PASSENGERS RESCUED OFF SHIP STUCK IN ANTARCTIC ICE
By ROD McGUIRK In this photo provided China’s official Xinhnua News Agency, the first group of passengers of the trapped Russian ship MV Akademik Shokalskiy arrive at a safe surface…
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BARBARA BUSH REMAINS HOSPITALIZED IN HOUSTON
FILE – In this Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013 file photo, former first lady Barbara Bush listens to a patient’s question during a visit to the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital at…
LEGAL RECREATIONAL POT INDUSTRY OPENS IN COLORADO
By KRISTEN WYATT Partygoers smoke marijuana, left, and cigarettes during a Prohibition-era themed New Year’s Eve party celebrating the start of retail pot sales, at a bar in Denver, late…
MURDER-SUICIDE SUSPECTED IN 4 CALIFORNIA DEATH
By TAMI ABDOLLAH Neighbors look on Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013, as Fontana, Calif. police investigate the house where a family of four were found shot to death on Monday night.…
DE BLASIO VOWS SWEEPING CHANGE AS NYC’S NEXT MAYOR
By JONATHAN LEMIRE Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio stands with his wife, Chirlane McCray as they talk with school children at MS 51 after he announced Carmen Farina as the next…
UTAH ASKS SUPREME COURT TO BLOCK SAME-SEX UNIONS
FILE – In this Dec. 20, 2013, file photo, same-sex couples Natalie Dicou, left, and Nichole Christensen, middle left, and James Goodman, middle right, and Jeffrey Gomez, right, wait in…
SAFETY QUESTIONS AFTER ND OIL TRAIN DERAILMENT
By DAVE KOLPACK and JAMES MacPHERSON A fireball goes up at the site of an oil train derailment Monday, Dec 30, 2013, in Casselton, N.D. The train carrying crude oil…
S SUDAN REBELS TAKE MOST OF STRATEGIC CITY OF BOR
By JASON STRAZIUSO The United States special envoy to South Sudan Donald Booth speaks to the media, as U.S. Ambassador to South Sudan Susan D. Page, left, listens in Juba,…