ACTIVIST POET-PLAYWRIGHT AMIRI BARAKA DIES AT 79
By HILLEL ITALIE FILE – This Oct. 2, 2002 file photo shows Amiri Baraka, New Jersey’s poet laureate during a ceremony at the Newark Public Library in Newark, N.J. Baraka,…
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CARGO SHIP WITH CARGO SHIP WITH GIFTS, ANTS HEADS TO SPACE STATIONGIFTS, ANTS HEADS TO SPACE STATION
By MARCIA DUNN This photo provided by NASA shows an Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket launches at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014, Wallops Island, Va. Antares is…
PENTAGON CHIEF IN RARE VISIT TO NUKE MISSILE BASE
By ROBERT BURNSU.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel talks with retired Army Col. Rebecca Hooper, program manager for the Center for the Intrepid, after Hagel spoke to soldiers, veterans and…
OBAMA PONDERS LIMITING NSA ACCESS TO PHONE RECORDS
By JULIE PACE FILE – In this Dec. 20, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks during an end-of-the year news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the…
CHRISTIE FACES POLITICAL FALLOUT OVER TRAFFIC JAM
By ANGELA DELLI SANTI and STEVE PEOPLES FILE – In this Dec. 19, 2013 file photo, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks in Trenton, N.J. A day after revelations that…
PLENTY OF UNKNOWNS IN HOW TO IMPEACH ARK. LT. GOV.
Arkansas Lt. Gov. Mark Darr is interviewed at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014. Darr said he won’t resign over ethics violations tied to…
KY. LAWMAKER FIRES GUN IN OFFICE, CALLS IT MISTAKE
By BRUCE SCHREINER FILE – In this Feb. 28, 2012 file photo, Kentucky House Rep. Leslie Combs, D-Pikeville, questions Morehead State University President Wayne Andrews during a session of the…
AUTHORITIES AT CRASH SITE WORK TO REMOVE 4 DEAD
By SYLVIA HUI and LOLITA BALDOR Undated image made available by the US Air Force Tuesday Jan. 7 2014 of a USAF HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter of the same type…