NEW YORK (AP) — Google Glass is getting glasses. Google is adding prescription frames and new styles of detachable sunglasses to its computerized, Internet-connected goggles known as Glass. The move comes as Google Inc. prepares to make Glass available to
ST. LOUIS (AP) — With lethal-injection drugs in short supply and new questions looming about their effectiveness, lawmakers in some death penalty states are considering bringing back relics of a more gruesome past: firing squads, electrocutions and gas chambers. Most
MEXICO CITY (AP) — “Self-defense” groups confronting a drug cartel in the western state of Michoacan have agreed to join government law enforcement forces after months of firefights with gang members, many times as federal police and troops stood by.
TUBAS, West Bank (AP) — Jamal Abu Muhsin was a first-year Palestinian university student when he was convicted of stabbing a 76-year-old Israeli man to death in 1991, in retaliation for the killings of five Palestinian stone-throwers by Israeli soldiers.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Max Baucus is going before fellow senators for a confirmation hearing on his nomination to be U.S. ambassador to China. Tuesday’s hearing by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will be a switch for the six-term Democrat
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s toppled President Mohammed Morsi stood inside a glass-encased metal cage Tuesday, separated from other defendants for the start of a new trial Tuesday over charges from prison breaks during the country’s 2011 revolution, state television reported.
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — The prime minister of protest-torn Ukraine submitted his resignation on Tuesday, saying he hoped the move would help bring peaceful resolution to the crisis that has gripped the country for two months. Mykola Azarov’s resignation would
SOCHI, Russia (AP) — An international journalism watchdog on Tuesday criticized Russian authorities for restricting news coverage of preparations for the Sochi Olympics. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists detailed in a report how Russian and international journalists have
BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s government has announced it will go ahead with parliamentary elections this Sunday despite street protests and an opposition boycott. Deputy Prime Minister Pongthep Thepkanchana made the announcement Tuesday after a meeting between Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra
After collecting four Grammy Awards Sunday and utilizing his live performance to advance a political and social agenda, a 2009 tweet from Macklemore resurfaced Monday showing who he thinks caused the attacks of 9/11. The rapper, who performed his hit
Waiting for Ghostbusters 3 gives a veteran comic like Dan Aykroyd plenty of time on his hands, apparently. Aykroyd, one of Saturday Night Live’s original cast members and erstwhile Blues Brother, is now part of Mississippi’s Hinds County Sheriff Department’s reserve
NEW YORK (AP) — Proving nothing is impossible in the world of daytime television, Rosie O’Donnell is coming back to “The View” — at least for a day. The show announced Monday that O’Donnell will be a guest on the
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Suspected Islamic extremists used explosives and heavy guns to attack a village and worshippers during a Christian church service in Nigeria’s northeast, killing at least 99 people and razing hundreds of homes, officials and witnesses said
The Pentagon informed Congress on Monday it plans to sell 24 Apache attack helicopters to Iraq in a deal worth $4.8 billion, officials said, as Baghdad battles anti-government militants. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s government has asked Washington for weapons
Prince’s ambivalence toward the Internet is well known. Now, the singer formerly known as an unpronounceable symbol is taking legal action against fans for allegedly bootlegging his music via the Web. Prince is suing 22 internet users believed to be among his
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The California Supreme Court on Monday denied a law license to a disgraced former journalist who was caught fabricating dozens of stories for major national magazines. The unanimous seven-judge court ruled that Stephen Glass had insufficiently
A convicted heroin trafficker will not have to serve the tough, 20-year mandatory federal prison sentence usually imposed when an illicit drug deal ends in the user’s death, the US Supreme Court ruled on Monday. In a case that defines
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican U.S. Representative Trey Radel, who was charged in November with buying cocaine, plans to resign from Congress on Monday, according to the Politico news outlet. Radel, 37, whose election to the U.S. House of Representatives in
Singer Trent Reznor wished a “heartfelt” F-bomb on the Grammy team for not letting the show’s finale go on as planned. The Grammy-winning rocker, 48, was joined by Dave Grohl, Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age and Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham — essentially
Director Quentin Tarantino knows how to stage a revenge saga. Just consider films like Kill Bill and Django Unchained as blood-soaked exhibits A and B. Now, the Oscar winner is seeking just that against a web site he says helped
Music super couple Beyonce and Jay-Z showed the world their passion for each other during the Grammys’ opening musical number Sunday night. Their heat drew plenty of complaints from parents watching the awards telecast, and they let their voices be
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton says former Defense Secretary Robert Gates was a “very good colleague” and says her main takeaway from his new book is his admiration for both Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Clinton
US authorities Monday filed criminal charges against two operators of a Bitcoin exchange which enabled its users to buy drugs and other illicit goods on the Silk Road underground website. Federal prosecutors said they unsealed a criminal complaint against Robert
MADISON, Wisconsin (Reuters) – Over the past year Wisconsin’s Republican governor, Scott Walker, has worked his way down a checklist of items commonly associated with a run at the U.S. presidency. He has written a campaign-themed book and visited Iowa,
Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has proposed a far-reaching new law that would force taxpayers to cover the costs of placing tracking devices on autistic children after 14-year-old autistic child Avonte Oquendo was found dead last week. The tracking devices would
