RUSSIA SEARCHES HUNDREDS OF RIGHTS GROUPS, NGOS
By MAX SEDDON Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting on sports issues in Kazan, 720 kilometers (450 miles) east of Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 19, 2013. Putin is touring…
Government and politics
OBAMA SAYS HE’S NOT GIVING UP ON MIDEAST PEACE
By JULIE PACE and MATTHEW LEE President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks during a joint news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Wednesday, March 20, 2013, at the…
FIRST LADY BEARS EASTER GIFTS TO MILITARY FAMILIES
By STACY A. ANDERSON First Lady Michelle Obama looks at four-week-old Shawn Wittaker as he is held by his mother Amanda Wittaker during a visit to the Fisher House, located…
EX-MAYOR CONVICTED IN BELL, CALIF., CASE
By JOHN ROGERS FILE – This Jan. 24, 2013 file photo, former Bell, Calif., city officials appear for a massive city corruption trial in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom. Verdicts…
VENEZUELA HALTS COMMUNICATION WITH US DIPLOMAT
By CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKER Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Elias Jaua speaks during a ceremony to honor two Venezuelan diplomats expelled from Washington after Venezuela kicked out two U.S. military attaches, for allegedly…
LANDMARK GUN BILLS SIGNED IN COLORADO
By IVAN MORENO FILE – In this Dec. 12, 2012 file photo, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper is pictured during an interview with the Associated Press at his office in the…
WOMAN AT CENTER OF SPY ALLEGATIONS IS ENIGMA
By AUDREY McAVOY The home of civilian defense contractor Benjamin Pierce Bishop in Kapolei, Hawaii on, March 18, 2013. Bishop is charged with giving national security secrets to a 27-year-old…
US ENVOY PRESSES CHINA OVER HACKING, NORTH KOREA
By JOE McDONALD Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, right, shows the seat to U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew during their meeting at the Zhongnanhai diplomatic compound in Beijing Wednesday, March 20,…