NYC mayor’s vibrant deaf interpreter creates his own storm
By DEEPTI HAJELA They were hanging on his every word — and gesture, body movement, and definitely the facial expressions. Jonathan Lamberton, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s sign…
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Rockets kill 21 in Ukraine city as rebel offensive begins
By PETER LEONARD Indiscriminate rocket fire slammed into a market, schools and homes Saturday in the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, killing at least 21 people, authorities said. Ukraine’s top…
Town once run by polygamist leader is sharply divided
By BRADY McCOMBS As polygamist leader Warren Jeffs awaited his fate in a Texas prison, he sent an order to his followers on the Utah-Arizona border: Build me a new…
Record 6 million turn out for pope’s final day in Manila
By NICOLE WINFIELD and TERESA CEROJANO A crowd estimated at a record 6 million people by officials poured into Manila’s rain-soaked streets and its biggest park Sunday as Pope Francis…
Court upholds Paris police ban of anti-Islamist rally
By GREG KELLER and RAF CASERTA French court has upheld the Paris police chief’s order to ban a planned demonstration against radical Islamists in the wake of France’s worst terrorism…
Police official: Charlie Hebdo suspects dead, hostage freed
By LORI HINNANT and ELAINE GANLEY A police official on the scene of the standoff between two armed brothers suspected in the massacre at the Charlie Hebdo newsroom says the…
After Miami’s kickoff, gays marry across Florida
By MIKE SCHNEIDER Florida’s ban on same-sex marriage ended statewide at the stroke of midnight Monday, and court clerks in some Florida counties wasted no time, issuing marriage licenses and…
PASADENA, Texas emerges as new battleground on voting rights
By PAUL J. WEBER When the movie “Urban Cowboy” made this refinery town famous in 1980, the honkytonk Gilley’s was booming and wannabe cowpokes from the white Houston suburbs flocked…