13 hours, 48 minutes ago
(AP) Two people familiar with the Senate immigration deliberations say the White House has suggested to Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy that it would be best to put off a controversy over gay marriage until a bill goes before the full Senate.President ...
13 hours, 51 minutes ago
(AP) Physicist Ernest Moniz has been sworn in as the nation's new energy secretary.The 68-year-old Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor took the oath of office Tuesday at the Energy Department. He replaces Steven Chu, who served as energy secretary in President ...
13 hours, 53 minutes ago
(AP) Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew says the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative political groups was "unacceptable and inexcusable" and he has directed the agency's acting director to hold people accountable.Lew told the Senate Banking Committee that he has also asked ...
13 hours, 53 minutes ago
(AP) General Motors says it will invest $44.5 million at a Lansing, Mich., factory, creating 200 new jobs.The automaker says it will build a 400,000-square-foot building next to the Lansing Grand River plant to assemble parts and put them in the ...
14 hours, 12 minutes ago
(AP) A Saudi official says police have detained 10 more members of an alleged Iranian spy ring _ eight Saudis, one Lebanese and one Turkish national.Interior Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Mansour al-Turki said in a statement Tuesday that investigations in the ...
14 hours, 15 minutes ago
(AP) Paris police say Notre Dame Cathedral has been evacuated after a man committed suicide in the 850-year-old monument and tourist site.A police official says officers closed the cathedral to the public after the incident Tuesday afternoon. The official could not ...
14 hours, 18 minutes ago
(AP) The first woman from Saudi Arabia to scale Mount Everest says she doesn't intend to inspire a movement, but would be happy to change people's opinions of Saudi women and Saudi women's opinions of themselves.Raha Mobarak told reporters in Katmandu ...
14 hours, 18 minutes ago
(AP) Afghan President Hamid Karzai is expected to ask for more military aid during meetings with Indian leaders.Karzai met with Indian President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday and planned talks later with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.Mukherjee's office said he told Karzai that ...
14 hours, 21 minutes ago
(AP) The United Nations refugee agency said that they are working to contain a cholera outbreak in Niger in a refugee camp for people fleeing the conflict in Mali.Melissa Fleming, the chief spokeswoman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, ...
14 hours, 21 minutes ago
(AP) A company that monitors global Internet traffic says another branch of the Venezuela-to-Cuba undersea fiber-optic cable has come online, connecting the island to nearby Jamaica.Internet analysis firm Renesys says it detected the new traffic between Cuban state telecom monopoly Etecsa ...
14 hours, 23 minutes ago
(AP) A deadly tornado hit suburban Oklahoma City on Monday. A quick look at some basic facts:Q. Is global warming to blame?A. You can't blame a single weather event on global warming. In any case, scientists just don't know whether there ...
14 hours, 25 minutes ago
(AP) A federal appeals court is backing the U.S. government's decision not to release photos and video taken of Osama bin Laden during and after a raid in which the terrorist leader was killed by U.S. commandos.The three-judge panel of the ...
14 hours, 25 minutes ago
(AP) Conservative Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn says that any additional federal aid to help tornado victims and to rebuild devastated areas of his state should be financed with cuts to other programs in the government's $3.6 trillion budget.Spokesman John Hart says ...
14 hours, 28 minutes ago
(AP) Jamie Dimon, the chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, says last year's $6 billion trading loss had been expensive and "extremely embarrassing," but he also asked shareholders not to fixate on the issue."It would have been a terrible shame if ...
14 hours, 37 minutes ago
(AP) The Army private who gave more than 700,000 secret U.S. documents to WikiLeaks is back in court for the last scheduled hearing before his military trial next month.The pretrial hearing that began Tuesday for Pfc. Bradley Manning concerns classified material ...
14 hours, 37 minutes ago
(AP) Visitors to the Jersey shore this weekend will find many of their favorite beaches and boardwalks ready for summer, thanks to a massive rebuilding effort after Superstorm Sandy.While several neighborhoods remain damaged, all but one of the storm-wrecked boardwalks should ...
14 hours, 49 minutes ago
(AP) Cuba has authorized individual imports of appliances like air conditioners, refrigerators and microwave ovens, lifting a ban in place since 2005, when the measure was adopted amid a wave of energy shortages and blackouts.Cuban citizens can now bring up to ...
14 hours, 53 minutes ago
(AP) Hundreds of people living just outside Japan's Fukushima prefecture say they have been denied adequate compensation after the country's 2011 nuclear disaster despite suffering elevated radiation levels.Nearly 700 residents from Hippo district in Miyagi prefecture, just northeast of Fukushima, filed ...
14 hours, 53 minutes ago
(AP) A massive power failure has affected more than 8 million people in Thailand's 14 southern provinces, including popular tourist areas such as Koh Samui and Phuket, in one of the country's biggest blackouts in recent memory.Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand ...
15 hours, 22 minutes ago
(AP) A Saudi online newspaper says Oman is proposing that women be banned from wearing face veils when driving.Al-Watan said Tuesday Oman made the proposal at a meeting of Gulf Cooperation Council police traffic department heads. It singled out the niqab, ...
15 hours, 32 minutes ago
(AP) Sprint says it has raised its buyout offer for the stake in Clearwire it does not already own by 14 percent.Sprint Nextel Corp. said Tuesday that it is offering $3.40 per share for Clearwire Corp. Its previous offer, from December, ...
15 hours, 34 minutes ago
(AP) A French drug company and its founder are on trial on charges of misleading the public about a diabetes drug marketed as a weight loss method and suspected in hundreds of deaths.But after years of delays in one of France's ...
15 hours, 48 minutes ago
(AP) The state medical examiner's office has revised the death toll from a tornado in an Oklahoma City suburb to 24 people, including seven children.Spokeswoman Amy Elliot said Tuesday morning that she believes some victims were counted twice in the early ...
15 hours, 48 minutes ago
(AP) A Connecticut foster mother faces 100 days in jail after acknowledging she spanked a 4-year-old girl with a wooden spoon.Jami Littlefield pleaded guilty Monday in Superior Court in Norwich to third-degree assault.The Day of New London reports ( http://bit.ly/10LwYFg) Littlefield ...
16 hours, 1 minute ago
(AP) Prosecutors in Georgia say that the country's former prime minister has been detained and charged with abuse of office and misappropriation of property.Vano Merabishvili was detained Tuesday after being questioned at the prosecutors' office in western Georgia.Merabishvili served as prime ...
16 hours, 7 minutes ago
(AP) Will Xbox mark the spot once again for Microsoft?The company is set to reveal the next generation of its Xbox entertainment console during a presentation Tuesday at its headquarters in Redmond, Wash.It's been eight years since the launch of the ...
16 hours, 21 minutes ago
(AP) Europe captain Paul McGinley has given himself an extra pick for next year's Ryder Cup, copying American counterpart Tom Watson's decision to choose three players.McGinley announced the decision on Tuesday, after meeting the leading European players on the U.S. PGA ...
16 hours, 23 minutes ago
(AP) A military burial is scheduled in eastern Pennsylvania for a World War II soldier whose remains were recovered after more than 65 years.The Express-Times reports ( http://bit.ly/10ixKtR) William Yawney was a 23-year-old Army private when he was killed on Saipan ...
16 hours, 39 minutes ago
(AP) South Korea's Supreme Court has upheld a ruling sentencing a man to a year and half in prison for exchanging emails with an alleged North Korean spy and praising Pyongyang on his website.Spokesman Lee Hyun-bok said Tuesday the court cited ...
17 hours, 12 minutes ago
(AP) Syrian opposition groups meeting in Spain say they oppose all negotiation with President Bashar Assad's government unless it is aimed at his giving up of power.Some 80 opposition representatives from inside and outside the country concluded a two-day meeting Tuesday, ...
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