THE WELL-GREASED VOTE MACHINE CHAVEZ LEFT
By FABIOLA SANCHEZ Children hold up posters of Venezuela’s late President Hugo Chavez and one of ruling party candidate Nicolas Maduro as a campaign convoy drives along in Caracas, Venezuela,…
Wave of the future
TEXAS RETHINKING ITS TESTING, CURRICULUM STANDARDS
By WILL WEISSERT Socar Chatmon-Thomas, center, stands with her daughters Isabella, left, and Guinevere, right, outside their school in Austin, Texas on Monday, April 8, 2013. Texas has been a…
JUDGE DENIES $20M SEVERANCE DEAL FOR AMR CEO
By DAVID KOENIG In this Monday, Oct. 8, 2012 photo, American Airlines CEO Tom Horton talks to a reporter in New York. A federal bankruptcy judge has denied a proposed…
CAMERON IN GERMANY FOR TALKS ON EUROPEAN REFORM
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron look on as they stroll inside the yard of the government’s guest house Schloss Meseberg, 70 km (44 miles) north…
KERRY TO NORTH KOREA: DON’T TEST MISSILE
By BRADLEY KLAPPER U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, talks with South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se during a joint press conference at Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea,…
ARREST MADE IN MUGGING OF FORMER NEWARK MAYOR
By KATIE ZEZIMA FILE – In this Tuesday, July 29, 2008 file photo, former Newark Mayor Sharpe James, center, leaves the U.S. District Court in Newark, N.J., after he was…
‘KOOL-AID MAN’ GETS A NEW LOOK _ AND A PERSONALITY
By CANDICE CHOI This computer-generated image provided by Kraft Foods Group Inc. on Friday, April 12, 2013 shows the new “Kool-Aid Man.” Kool-Aid is unveiling a new look for its…
CHINA REPORTS NEW BIRD FLU DEATH, 2 NEW INFECTIONS
Chickens are hung in line at a slaughterhouse, approved by the municipal government to process poultry, after live poultry trading was banned following the H7N9 bird flu outbreak, in Pudong,…