PROTESTS OVER RUSSIAN ANTI-GAY LAW FOCUS ON SOCHI
By DAVID CRARY FILE – In this Saturday, Aug. 10, 2013 file photo, demonstrators stage a theatrical play where gays are grabbed by others wearing masks of Russian President Vladimir…
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SYSTEMIC PERSONNEL PROBLEMS SEEN IN NUCLEAR CORPS
By LOLITA C. BALDOR and ROBERT BURNS FILE – This Jan. 9, 2014 file photo shows a mockup of a Minuteman 3 nuclear missile used for training by missile maintenance…
AFGHAN EXPRESSES OPTIMISM KARZAI WILL SIGN US PACT
By KAY JOHNSON Afghan National Security Adviser Rangin Dadfar Spanta addresses a news conference at presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014. President Hamid Karzai’s national security adviser…
GLOBAL “ELDERS” URGE IRAN TO BUILD ON NUCLEAR DEAL
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI Kofi Annan, former U.N secretary general, center, reads a statement at the conclusion of his meeting with Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Tehran, Iran,…
FOR GOVERNORS WITH AN EYE ON 2016, A KEY SPEECH
By KEN THOMAS and SCOTT BAUER FILE – Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker acknowledges guests during his State of the State address to a joint session of the Legislature in the…
POLICE IDENTIFY SHOOTER IN MARYLAND MALL SHOOTING
BEN NUCKOLS Two people embrace in the parking lot at the scene of a shooting at The Mall in Columbia on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014 in Columbia, Md. Police say…
POLICE: SLAIN OFFICER WAS SEEKING STOLEN LAPTOP
By TERRY COLLINS and CHANNING JOSEPH Law enforcement officers salute as the body of a Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer draped with the American flag is loaded into an…
SYRIAN PEACE TALKS STUCK OVER ASSAD’S FUTURE
By MATTHEW LEE and ZEINA KARAM U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, talks to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon prior to the Syrian peace talks in Montreux, Switzerland, Wednesday, Jan.…