Why Romney can’t quit Trump
To celebrate clinching the Republican nomination, Romney chose to stand onstage at a Las Vegas fundraiser ... with Donald Trump.Read More ...
Wildfire close to being New Mexico's largest ever
Two lightning-sparked blazes that merged in a mountainous southwestern New Mexico forest are close to becoming the largest wildfire in state history, fire officials said Tuesday.Read More ...
Britain's top court backs Assange extradition
Britain's Supreme Court has endorsed the extradition of WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange to Sweden, an important turning point in the Internet activist's controversial career.Read More ...
Drug cartel barbecues U.S.-owned potato chip company
Mexican authorities arrested four alleged members of the Knights Templar drug cartel after a series of firebomb attacks on a potato-chip company owned by the U.S. food company PepsiCo.Read More ...
Observers in Syria say 13 bodies found, hands tied
The head of U.N. observers in Syria, Major-General Robert Mood, said on Wednesday 13 bodies had been discovered in the east of the country, with their hands tied behind their backs and signs that some had been shot in the head from close range.Read More ...
Ex-Rutgers student in webcam case to go to jail
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Boy wins trip to Disney, gives it to fallen soldier’s family
A 9-year-old Massachusetts boy who earned an all-expenses-paid Disney World vacation through an innovative Facebook experiment gave the trip away to the family of a soldier killed in Afghanistan. Brendan Haas created the "Soldier for a Soldier" Facebook page in February. Inspired by the story of the guy who through a series of trades turned [...]
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Charles Taylor sentenced to 50 years for war crimes
International judges sentenced former Liberian President Charles Taylor to 50 years in prison Wednesday, saying he was responsible for "some of the most heinous and brutal crimes recorded in human history" by arming and supporting Sierra Leone rebels in return for "blood diamonds."Read More ...
For Pakistani truckers, NATO route row is all about the money
Despite their anger, financial survival outweighs nationalist sentiment and the shame of helping what many see as the enemy.Read More ...
Norwegian police refute existence of Knights Templar network
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Calif. death row inmate found hanging in cell
California prison officials say a death row inmate convicted of killing a 13-year-old boy has committed suicide.
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Terrell Owens released by Indoor Football League for lack of effort
Another team for Terrell Owens, and another acrimonious departure. Things never seem to end well with Owens, even with the Allen Wranglers of the Indoor Football League.
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Apple CEO on the challenge of replacing Steve Jobs
Tim Cook runs arguably the most important company in the world. But while investors and Apple fanatics know a lot about Cook, the rest of the world is finally getting to know the man walking in Steve Jobs’ footsteps.Read More ...
Guitar picking master Doc Watson dies at 89
From the folk revival of the 1960s to the Americana movement of the 21st century, Watson remained a constant source of inspiration and a treasured touchstone before his death Tuesday in North Carolina.Read More ...
Tropical Depression Beryl headed back to Atlantic
Tropical Depression Beryl was heading back toward the ocean early Wednesday as it brought rains to South Carolina.Read More ...
Doctors assess mental state of Patz suspect
The man who has confessed to killing the 6-year-old boy at the heart of one of the nation's most prominent missing-child cases remained in a psychiatric hospital as court-appointed doctors assessed his mental state.Read More ...
Greek experts find Roman wrecks nearly a mile deep
Two Roman-era shipwrecks have been found in deep water off a western Greek island, challenging the conventional theory that ancient shipmasters stuck to coastal routes rather than risking the open sea, an official said Tuesday.Read More ...
White House official says Obama ‘misspoke’ of Polish death camp
President Barack Obama "misspoke" when he called a Nazi facility used to process Jews for execution as a "Polish death camp," a White House official told the news agency AFP. The verbal gaffe came as the president was honoring to a famous Pole, Jan Karski, posthumously awarding him a Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country's [...]
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Obama honors Dylan, other Medal of Freedom recipients
President Barack Obama presents rock legend Bob Dylan with a Medal of Freedom, Tuesday, May 29, 2012, during a ceremony at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)Read More ...
Tea partier forces Texas Senate runoff
Tea party candidate Ted Cruz achieved his goal and forced establishment favorite Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst into a runoff in the Texas Republican U.S. Senate race.Read More ...
Kid who squatted at AOL for 2 months aims for $500K for startup
Eric Simons, 20, had all the attributes of a passionate entrepreneur: hungry, visionary, resourceful and willing to do whatever it took to get his startup off the ground, including squatting at AOL’s headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. But after surviving on office catering leftovers and...Read More ...
Vatican crisis highlights pope failure to reform Curia
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - When Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict in 2005, epithets like "God's Rottweiler" and "Panzerkardinal" suggested he would bring some German efficiency to the opaque Vatican bureaucracy, the Curia. Instead, as the "Vatileaks" scandal has revealed, the head of the Roman Catholic Church can't even keep his own private mail secret. His hand-picked deputy, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, faces a "monsignors' mutiny" by prelates in the halls of power. ...Read More ...
Fake ADHD drug Adderall sold online, U.S. FDA warns
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some websites are peddling fake versions of Adderall, a treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder that is currently in short supply in the United States, federal regulators warned. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday said it has learned of at least two cases in which people received counterfeit versions of the 30-milligram dose of the drug with the wrong active ingredients -- ones that treat acute pain, not attention problems. The fake pill is ineffective and may be harmful, the FDA said. ...
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Canada: Severed foot sent to party office
A severed human foot was mailed to the headquarters of Canada's Conservative Party and another body part was discovered when police intercepted a second suspicious package, police said Tuesday.Read More ...
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