National and World Headlines Articles
Monday, May 14th, 2012
Facebook CEO turns 28, IPO could be $100B gift
Published: Monday, May 14th, 2012
NEW YORK — He famously wears a hoodie, jeans and sneakers, and he was born the year Apple introduced the Macintosh. But Mark Zuckerberg is no boy-CEO.Facebook's chief executive turned 28 on Mon...
Sunday, May 13th, 2012
Yahoo names Levinsohn interim CEO
Published: Sunday, May 13th, 2012
NEW YORK — Yahoo says it is appointing Ross Levinsohn as interim CEO and Fred Amoroso as chairman of its board, effective immediately. AP Photo/Noah BergerIn this Nov. 24, 2010 photo, then...
Saturday, May 12th, 2012
Romney urges grads to honor family commitments
Published: Saturday, May 12th, 2012
LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — Mitt Romney's Mormon faith has shaped his life, but he barely mentioned it as he spoke to graduates at an evangelical Christian university Saturday.And he barely touched o...
Friday, May 11th, 2012
Hudson family slayings suspect convicted of murder
Published: Friday, May 11th, 2012
CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago jury on Friday convicted Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson's former brother-in-law of murdering her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew in what prosecutors' described as...
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
Gay-marriage rivals see gains from Obama remarks
Published: Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
NEW YORK — From the left and the right, rival sides in the gay-marriage debate claimed they would reap Election Day benefits from President Barack Obama's long-awaited declaration that he suppo...
Obama voices his support for gay marriage
Published: Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says he now supports same-sex marriage, ending months of equivocation on a subject with powerful election-year consequences.Obama says he has concluded...
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
Postal Service: Will keep rural post offices open
Published: Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
WASHINGTON — The financially struggling U.S. Postal Service sought this morning to tamp down concern over wide-scale cuts, revealing it will seek to keep thousands of rural po...
Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
Indiana's long-serving Lugar fights for survival
Published: Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The face of Indiana politics for nearly four decades, Republican Sen. Richard Lugar is battling for political survival against a tea party-backed GOP challenger who says the...
Senate heads toward showdown vote on student loans
Published: Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
WASHINGTON — The Senate is steaming toward a showdown on a Democratic proposal to keep student loan interest rates from doubling for 7.4 million students. In a measure of how the upcoming electi...
Monday, May 7th, 2012
US: CIA thwarts new al-Qaida underwear bomb plot
Published: Monday, May 7th, 2012
WASHINGTON — The CIA thwarted an ambitious plot by al-Qaida's affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a bomb with a sophisticated new design around the one-year anniversary of...
Twitter plays outsize role in 2012 campaign
Published: Monday, May 7th, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) — @BarackObama is on Twitter. So is @MittRomney. And so are all the voters following the 2012 presidential contest, whether they know it or not.Candidates, strategists, journalists...
Sunday, May 6th, 2012
Socialist Hollande ousts Sarkozy in France
Published: Sunday, May 6th, 2012
PARIS — Socialist Francois Hollande defeated conservative incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy on Sunday to become France's next president, heralding a change in how Europe tackles its debt crisis and how...
Saturday, May 5th, 2012
9/11 defendants ignore judge at Guantanamo hearing
Published: Saturday, May 5th, 2012
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cub — They knelt in prayer, ignored the judge and wouldn't listen to Arabic translations as they confronted nearly 3,000 counts of murder. The self-proclaimed masterm...
Obama: Time to shift attention from wars to home
Published: Saturday, May 5th, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says his goal of defeating al-Qaida is within reach and that it's time to turn the country's attention to domestic concerns.Just four days after his tr...
Friday, May 4th, 2012
Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys dies at 47
Published: Friday, May 4th, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) — Adam Yauch, the gravelly voiced rapper who made the Beastie Boys one of the seminal groups in hip-hop, has died. He was 47.Yauch, also known as MCA, died Friday morning in New Yo...
Panetta: Troop scandals hurt US Afghan mission
Published: Friday, May 4th, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned troops Friday that it takes just seconds for misconduct to make headlines and said that enemy insurgents can use recent military scandals...
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
US applications for unemployment aid drop sharply
Published: Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
WASHINGTON — The number of people seeking unemployment benefits fell last week by the most in nearly a year. The figure was a hopeful sign one day before the government releases the April jobs r...
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
Taliban kill 7 in Afghan capital after Obama visit
Published: Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban struck back less than two hours after President Barack Obama left Afghanistan on Wednesday, targeting a foreigners' housing compound with a suicide car bomb and...
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
Obama in Afghanistan, sees ‘light of a new day’'
Published: Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — On a swift, secretive trip to the war zone, President Barack Obama declared Tuesday night that after years of sacrifice the U.S. combat role in Afghanistan is win...
Obama in Afghanistan to sign security pact
Published: Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
KABUL, Afghanistan — President Barack Obama slipped into Afghanistan Tuesday night on an unannounced visit on the anniversary of the killing of 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden. Obama is signing...
UK lawmakers: Rupert Murdoch unfit to lead company
Published: Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
LONDON (AP) — News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch must take responsibility for serious failings that caused Britain's tabloid phone hacking scandal, lawmakers said Tuesday in a scathing report &mda...
Sunday, April 29th, 2012
Van plunges off NY road into zoo grounds; 7 killed
Published: Sunday, April 29th, 2012
NEW YORK — An out-of-control van careered across several lanes of traffic on a highway overpass Sunday, then plunged more than 50 feet off the side of the road and landed in a ravine on the grou...
Saturday, April 28th, 2012
Suspect found dead in Washington bunker
Published: Saturday, April 28th, 2012
NORTH BEND, Wash. (AP) — Peter Keller spent eight years carving his hole in the side of the mountain, camouflaging the rugged underground bunker with ferns and sticks and stocking it with a gene...
Sheriff: Body found in Wash. mountain bunker
Published: Saturday, April 28th, 2012
NORTH BEND, Wash. (AP) — After a 22-hour standoff, police blew the top off a rugged mountain bunker near Seattle on Saturday, only to find their target — a man believed to be a murder susp...
Saturday, April 28th, 2012
Police surround bunker in hunt for Wash. fugitive
Published: Saturday, April 28th, 2012
NORTH BEND, Wash— Law officers hunting for an armed survivalist suspected of killing his wife and daughter maintained a perimeter early Saturday around an elaborate, underground bunker where he...
