REPORT: WORLD TURMOIL MEANS FEWER HAVE FREE PRESS
By PETER JAMES SPIELMANN FILE – In this July 17, 1997 file photo, David Hoffman sits inside his self-built newsstand on Lexington Avenue in New York. According to democracy watchdog…
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MAN NAMED IN RICIN MAILING CASE GOES INTO HIDING
By HOLBROOK MOHR Itawamba County Sheriff’s Department deputies finish inspecting a home and property in the Ozark community, northeast of Tupelo, Miss., Thursday, April 25, 2013. The officers were looking…
VENEZUELA WRESTLES OVER TRUTH OF BOMBING CLAIMS
By VIVIAN SEQUERA and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN FILE – In this June 3, 2012 file photo, Iris Varela, Venezuela’s Minister of Prisons, right, speaks to Wilmer Apostol, Venezuela’s Director of Prisons,…
LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS DENOUNCES BBC TACTICS
By GREGORY KATZ The name plaque outside the London School of Economics (LSE) in this file photo dated Sept. 3, 2009, in central London. The renowned LSE has denounced the…
THE WELL-GREASED VOTE MACHINE CHAVEZ LEFT
By FABIOLA SANCHEZ Children hold up posters of Venezuela’s late President Hugo Chavez and one of ruling party candidate Nicolas Maduro as a campaign convoy drives along in Caracas, Venezuela,…
BANGLADESH POLICE ARREST NEWSPAPER’S ACTING EDITOR
Bangladeshi newspaper editor Mahmudur Rahman, center, is brought to a court following his arrest in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, April 11, 2013. Police in Bangladesh arrested the acting editor of the…
FASHION DESIGNER LILLY PULITZER DIES AT 81
By JENNIFER KAY FILE – In this March 16, 1965 file photo, Palm Beach the fashion designer Lilly Pulitzer, wears her own design and creation of the Lilly shift, in…
OBAMA: CALIF. ATTORNEY GENERAL IS ‘BEST-LOOKING’
FILE — in this Feb. 16, 2012 file photo President Barack Obama walks with California Attorney General Kamala Harris, center, and California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, after arriving at San…