(AP) Anti-austerity protests grip 56 Spanish citiesBy HAROLD HECKLEAssociated PressMADRIDTens of thousands of people marched in 56 Spanish cities Sunday to protest punishing austerity cuts they say will only increase unemployment and job insecurity in a country experiencing its second
(AP) Pakistan blocks anti-US protest in tribal regionBy ISHTIAQ MAHSUDAssociated PressTANK, PakistanThe Pakistani military blocked a convoy carrying thousands of Pakistanis and a small contingent of U.S. anti-war activists from entering a lawless tribal region along the border with Afghanistan
By LARRY NEUMEISTER and JOHN CHRISTOFFERSENAssociated PressNEW YORKAn ailing extremist Egyptian-born preacher and four other terrorism suspects arrived in the United States from England early Saturday under tight security to face trial, and two appeared within hours in a Connecticut
By ROBERT BURNSAP National Security WriterKABUL, AfghanistanThe Haqqani insurgent network, based in Pakistan and with ties to al-Qaida, is suspected of being a driving force behind a significant number of the “insider” attacks by Afghan forces that have killed or
By ZARAR KHANAssociated PressISLAMABADHundreds of Pakistanis, joined by dozens of American activists, have launched a motorcade “march” against U.S. drone strikes that they hope will reach the militant-riddled Afghan border region. The main faction of the Pakistani Taliban has denounced
By JACQUES BILLEAUD and BRIAN SKOLOFFAssociated PressPHOENIXFriendly fire likely was to blame in a shooting near the Arizona-Mexico line that killed one federal agent and wounded another, the FBI said, noting the investigation was still ongoing in the case that
For the first time, the unemployment rate has dropped below 8 percent under Obama, but that is no victory to crow about. 7.8 percent unemployment is still unacceptable. Remember, President Obama promised that with his stimulus, the unemployment rate would be
By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTIAssociated PressHOUSTONActress Daryl Hannah of “Splash” fame was arrested in northeast Texas on Thursday, along with a 78-year-old landowner as the pair protested an oil pipeline designed to bring crude from Canada to the Gulf Coast. Hannah and
(AP) Iran police on watch after currency protestsBy ALI AKBAR DAREINIAssociated PressTEHRAN, IranIran deployed riot police at key Tehran intersections on Thursday, after tensions flared over the nation’s plunging currency in the most widespread display of anger linked to the
(AP) Egypt’s hardline Islamist party unravelsBy MAGGIE MICHAELAssociated PressCAIROInternal feuds are threatening to unravel the political party of Egypt’s ultraconservative Islamist Salafis, as pragmatists try to shake off the control of hardline clerics who reject any compromise in their stark,
The networks and the Associated Press have an insidious plan to help President Obama on Election Day that is being swept under the rug: they are cutting nineteen states from the list of exit polls they will report. For twenty
By SARA BURNETTAssociated PressCHICAGOU.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.’s wife said Wednesday her husband is seeing his doctor two to three times a week and that she doesn’t know if he will return to work before the Nov. 6 election. Chicago
By JULIE PACE and DAVID ESPOAssociated PressDENVERPrimed for a showdown, President Barack Obama accused Republican rival Mitt Romney in campaign debate Wednesday night of wanting to “double down on the top-down policies” that led to a devastating economic downturn four
(AP) Churches using ‘souls to polls’ to rally voteBy CURT ANDERSONAssociated PressMIAMIIt’s not just the collection plate that’s getting passed around this fall at hundreds of mainly African-American and Latino churches in presidential battleground states and across the nation. Exhorting
(AP) Next cold war? Gas drilling boom rattles RussiaBy KEVIN BEGOSAssociated PressPITTSBURGH The Kremlin is watching, European nations are rebelling, and some suspect Moscow is secretly bankrolling a campaign to derail the West’s strategic plans. It’s not some Cold War
(AP) Calif dairies going broke due to feed, milk pricesBy GOSIA WOZNIACKAAssociated PressHANFORD, Calif.In nearly six decades of running a dairy in central California, Mary Cameron made a name for herself in a male-dominated industry: She led several dairy organizations
(AP) Syrian fighting torches historic medieval marketBy KARIN LAUBAssociated PressBEIRUTA fire sparked by battles between Syrian President Bashar Assad’s troops and rebel fighters tore through Aleppo’s centuries-old covered market Saturday, burning wooden doors and scorching stone stalls and vaulted passageways.
(AP) US military deaths in Afghanistan hit 2,000By PATRICK QUINNAssociated PressKABUL, AfghanistanU.S. military deaths in the Afghan war have reached 2,000, a cold reminder of the human cost of an 11-year-old conflict that now garners little public interest at home
By MICHAEL WARRENAssociated PressBUENOS AIRES, ArgentinaIsrael expressed deep concern Friday about Argentina’s efforts to work with Iran to solve the South American country’s worst terrorist attack. Prosecutors believe Iranians bombed a Buenos Aires Jewish center in 1994, killing 84 people.
By LISA RATHKE and MICHAEL HILLAssociated PressARLINGTON, Vt.Don Trachte’s cowlick has been tamed. Mary Hall is no longer a towhead. Butch Corbett is still thin, but not the beanpole he once was. And Tom Paquin’s carrot top is thinner and
By DONNA CASSATAAssociated PressWASHINGTONRepublicans lashed out at President Barack Obama and senior administration officials over their evolving description of the deadly Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya, a late campaign-season broadside challenging the veracity and leadership of
UPDATE — From Deadline Hollywood: U.S. District Court Judge Suzanne Segal hasruled that the anti-Islam Innocence Of Muslims film producer known as Nakoula Basseley Nakoula will be held in the Metropolitan Detention Center after his arrest earlier today on probation violations. He will remain
By CASSANDRA VINOGRAD and JILL LAWLESSAssociated PressLONDONHerbert Lom, the Czech-born actor best known as Inspector Clouseau’s long-suffering boss in the “Pink Panther” movies, died Thursday, his son said. He was 95. Alec Lom said his father died peacefully in his
(AP) Student debt stretches to record 1 in 5 householdsBy HOPE YENAssociated PressWASHINGTONWith college enrollment growing, student debt has stretched to a record number of U.S. households _ nearly 1 in 5 _ with the biggest burdens falling on the
(AP) In 2-minute ad, Obama touts ‘economic patriotism’By MATTHEW DALY and KEN THOMASAssociated PressWASHINGTONPresident Barack Obama is pitching a broad economic argument to voters ahead of next week’s debate with Republican opponent Mitt Romney, buying TV time in seven battleground
