First lady expands effort to end vet homelessness
By STACY A. ANDERSON First lady Michelle Obama speaks at the 2014 National Conference on Ending Homelessness, part of the Joining Forces initiative, Thursday, July 31, 2014, in Washington. (AP…
Poverty
SOUTHWEST, SOUTH SCORE LOW ON CHILD-WELFARE INDEX
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Several states in the Deep South and Southwest have earned dismal scores on an annual child-welfare index that cited poverty and single-parent house households as worrisome…
EMOTIONS FLOW AS CALIF. POLICE ACQUITTED IN DEATH
By GILLIAN FLACCUS ADDS LOCATION-Former Fullerton police Officer Manuel Ramos reacts after being acquitted Monday Jan. 13, 2014, in Santa Ana, Calif., of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter charges stemming…
US ‘LOST BOY’ AMONG MANY FLEEING S SUDAN VIOLENCE
By BEN CURTIS In this photo taken Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014, Phillip Madol, 33, left, one of the thousands who fled the recent fighting between government and rebel forces in…
NKOREA DEFECTOR TESTIFIES AT UN RIGHTS PROBE IN US
By MATTHEW PENNINGTON Jin hye Jo wipes a tear as she testifies during a hearing of the United Nations mandated Commission of Inquiry about the human rights situation in the…
TESTS PROVE ROMA COUPLE ARE MYSTERY GIRL’S PARENTS
By VESELIN TOSHKOV and NICHOLAS PAPHITIS In this undated photo released by charity ”The Smile of the Child” shows a 4-year-old girl at an unknown location. Greek authorities on Friday,…
AP PHOTOS: SKID ROW, A BATTLE OF MISERY AND HOPE
By JAE C. HONG George Mendez, foreground, a 55-year-old recovering alcoholic, sits in front of a drunk woman in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles on Tuesday, July 23,…
TRIAL OF CAMBODIA’S KHMER ROUGE LEADERS NEARS END
By JUSTINE DRENNAN FILE – In this Aug. 29, 2011 file photo released by Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Nuon Chea, who was Pol Pot’s No. 2 and…