Obama takes funny jabs at health care stumble
Little was sacred when President Obama took the podium at a White House event.Read More ...
Politics and Hollywood collide at 'nerd prom'
Actress
Sofia Vergara poses as she arrives on the red carpet at the annual
White House Correspondents' Association Dinner in Washington, May 3,
2014. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS MEDIA
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California Chrome wins Kentucky Derby
Louisville (AFP) - California Chrome swept to victory in the 140th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on Saturday.Read More ...
Condoleezza Rice backs out of Rutgers commencement
NEW
BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has
backed out of delivering the commencement address at Rutgers University
following protests by some faculty and students over her role in the
Iraq War.Read More ...
Decoding the Apple-Samsung patent dispute
LOS
ANGELES (AP) — Apple and Samsung are suing each other in courts and
trade offices around the world, each making claims that the other copied
patented mobile device features.Read More ...
California Chrome breaks away for Derby win
LOUISVILLE,
Ky. (AP) — A horse with a humble pedigree. A couple of working stiff
owners. A 77-year-old trainer with his first Kentucky Derby horse.Read More ...
AP PHOTOS: Wild hats & fast horses at Ky. Derby
Bold
hats, big bets and thundering hooves were the order of the day at the
Kentucky Derby, where the 140th run for the roses took place Saturday
evening at Churchill Downs.Read More ...
White House reporters honor black journalist
WASHINGTON
(AP) — Harry McAlpin was standing outside the Oval Office, moments away
from becoming the first black reporter to attend a presidential news
conference, when one of his contemporaries approached with a deal.Read More ...
OSCE observers held in Ukraine released
MOSCOW (AP) — European military observers who were held more than a week by insurgents in eastern Ukraine walked free Saturday, with Kiev insisting the release proves Russia is fomenting unrest in Ukraine — as Moscow touted the insurgents as courageous humanists.
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Rescuers struggle to help Afghans hit by landslide
ABI BARIK, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan rescuers and volunteers armed with shovels and little more than their bare hands dug through the mud Saturday after a massive landslide swept through a village the day before, turning it into an earthen tomb holding hundreds of bodies, officials said.
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Charge: Alaska man, 19, shot troopers from behind
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Thunder beat Grizzlies 120-109 in Game 7
OKLAHOMA
CITY (AP) — Kevin Durant got back to playing like he's used to against a
Memphis team that had to change things up at the worst possible time.Read More ...
NBA to appoint CEO to supervise Clippers
LOS
ANGELES (AP) — The NBA said Saturday it will appoint a chief executive
officer to supervise the Los Angeles Clippers' operations after banning
owner Donald Sterling from the league for life.Read More ...
Biden: Immigration crucial to American innovation
The U.S. vice president touts immigration at a college graduation ceremony in South Florida.Read More ...
Images from White House Correspondents' Dinner
President
Barack Obama smiles while making a joke during his speech at the White
House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) Dinner at the Washington Hilton
Hotel, Saturday, May 3, 2014, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn
Martin)Read More ...
Senator urges Hillary Clinton to seek presidency
Senator
Tim Kaine of Virginia on Saturday endorsed Hillary Clinton for
president, even though the former secretary of state has not announced
whether she will seek the White House in 2016. Kaine, who backed Barack
Obama when he beat Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination in
2008, announced his support on Twitter and at breakfast meeting of the
South Carolina Women's Democratic Council in Columbia, South Carolina.
"Today I encouraged Hillary Clinton to run for president &
pledged my support for her candidacy if she does," Kaine said in a tweet
that linked to his remarks on www.readyforhillary.com, website of one
of the most prominent pro-Clinton organizations.Read More ...
U.S. warns of plan to attack hotel in Lagos
The
United States has warned its citizens of a plan to attack one of two
Sheraton hotels near Lagos, Nigeria's main commercial hub which attracts
many foreign business people and which so far has been spared by the
country's violent Islamist militants. In a statement on its website, the
State Department said those behind the plot were "groups associated
with terrorism", but gave no further details. Nigeria is grappling with
an increasingly violent Islamist insurgency that has killed thousands in
the past five years. Islamist militant group Boko Haram, which is
fighting to carve an Islamic state out of religiously mixed Nigeria, is
still mostly confined to the northeast, although it has struck across
the north and in Nigeria's capital, in the center.Read More ...
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