DEMOCRAT BOOKER WINS US SENATE ELECTION IN NJ
By KATIE ZEZIMA and GEOFF MULVIHILL Newark Mayor Cory Booker talks to supporters during an election night victory party after winning a special election for the U.S. Senate, Wednesday, Oct.…
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DUTCH DIPLOMAT BEATEN IN MOSCOW AT TIME OF TENSION
By LYNN BERRY A woman walks past the embassy of the Netherlands in Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013. A Dutch diplomat was beaten up by two unidentified men…
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…
PURPORTED WHITE SUPREMACISTS ARRESTED IN ARIZONA
By FELICIA FONSECA and BRIAN SKOLOFF This Oct. 14, 2013 photo provided by the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives shows agents who executive a search warrant at…
NEW VATICAN NO. 2 A NO-SHOW AT HANDOVER CEREMONY
By NICOLE WINFIELD FILE – In this Feb. 16, 2009 file photo Monsignor Pietro Parolin attends a meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam. Pope Francis bid farewell Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013, to…
HIGH COURT WEIGHS MICHIGAN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION BAN
By MARK SHERMAN FILE – In this Nov. 2, 2010, file photo then-Michigan Attorney General-elect Bill Schuette speaks in Detroit. After the Supreme Court ruled a decade ago that race…
RELICS TRANSFORM SMALL CALIFORNIA BUDDHIST TEMPLE
By JOHN ROGERS In this Sept. 18, 2013, photo, Dharma Master YongHua displays a bottle containing aromatic shariras, part of the temple collection of Buddhist relics at the Lu Mountain…
GROWING BACKLASH TO GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE
By The Associated Press Software engineer and entrepreneur Jeff Lyon stands for a photo in San Jose, Calif. on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013. Lyon spent Labor Day weekend developing “Flagger,”…