigrant message ...
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