CLOSE FRIEND: GA. SCHOOL SUSPECT WAS MENTALLY ILL
By KATE BRUMBACK Shanique Worthey, right, is embraced by her mother Daphne Morris, while waiting to be reunited with her son five-year-old son Skyler Worthey as students from Ronald E.…
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NIXON TAPES REVEAL PRIVATE TALK WITH SOVIET LEADER
By GILLIAN FLACCUS FILE – In this April 29, 1974, file photo, President Richard M. Nixon points to the transcripts of the White House tapes after he announced during a…
MYANMAR MOB SWARMS CAR OF UN RIGHTS ENVOY
U.N. Human Rights envoy to Myanmar Tomas Ojea Quintana, speaks during a press conference before he departs from Yangon International Airport Wednesday, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013, in Yangon, Myanmar. The…
CIVIL RIGHTS INCLUDES GAYS 50 YEARS AFTER MARCH
By BRETT ZONGKER FILE – In this Aug. 1, 1963 black-and-white photo, Bayard Rustin, leader of the “March on Washington” speaks at the National Headquarters. Months before Martin Luther King…
JAPAN NUCLEAR WATCHDOG MAY RAISE LEAK TO ‘SERIOUS
By MARI YAMAGUCHI This Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013 aerial photo shows the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant at Okuma in Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan. The Japanese nuclear watchdog proposed Wednesday to…
SYRIAN ACTIVISTS CLAIM DEADLY ‘TOXIC GAS’ ATTACK
By BASSEM MROUE and ZEINA KARAM This citizen journalism image provided by the Local Committee of Arbeen which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows…
MANNING SENTENCED TO 35 YEARS IN WIKILEAKS CASE
By DAVID DISHNEAU and PAULINE JELINEK Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted into a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013, before a sentencing hearing in his court…
ACTIVISTS SCUFFLE WITH SWEDISH POLICE OVER MINING
JOKKMOKK, Sweden (AP) — Police have removed some 50 screaming and singing activists who were blocking a road in northern Sweden to protest a British company’s plans to build an…