DEMOCRATS WORK TO RAISE NUMBER OF FEMALE GOVERNORS
By STEVE PEOPLES FILE – In this Sept. 27, 2013, file photo, New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan speaks at an Emily’s List town hall discussion entitled “Madam President” in Manchester,…
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HEALTH PLAN STICKER SHOCK AHEAD FOR SOME BUYERS
By CARLA K. JOHNSON FILE – In this Dec. 3, 2013 file photo, actor Adrienne Matzen poses in Chicago’s theater district. Matzen, 29, who has been mostly uninsured since she…
AL-QAIDA IN YEMEN APOLOGIZES FOR HOSPITAL ATTACK
By MAAMOUN YOUSSEF FILE – This Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013 file photo provided by Yemen’s Defense Ministry shows paramedics loading a victim into an ambulance after an explosion at the…
ISRAELI MINISTERS DEMAND END TO US SPYING
By DANIEL ESTRIN FILE – This June 6, 2013, file photo shows the sign outside the National Security Agency campus in Fort Meade, Md. A presidential advisory panel has recommended…
CALIFORNIA LATINOS SHOW DEEP ROOTS IN US
By GOSIA WOZNIACKA, ELLIOT SPAGAT and AMY TAXIN In this July 16, 2013 photo, Hilario Santiago Vasquez, right, looks on as his wife Josefina Hernandez Santiago holds the couple’s 5-month-old…
3 US MILITARY AIRCRAFT HIT IN S. SUDAN, 4 WOUNDED
By JASON STRAZIUSO FILE – In this June 7, 2007 file photo, a CV-22 Osprey aircraft stationed at Kirtland Air Force Base kicks up a cloud of dust as it…
RAUL CASTRO ISSUES STERN WARNING TO ENTREPRENEURS
By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN and ANDREA RODRIGUEZ Cuba’s President Raul Castro delivers his speech at the closing of the second day of a twice-annual legislative sessions, at the National Assembly in…
NASA ASTRONAUTS TACKLE URGENT SPACEWALKING REPAIRS
By MARCIA DUNN In this image made from video provided by NASA, astronaut Rick Mastracchio performs a space walk outside the International Space Station on Saturday, Dec. 21, 2013. Mastracchio…