Mandela 'steadily improving' on 95th birthday
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Relief from worst heat on the horizon by weekend
NEW
YORK (AP) — Cooler temperatures are within sight but likely not soon
enough and cool enough for a large swath of the country hit with
dangerously high temperatures for days as the largest heat wave of the
summer failed to budge from South Dakota to Massachusetts.Read More ...
Sources: Senators reach deal on student loans
Heading
off a costly increase for returning college students, a bipartisan
group of senators reached a deal Wednesday that would offer students
better rates on their loans this fall but perhaps assign higher rates in
coming years.Read More ...
Poll: US still seen as top economic power
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is still viewed as the world's leading economic power in many countries, according to polls in 39 nations by the Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project. But as the Great Recession has buffeted the U.S. economy, China has gained rapidly in the eyes of the rest of the world, and many say it ultimately will replace America as the world's top global economic force.
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Senate ready to approve Labor Department chief
WASHINGTON
(AP) — The Senate was poised Thursday to approve President Barack
Obama's choice to head the Labor Department after lawmakers, by the
thinnest of margins, voted to remove obstacles blocking the confirmation
while honoring a bipartisan pact for approving top nominations.Read More ...
Russian opposition leader Navalny found guilty
KIROV,
Russia (AP) — A Russian judge on Thursday found opposition leader
Alexei Navalny guilty of theft, a ruling that could send the charismatic
anti-corruption blogger and Moscow mayoral candidate to prison for up
to six years.Read More ...
NKorea arms seizure could hurt US-Cuba detente
HAVANA
(AP) — Cuba's admission that it was secretly sending aging weapons
systems to North Korea has turned the global spotlight on a little-known
link in a secretive network of rusting freighters and charter jets that
moves weapons to and from North Korea despite U.N. sanctions.Read More ...
$33,000 spent on sequestered jurors
ORLANDO,
Fla. (AP) — About $33,000 was spent to sequester the six female jurors
who acquitted George Zimmerman of any crime for fatally shooting Trayvon
Martin, according to details released Wednesday by the Seminole County
Sheriff's Office.Read More ...
Memory decline may be earliest sign of dementia
BOSTON (AP) — Memory problems that are often dismissed as a normal part of aging may not be so harmless after all.Read More ...
ACLU: Police record license plates by the millions
WASHINGTON (AP) — You can drive, but you can't hide.Read More ...
House votes to delay parts of health care law
WASHINGTON
(AP) — The Republican-led House voted on Wednesday to delay core
provisions of President Barack Obama's health care law, emboldened by
the administration's concession that requiring companies to provide
coverage for their workers next year may be too complicated.Read More ...
Heat blankets much of US as summer sizzles
NEW
YORK (AP) — From South Dakota to Massachusetts temperatures surged to
potentially dangerous levels Wednesday as the largest heat wave of the
summer stretched out and stagnated, with relief in many parts of the
country still days away.Read More ...
AP PHOTOS: Smothering heat wave settles over US
A
cross-country heat wave is buckling highway pavement in several states,
exacerbating emergencies like broken water mains and making dangerous
work more so for western firefighters battling wildfires. At least one
person has died.Read More ...
Wis. man, 76, guilty in fatal shooting of teen
MILWAUKEE
(AP) — A Milwaukee man who suspected his 13-year-old neighbor of
breaking into his home and stealing weapons was convicted Wednesday of
fatally shooting the boy as the teen's mother looked on. Now, jurors
will decide whether the 76-year-old defendant was mentally ill at the
time.Read More ...
Senate clears hurdle for Labor secretary nominee
WASHINGTON
(AP) — The Senate voted by the slimmest margin Wednesday to end a
filibuster against President Barack Obama's choice to head the Labor
Department, as this week's agreement averting a poisonous partisan clash
over nominations and the chamber's rules barely survived its toughest
test so far.Read More ...
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