Associated Press
| Mar 13, 2013
Veteran musher Mitch Seavey, 53, last night won the grueling Iditarod Trail Sled Dog race across Alaska to huge cheers in a thrilling sprint at the end of the nearly 10-day run. Seavey, who also won in 2004, was the oldest Iditarod winner ever. Hi...
Associated Press
| Mar 12, 2013
Spring might be just over a week away but you'd never know it traveling through northern Europe just now, if you could travel, that is, and get through traffic snarled by a huge surprise snowstorm. Hundreds of flights have have cancelled and even ...
Associated Press
| Mar 11, 2013
New York City's pound-breaking limit on the size of sugar-laden drinks to help protect New Yorkers' health and waistlines has been struck down by a judge a day before it was to take effect. He said the law, hated by the beverage industry, was ridd...
Associated Press
| Mar 11, 2013
Police have released a surveillance video showing a drive-by shooting in Washington, DC, where at least 11 people were injured, including one seriously. No one was arrested, but investigators are poring over the tape seeking clues in the attack, w...
Associated Press
| Mar 11, 2013
Huge swarms of locusts are invading Israel. The country is fighting the bugs off with pesticides. The locust invasion comes just two weeks before the Jewish holiday of Passover, which includes a recounting of an ancient "plague of locusts."
Associated Press
| Mar 10, 2013
New US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel went on the defensive tonight after meeting with a testy Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who accused the US on national TV of secretly negotiating daily with the Taliban and colluding to keep US forces in his na...
Associated Press
| Mar 8, 2013
Pope Benedict XVI's resignation opens the door to an array of possible successors. There's no clear front-runner, though several leading candidates have been mentioned over the years as papabile, or having the qualities of a pope. (March 8)
Associated Press
| Mar 5, 2013
Italy's Mount Etna has exploded in a particularly fiery eruption, shooting out plumes of hot lava and ash. The volcano is the tallest active volcano in Europe, and almost constantly in a state of activity, though rarely as spectacular as this.
Associated Press
| Mar 3, 2013
At least two people were killed and 400 injured when the Egyptian military intervened in clashes between protesters and police in Port Said. It's yet another sign of the increasing violence that continues to rock the nation two years after the up...
Associated Press
| Mar 2, 2013
Russia voiced strong skepticism about the autopsy on a 3-year-old adopted Russian boy in Texas and demanded further investigation as thousands rallied in Moscow to support the Kremlin ban on U.S. adoptions of Russian children.
— May 15 at 01:26 am
...involving highly classified material” from early 2012. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. said he could not comment on an open investigation — alt...
— May 19 at 08:12 am
...as individuals, cannot," Cornyn said. Cornyn said the Justice Department's actions were part of a pattern for Obama's administration to quiet it...
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