President Barack Obama and Cuban head of state Raúl Castro announced in December they would take steps to restore diplomatic relations for the first time since 1961. The U.S. eased…
Last week, the Surfrider Foundation and the Coalition for a Tobacco-Free Hawaii conducted four simultaneous beach clean-ups on Oahu (Ewa), Kauai (Anahola) and the Big Island (Kona and Hilo). –…
NEW YORK — New Republic Editor-in-Chief Gabriel Snyder will speak at this month’s National Press Foundation awards in Washington, D.C., making his first public remarks since taking the helm following…
NEW YORK — One of the easiest ways to get bad press is to ignore the press. That’s especially true on a foreign trip where news organizations have spent thousands…
Christie was scheduled to make remarks to the press after having lunch with British Chancellor George Osborne, but he did not come to the microphones. “We had a lot of…
The 56-year-old Detroit man walks 21 miles every weekday as part of his journey to and from the factory where he works. Robertson takes the bus some of the way,…
Red and purple blossoms with fat, opium-filled bulbs blanket the remote creek sides and gorges of the Filo Mayor mountains in the southern state of Guerrero. The multibillion-dollar Mexican opium…
TAMI ABDOLLAH, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former hip-hop music mogul Marion “Suge” Knight was charged Monday with murder and attempted murder after he struck two men with his…
The ‘Mitt, We Totally Knew Ye’ GOP-Only Edition – Candidate Photos: Getty, Associated Press
Aaron Rodgers has won his second Associated Press NFL Most Valuable Player award in somewhat surprisingly easy fashion. – AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and www.twitter.com/AP_NFL
Detroit’s former emergency manager said Thursday that he worries about his son ending up dead after an encounter with police, echoing the fears of many other black parents. Kevyn Orr…
People are continuing to enjoy active sex lives well into their 70s and 80s, according to new research from The University of Manchester and NatCen Social Research. Of the 7,000…
Investigators are now certain that 43 college students missing since September were killed and incinerated after they were seized by police in southern Guerrero state, the Mexican attorney general said…
New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver will vacate his post by next week, Democratic lawmakers said in a Tuesday press conference. It is not clear whether Silver will step down…
WASHINGTON — A group of Senate Democrats from the Northeast is pushing back on the Obama administration’s proposal to open new areas of the Atlantic Ocean to oil and gas…
Marshawn Lynch’s press conference for Skittles offers an alternate universe where the Seahawks running back actually enjoys talking to the press. We learn that he prefers cat videos over dog…
The magazine’s annual rankings list more than 2,500 hotels across the United States, Caribbean, Mexico and Canada. “We’re taking the guesswork out of finding a great hotel,” said Erin Shields,…
WASHINGTON — From the Department of Predictable Outcomes: The House select committee investigating the 2012 attacks on the U.S diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, appears to be falling apart. At…
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Tom Brady and the New England Patriots’ “deflategate” press conference on Thursday was pretty funny on its own, but the “Saturday Night Live” take on the football scandal was even…
Vice President Joe Biden was originally to have led a delegation to Saudi Arabia on Obama’s behalf. However, the schedule for the President’s departure from India has been adjusted to…
Walter H.G. Lewin’s debut as a massive open online course instructor was announced with some fanfare: “Afraid of physics?” a press release asked in January 2013. “Do you hate it?…
An 86-year-old grandmother is living the good life on the high seas. Florida widow Lee Wachtstetter has lived the last seven years on the luxury cruise ship Crystal Serenity, shelling…
The father of a 13-year-old girl who police say went on a multi-state crime spree with her older boyfriend said Tuesday that he is not angry with the 18-year-old. Cheyenne…
Over the weekend the magazine’s top editor, Gerard Biard, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that some of the surviving staff members are still hospitalized in critical condition. – Chicago…
His frontal assault on the open secrets of New York political power has been a genuine shock to the state’s politics and even to its press, who missed the secret…
DAN SEWELL, Associated Press – Cornell’s attorney said he wants to be called by his Muslim name and have access to a prayer mat in jail.
Houthi rebels battled soldiers near Yemen’s presidential palace Monday morning, witnesses said. The status of President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi was not immediately clear. Witnesses nearby told The Associated Press…
The Seattle Seahawks beat the Green Bay Packers 28-22 in the NFC Championship Game on Sunday. The win secures the Seahawks a spot in Super Bowl XLIX. More below from…
The New England Patriots beat the Indianapolis Colts 45-7 in the AFC Championship Game on Sunday. More below from The Associated Press: – Copyright 2015 The Associated Press. All rights…