The Latest: UN: 100 migrants rescued off Libya; 200 missing
By The Associated Press Here are the latest developments Friday regarding the tens of thousands of migrants trying to reach Europe. ___ 12:40 p.m. U.N. authorities say 100 people have…
Social issues
Same-sex couple cheers gay marriage ruling in Kentucky
By CLAIRE GALOFARO and ADAM BEAM April Miller and Karen Roberts hugged as the news flashed across their television screen, and their hug turned into a brief slow dance across…
Wave of EU-bound migrants crosses into Serbia
By DUSAN STOJANOVIC In a new human wave surging through the Balkans, thousands of exhausted migrants from the Middle East, Asia and Africa crossed on foot Monday from Macedonia into…
Human rights group slams Egypt’s new anti-terrorism law
By BRIAN ROHAN Egypt’s sweeping new counterterrorism law erodes basic rights and defines terrorism so broadly that it could encompass civil disobedience and be used to stifle dissent, Human Rights…
Thousands of migrants rush past police into Macedonia
By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Thousands of migrants on Saturday rushed past baton-wielding Macedonian police who were attempting to block them from entering Macedonia from Greece. Police fired stun grenades and several…
Elite prep school tackles ‘hook-up’ culture amid rape case
By RIK STEVENS A New Hampshire prep school that has educated some of the nation’s elite for more than a century and a half is confronting a campus practice of…
IS beheads leading Syrian antiquities scholar in Palmyra
By ALBERT AJI and BASSEM MROUE Islamic State militants beheaded a leading Syrian antiquities scholar who spent most of his life looking after the ancient ruins of Palmyra, then hung…
Longtime Ohio Congressman Louis Stokes dies at 90
Former U.S. Rep. Louis Stokes, a 15-term congressman from Ohio who took on tough assignments looking into assassinations and scandals, has died. He was 90. He died peacefully with his…