Islamic State group threatens to kill 2 Japanese hostages
By JON GAMBRELL and MARI YAMAGUCHI The Islamic State group threatened to kill two Japanese hostages Tuesday unless they receive $200 million in 72 hours, directly demanding the ransom from…
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Multi-car pileups claim 3 lives on icy Pennsylvania highways
A pair of multi-car pileups — including one involving dozens of vehicles — in icy conditions on interstates in the Philadelphia area claimed at least three lives on Sunday, authorities…
AP Exclusive: Academy president responds to Oscar firestorm
By SANDY COHEN Responding for the first time to the firestorm of criticism over the lack of diversity in this year’s Oscar nominations, film academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs says…
Russia appeals for calm as crisis forces it to cut budget
By JAMES ELLINGWORTH and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Russian government officials appealed for calm on Wednesday after predicting budget cuts and a further surge in inflation as the country faces its worst…
DC subway hobbled after smoke filled train, killing 1
By BEN NUCKOLS and JESSICA GRESKO The transit network in the nation’s capital was hobbled Tuesday after an electrical malfunction filled a busy subway station with smoke a day earlier,…
Senate Democrats look to tweak bill on Keystone XL pipeline
By DINA CAPPIELLO Democrats plan to use Senate consideration of the Keystone XL oil pipeline to get Republicans on the record about climate change and to resurrect parts of a…
Divers find black boxes in AirAsia crash, retrieve 1 of them
By ACHMAD IBRAHIM Indonesia (AP) — Divers retrieved one black box Monday and located the other from the AirAsia plane that crashed more than two weeks ago, key developments that…
SpaceX launches for NASA, no luck with rocket landing at sea
By MARCIA DUNN SpaceX pulled off another successful launch of supplies to the International Space Station on Saturday, but its revolutionary attempt to land the leftover booster on an ocean…