(AP) Confederate flag at old NC Capitol coming downBy MICHAEL BIESECKERAssociated PressRALEIGH, N.C.A Confederate battle flag hung inside the old North Carolina State Capitol last week to mark the sesquicentennial of the Civil War is being taken down after civil
By DIDI TANGAssociated PressBEIJINGNo signs of life have been detected at a gold mining site in a mountainous area of Tibet more than 24 hours after a massive landslide buried 83 workers, Chinese state media said Saturday. The state-run China
CBS Sports analyst Doug Gottlieb caused a politically correct firestorm Thursday night during the network’s NCAA basketball tournament coverage. Gotlieb joined co-hosts Greg Gumbel, Kenny Smith, Greg Anthony and Charles Barkley on the pre-show coverage and made a joke about the
By NICOLE WINFIELDAssociated PressROMEIn his most significant break with tradition yet, Pope Francis washed and kissed the feet of two young women at a juvenile detention center _ a surprising departure from church rules that restrict the Holy Thursday ritual
(AP) SAfrica: Mandela in hospital with lung infectionBy CHRISTOPHER TORCHIAAssociated PressJOHANNESBURG Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader who became South Africa’s first black president, has been admitted to a hospital with a recurring lung infection, South Africa said Thursday. Mandela, 94,
Baseball broadcaster Tim McCarver announced on Wednesday that this season will be his last in the booth as a color commentator. McCarver has called baseball games on Fox with Joe Buck since 1996. “I wanted to step down while I
By The Associated PressTUCSON, Ariz.Major findings on the Jan. 8, 2011, attack on former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords gleaned from about 2,700 pages of documents released Wednesday, including survivor accounts, police reports and interviews with friends and family of gunman Jared
By DAN ELLIOTT and P. SOLOMON BANDAAssociated PressDENVERColorado theater shooting suspect James Holmes has offered to plead guilty and serve the rest of his life in prison to avoid the death penalty _ a deal that would bring a swift
The paragraph below is from an Associated Press news item, not an opinion column. Pretty self-explanatory: Republican majorities in the Virginia House and Senate pushed the bill to passage one year after a more modest GOP-sponsored voter identification law failed
The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, which owns the Foxwoods Resort Casino in southeastern Connecticut, is among federally recognized tribes that, although considered “sovereign nations,” are seeking increased revenues through grants from the U.S. government. According to the Associated Press, the
FOX NEWS: When local California official Susan Muranishi retires from her job in a couple of years, she’s going to be walking away with a fat paycheck — $423,664 a year – for the rest of her life. Muranishi, an
(AP) Nike’s Tiger Woods ad draws criticsBy MAE ANDERSONAssociated PressNEW YORK Maybe winning doesn’t take care of everything. Nike is causing a social media storm with its latest online ad showing a picture of Tiger Woods overlaid with a quote
(AP) – North Korea’s military warned Tuesday that its artillery and rocket forces are at their highest-level combat posture in the latest in a string of bellicose threats aimed at South Korea and the United States. Seoul’s Defense Ministry said
(AP) – For months now, the United States has been training secular Syrian fighters in Jordan with the goal of bolstering the array of forces battling President Bashar Assad’s regime while at the same time strengthening the hand of moderates
(AP) – Syrian opposition representatives took the country’s seat for the first time at an Arab League summit that opened in Qatar on Tuesday, a significant diplomatic boost for the forces fighting President Bashar Assad’s regime. In a ceremonious entrance
By SYLVIA HUIAssociated PressLONDONA post-mortem examination found that self-exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky died by hanging, and there was nothing pointing to a violent struggle, British police said. Thames Valley Police said Monday that further tests, including toxicology examinations, will
The Associated Press reports that another journalist has been murdered in Somalia. Rahmo Abdulqadir Farah, a female journalist from Somalia was gunned down in Mogadishu Sunday night. Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reports the dangerous climate in Somalia for
By THOMAS BEAUMONT and DAVID ESPOAssociated PressSIOUX FALLS, S.D.Democratic U.S. Sen. Tim Johnson of South Dakota plans to retire at the end of his term, Democratic officials said Monday _ a departure that gives Republicans a prime opportunity to pick
(AP) Prince Harry to visit US, skipping Vegas this timeBy DANICA KIRKAAssociated PressLONDONBritain’s Prince Harry is returning to the United States _ but this time he’s skipping Las Vegas. The 28-year-old prince will travel to the U.S. East Coast as
(AP) Calif. city heading to bankruptcy courtBy TRACIE CONEAssociated PressSTOCKTON, Calif.After years of struggles, a Central California city is poised to become the most populous in the nation to enter bankruptcy when its trial begins Monday in federal court. Creditors
(AP) Cyprus reaches ‘painful’ solution to secure rescueBy ELENA BECATOROSAssociated PressNICOSIA, CyprusCyprus clinched a last-minute solution to avert imminent financial meltdown early Monday after it agreed to slash its oversized banking sector and inflict hefty losses on wealthy depositors in
By STEPHEN OHLEMACHERAssociated PressWASHINGTONNobody’s going to win an Emmy for a parody of the TV show “Star Trek” filmed by Internal Revenue Service employees at an agency studio in Maryland. Instead, the IRS got a rebuke from Congress for wasting
(AP) FAA to close 149 air traffic towers under cutsBy JASON KEYSERAssociated PressCHICAGOUnder orders to trim hundreds of millions of dollars from its budget, the Federal Aviation Administration on Friday released a final list of 149 air traffic control towers
(AP) What happens if Cyprus collapses?By SARAH DiLORENZO and DAVID McHUGHAssociated PressPARISWhat happens if Cyprus’ banks collapse? If its government goes broke? If it leaves the euro? The European Union, the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the
MEIKHTILA, Myanmar (AP) — Burning fires from two days of Buddhist-Muslim violence that killed at least 20 people smoldered across a central Myanmar town Friday as residents cowered indoors amid growing fears the country’s latest bout of sectarian bloodshed could
