OBAMA: SEX ASSAULT AN AFFRONT TO DECENCY, HUMANITY
By NEDRA PICKLER FILE – In this Jan. 17, 2014 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks at the Justice Department in Washington. President Barack Obama is launching an initiative to…
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DAD OF NM SHOOTING VICTIM: SHOOTER ‘NOT A BAD BOY’
Students surrounded by officials are escorted from Berrendo Middle School after a shooting, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, in Roswell, N.M. Roswell police said the suspected shooter was arrested at the…
RIGHTS GROUP CALLS FOR ‘REAL PRESSURE’ ON SYRIA
By FRANK JORDANS Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, speaks during the annual press conference of the non governmental organization in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014. The…
UN WITHDRAWS IRAN INVITATION TO SYRIA TALKS
By CARA ANNA Jordanian Foreign Minister and President of the United Nations Security Council Nasser Judeh , right, listens to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon during a meeting of the United…
DISENROLLMENT LEAVES NATIVES ‘CULTURALLY HOMELESS’
By GOSIA WOZNIACKA Mia Prickett holds her Confederated Tribe of Grande Ronde enrollment card along with a recent notice of potential potential disenrollment from the tribe in Portland, Ore., Thursday,…
PARADES, MARCHES AND SERVICE PROJECTS HONOR MLK
By PHILLIP LUCAS Dr. Anthony Brooks ends his keynote speech celebrating the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during the Henderson County Black History Committee’s program at…
SYRIAN OPPOSITION ISSUES ULTIMATUM ON PEACE TALKS
By BASSEM MROUE and LORI HINNANT FILE – In this Friday, Nov. 16, 2012 file photo, A Free Syrian Army fighter stands next to a painting on a piece of…
NJ MAYOR RATCHETS UP ALLEGATION AGAINST CHRISTIE
By ANGELA DELLI SANTI New Jersey Assemblymen John S. Wisniewski, center, D-Sayreville, N.J., Lou D. Greenwald, left, D-Vorhees, N.J., and incoming Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto, D-Secaucus, N.J., address the media…