LA. GOVERNOR DEMANDS FEDS DROP SUIT AGAINST STATE
By PHILIP ELLIOTT In this Aug. 30, 2013, photo, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal speaks at the Americans for Prosperity Foundation’s Defending the American Dream Summit in Orlando. Jindal on Wednesday,…
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PEOPLE MARCH AGAINST GREEK SEGREGATION AT ALABAMA
By JAY REEVES In this Aug. 17, 2013 photo, female students at the University of Alabama prepare to run from Bryant-Denny Stadium to their new sorority houses after receiving their…
CONTRACT WORKER BEHIND NAVY YARD SHOOTING RAMPAGE
By ERIC TUCKER, BRETT ZONGKER and LOLITA C. BALDOR People hold their hands to their heads as they are escorted out of the building where a gunman was reported at…
EGYPTIAN SECURITY FORCES STORM SOUTHERN TOWN
By HAMZA HENDAWI FILE — In this Sept. 3, 2013 file photo, Egyptian Christian villagers clean up the damaged ancient chapel inside the Virgin Mary and St. Abraam Monastery that…
GREECE: SCHOOLS SHUT, PROTESTERS PEPPER SPRAYED
By ELENA BECATOROS and DEREK GATOPOULOS Striking teachers protest in Thessaloniki on Monday, Sept. 16, 2013. Thousands of school teachers and other civil servants held an afternoon demonstration to demand…
UN: ‘CONVINCING EVIDENCE’ OF SYRIA CHEMICAL ATTACK
By EDITH M. LEDERER This photo released by the United Nations shows professor Ake Sellstrom, head of the chemical weapons team working in Syria, handing over the report on the…
13-YR-OLD INDIAN GIRL BEGINS MICROBIOLOGY MASTER’S
By BISWAJEET BANERJEE In this Sunday, Sept. 15, 2013 photo, Sushma Verma, 13, attends a ceremony organized by Sulabh International Social Service Organization to recognize her as “India’s Child Prodigy”…
ALABAMA CHURCH MARKS 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF BOMBING
By JAY REEVES Churchgoers file outside the church as a wreath is carried at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., Sunday, Sept. 15, 2013. The congregation gathered outside…