OBAMA VISITS ‘WOMEN’S RIGHTS’ PARK DURING BUS TOUR
By JULIE PACE President Barack Obama enters the Women’s Rights National Historic Park Visitor’s Center in Seneca Falls, N.Y., Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013, to present a signed copy of the…
Human rights and civil liberties
DISGRACED CHINESE POLITICIAN MOUNTS FEISTY DEFENSE
By GILLIAN WONG In this photo released by the Jinan Intermediate People’s Court, Bo Xilai, center, stands on trial at the court in eastern China’s Shandong province on Thursday Aug.…
CIVIL RIGHTS INCLUDES GAYS 50 YEARS AFTER MARCH
By BRETT ZONGKER FILE – In this Aug. 1, 1963 black-and-white photo, Bayard Rustin, leader of the “March on Washington” speaks at the National Headquarters. Months before Martin Luther King…
MANNING SENTENCED TO 35 YEARS IN WIKILEAKS CASE
By DAVID DISHNEAU and PAULINE JELINEK Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted into a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013, before a sentencing hearing in his court…
NYC MAYORAL CANDIDATE IN COURT OVER PROTEST ARREST
By JENNIFER PELTZ FILE – In this July 10, 2013 file photo, New York City mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio speaks to reporters outside of a police precinct in New…
YEAR AFTER LEADER DIES, ETHIOPIA IS LITTLE CHANGED
By KIRUBEL TADESSE Ethiopian prime minister Hailemariam Dessalegni and Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir chat during the the first year anniversary ceremonyof the death of long-time ruler Meles Zenawi in Addis…
AUTHORITIES: MEN SMUGGLED GUNS TO NYC ON B– USES
By TOM HAYS New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly looks at some of the guns seized as part of gun smuggling between the Carolinas and New York, Monday, Aug. 19,…
NJ governor to sign ban on gay conversion therapy
By ANGELA DELLI SANTI FILE- In this July 29, 2013 file photo New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks in Morristown, N.J. Get your face on TV and write a book:…