Police cases converge to stir national debate
By TOM HAYS and COLLEEN LONG From the White House to the streets of some of America’s biggest cities, the New York chokehold case converged with the Ferguson shooting and…
Events
Taiwan, Hong Kong a challenge for China’s Xi
By RALPH JENNINGS and CHRISTOPHER BODEEN In this Sunday, Nov. 30, 2014 photo, police officers throw a pro-democracy protester on the main road outside government headquarters in Hong Kong as…
TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL UNVEILS LINEUP
This Friday, May 16, 2014 photo shows Denzel Washington at the Drama League Awards in New York. On Tuesday, July 22, 2014, the Toronto Film Festival unveiled a star-heavy lineup,…
GAZA ROCKET LANDS NEAR ISRAEL’S MAIN AIRPORT
By TIA GOLDENBERG and KARIN LAUB Israeli police officers secure a destroyed house that was hit by a rocket fired by Palestinians militants from Gaza, in Yahud, a Tel Aviv…
AIRLINES SCRAP ISRAEL FLIGHTS OVER MISSILE FEAR
By The Associated Press FILE – In this file photo taken July 22, 2011 a Delta Air Lines jet takes off at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus, Mich. Delta…
Film academy invites 271 to join in the Oscar vote
FILE – In this Sunday, March 2, 2014 file photo, Lupita Nyong’o arrives at the Oscars, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Two hundred seventy one people working in…
Sunni fighters expand offensive in western Iraq
By HAMZA HENDAWI and SAMEER N. YACOUB Volunteers of the newly formed “Peace Brigades” participate in a parade in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, June 21,…
Clinton: ‘Not prepared’ to back working with Iran
By KEN THOMAS HiIlary Rodham Clinton smiles as she arrives at a book signing for her new book “Hard Choices,” at Harvard Book Store, Monday, June 16, 2014, in Cambridge,…