EU’S ASHTON: YANUKOVYCH WANTS TO SIGN EU DEAL
By JIM HEINTZ and RAF CASERT Pro-European Union activists are trained to resist police inside their tent camp at Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013. Ukraine was…
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PUTIN ANNOUNCES CRACKDOWN ON OFFSHORE COMPANIES
By NATALIYA VASILYEVA Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a state of the nation address in the Kremlin in Moscow, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev) MOSCOW (AP) — Russian…
SYRIAN REBEL SPOKESMAN DECRIES US, UK AID DECISION
By BASSEM MROUE This image made on a government-organized media tour for local journalists shows people returning to the western town of Nabek, which Syrian troops took full control of…
DETROIT MAYOR TOUTS ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN LAST SPEECH
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing speaks in Detroit before the Detroit Economic Club Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013, his last formal speech about his four years in office in Detroit. Bing, a…
FDA TAKES STEPS TO PHASE OUT ANTIBIOTICS IN MEAT
By MARY CLARE JALONICK FILE – This April 11, 2012 file photo shows turkeys raised without the use of antibiotics at David Martin’s farm, in Lebanon, Pa. Citing a potential…
A tribute to Rebecca Lueke from her dad
Rebecca Lueke of Kansas City, who was known as Becca, was killed … Lueke, 18, was a freshman at Benedictine College in Atchison. … Lueke was a four-year varsity player…
DESMOND TUTU HOME ROBBED; WAS AT MANDELA MEMORIAL
By RAY FAURE Retired Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu speaks at the memorial service for former South African president Nelson Mandela at the FNB Stadium in Soweto near Johannesburg, Tuesday, Dec.…
HO– USE REPUBLICANS SIGNAL SUPPORT FOR BUDGET DEAL
By ANDREW TAYLOR House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, left, joined by House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., takes reporters’ questions, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec.…