OBESITY VERY HIGH IN 13 STATES; MANY IN THE SOUTH
By MIKE STOBBE FILE – In this June 26, 2012 file photo, two women speak to each other in New York. A national telephone survey found 13 states with very…
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FLIGHT RECORDERS FOUND IN DEADLY UPS PLANE CRASH
By JAY REEVES National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Investigators examine debris of a UPS A300 cargo plane after it crashed on approach at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013,…
BRAZIL COURT CONVICTS 3 FOR RAPE OF AMERICAN
FILE – In this April 2, 2013 file photo, suspects Wallace Aparecido Souza Silva, left, Carlos Armando Costa dos Santos, center, and Jonathan Foudakis de Souza are presented to the…
REACTIONS TO EGYPTIAN CRACKDOWN ON PRO-MORSI CAMPS
By The Associated Press Egyptians walk among the burned remains of the Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque, in the center of the largest protest camp of supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi,…
OBAMA CANCELS US-EGYPTIAN MILITARY EXERCISE
President Barack Obama makes a statement to the media regarding events in Egypt, from his rental vacation home in Chilmark Mass., on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, Thursday, Aug. 15,…
DC FIRE DEPT. STRAINS TO PROVIDE EMERGENCY CARE
FILE – In this Dec. 16, 2010, file photo, Kenneth Ellerbe Washington then-Washington Mayor-Elect Vince Gray’s nominee for Chief of Fire and Emergency Medical Services, center, talks as fellow nominees,…
PARAGUAY’S NEW PRESIDENT WAS TARGETED BY THE DEA
By PEDRO SERVIN and MICHAEL WARREN Paraguay’s new President Horacio Cartes, left, receives the presidential sash from Congress President Julio Cesar Velazquez during Cartes’ swearing-in ceremony at Palacio de Lopez…
MEXICO DRUG CARTEL LAUNCHES RARE PUBLICITY PUSH
By MARK STEVENSON FILE – In this July 29, 2013 file photo, masked members of the Purepecha Indian community guard unit, from the town of Los Reyes in Michoacan, Mexico,…