NASA: ANCIENT MARTIAN LAKE MAY HAVE SUPPORTED LIFE
By ALICIA CHANG This Feb 3, 2013 image provided by NASA shows a self portrait of the Mars rover, Curiosity. NASA’s Curiosity rover has uncovered signs of an ancient freshwater…
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ICY STORM SLAMS SOUTHWEST, SHUTS DOWN NORTH TEXAS
By NOMAAN MERCHANT Icy conditions make for light traffic on the highways in Dallas, Friday, Dec. 6, 2013. As snow and freezing rain blanketed normally sun-swept North Texas, residents accustomed…
LATINOS WANT GOV’T TO LOOK INTO LA COUNTY VOTING
By MARK SHERMAN FILE – In this May 15, 2012, file photo, retired California Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso, speaks at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. The Obama administration is…
ADVOCATES PRESS OBAMA TO ACT ON IMMIGRATION
By DONNA CASSATA In this Nov. 25, 2013, photo, President Barack Obama, left, stops his speech and turns around in response to an unidentified man, right, who heckled him about…
Hawaiian baritone making his mark in Verdi
By MIKE SILVERMAN In this Nov. 18, 2013 photo provided by Lyric Opera of Chicago, Quinn Kelsey as Germont, left, performing with Joseph Calleja as his son Alfredo, during the…
Q&A: Jeffrey Wright considers his career choices
By JESSICA HERNDON In this Friday, Nov. 8, 2013 photo, Jeffrey Wright, a cast member in “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” poses for a portrait at the Four Seasons Hotel…
NORTH KOREA DETAINS US WAR VETERAN, 85, SON SAYS
By MARTHA MENDOZA This 2005 photo provided by the Palo Alto Weekly shows Merrill Newman, a retired finance executive and Red Cross volunteer, in Palo Alto, Calif. An 85-year-old American…
PSYCHIC SYLVIA BROWNE DIES AT 77 IN CALIFORNIA
By JOHN ROGERS and CHANNING JOSEPH This undated image released by HarperOne shows psychic and author Sylvia Browne. Browne, a psychic whose frequent appearances on shows such as “Larry King…