55 schools face U.S. federal sex assault probe

55 schools face U.S. federal sex assault probe
Florida jail blast kills 2, injures 150
Heartbreaking video shows students as ferry sinks
Malaysia releases preliminary report into MH370
Pro-Russian protesters storm prosecutor's office in Ukraine's Donetsk
China points to suicide blast in Urumqi attack
Matt Bai: The time has come to make you vote
Toronto mayor takes leave of absence
When the White House hates your tweet
100,000 march as Moscow revives May Day tradition
A race against wind in California wildfire fight
New video emerges from inside South Korean ferry as ship sank
GOP senators: Arm Ukraine, hit Russian banks
Train carrying crude derails into Virginia river
Underground website for drug sales is back and thriving, report says
Irish Sinn Fein leader held over woman's 1972 murder
Editor who catapulted Mad magazine into pop culture dies at 88
Kidnapped Nigerian girls reportedly married off to captors
Experiment grows new muscle in men's injured legs
Who's got game? Breaking down potential Clippers bidders
Military sex assault reports up 50 percent
10 Things to See: A week of top AP photos
Witness: US response to Benghazi attack too weak
Iraq: Al-Maliki calls vote 'slap' to terrorism

Posted: 01 May 2014 10:09 AM PDT

The Dept. of Education investigates institutions' handling of sexual abuse complaints.

Florida jail blast kills 2, injures 150

Posted: 01 May 2014 08:55 AM PDT

Three inmates were unaccounted for after explosion on Thursday, police said.

Heartbreaking video shows students as ferry sinks

Posted: 01 May 2014 09:40 AM PDT

Soon after the ferry begins to tilt, nervous laughter can be heard from the high school students huddled below deck. In video clips from the cellphone of a victim of a disaster that has shaken South Korea, the teenagers talk of taking selfies, wonder if they'll make the news and discuss posting about the excitement later on Facebook.

Malaysia releases preliminary report into MH370

Posted: 01 May 2014 09:18 AM PDT

Brief reveals 17-minute lapse between jet's disappearance from radar and ATC's response.

Pro-Russian protesters storm prosecutor's office in Ukraine's Donetsk

Posted: 01 May 2014 07:23 AM PDT

Pro-Russian protesters stormed the prosecutor's office in the separatist-held city of Donetsk on Thursday, lobbing stones and smashing windows after accusing the office of working for the Western-backed government in Kiev. Donetsk, a city of about 1 million people in Ukraine's industrial east, is at the center of an armed uprising across the steel and coal belt by mainly Russian-speakers threatening to secede from Ukraine. "The prosecutor's office was issuing criminal orders from Kiev against its own people, charging them with separatism and other fake crimes," said one protester, a 43-year-old man from Donetsk who gave his name as Igor. Interfax-Ukraine news agency said the protesters had allowed security officers inside the building to leave, but that some were wounded.

China points to suicide blast in Urumqi attack

Posted: 01 May 2014 06:53 AM PDT

Chinese authorities said Thursday that two religious extremists carried out a terror attack at a train station in far-western Xinjiang region by detonating explosives, in an apparent suicide bombing that also killed one other person and wounded 79.

Matt Bai: The time has come to make you vote

Posted: 01 May 2014 02:03 AM PDT

Word is that Sean Parker, the 34-year-old Web visionary who built Napster and then helped grow Facebook, is the latest billionaire with an idea to save the political system, or at least a lot of money in search of an idea to save the political system. Parker and other investors are said to be planning a startup aimed at organizing disaffected voters. They've hired some well-connected Washington consultants, because that's what you do when you really want to stick it to the status quo.

Toronto mayor takes leave of absence

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 07:30 PM PDT

Rob Ford acknowledges that he has a problem with alcohol and says he will be seeking help.

When the White House hates your tweet

Posted: 01 May 2014 03:34 AM PDT

For Pres. Obama, reporters' tweets are a kind of early warning system. Find out who sounds the alarm.

100,000 march as Moscow revives May Day tradition

Posted: 01 May 2014 02:23 AM PDT

It's the first time the parade has been held on Red Square since the fall of the Soviet Union.

A race against wind in California wildfire fight

Posted: 01 May 2014 01:42 AM PDT

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters battling a smoky blaze in the foothills east of Los Angeles hoped to take advantage of a brief respite from the fierce, hot winds that initially pushed the fire into the path of more than 1,500 homes.

New video emerges from inside South Korean ferry as ship sank

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 06:34 PM PDT

A 15 minute video taken from inside the sinking ferry reveals that the student passengers were instructed to stay inside their cabins even as the ship's captain and crew fled the vessel.

GOP senators: Arm Ukraine, hit Russian banks

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 12:45 PM PDT

Saying President Obama hasn't been tough enough on Russia, a high-powered group of Republican senators introduced legislation on Wednesday aimed at imposing new sanctions on Moscow over its actions in Ukraine.

Train carrying crude derails into Virginia river

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 03:19 PM PDT

Hundreds evacuated from downtown Lynchburg as burning oil spills into Chesapeake system.

Underground website for drug sales is back and thriving, report says

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Irish Sinn Fein leader held over woman's 1972 murder

Posted: 01 May 2014 03:06 AM PDT

Irish republican leader Gerry Adams, head of the Sinn Fein political party, was on Wednesday questioned over the murder of a woman in 1972, the party said in a statement. "Last month Gerry Adams said he was available to meet the PSNI (Police Service of Northern Ireland) about the Jean McConville case," said a statement on the party's website. McConville, a 37-year-old mother of 10, was snatched from her west Belfast flat and shot by republican paramilitaries, accused of passing information to the British army. In 1999 the IRA admitted her murder and her remains were found on a beach in County Louth four years later.

Editor who catapulted Mad magazine into pop culture dies at 88

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 12:28 PM PDT

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Al Feldstein, whose 28 years at the helm of Mad magazine transformed the satirical publication into a pop culture institution, has died. He was 88.

Kidnapped Nigerian girls reportedly married off to captors

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 01:02 PM PDT

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Scores of girls and young women kidnapped from a school in Nigeria are being forced to marry their Islamic extremist abductors, a civic organization reported Wednesday.

Experiment grows new muscle in men's injured legs

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 11:25 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists implanted thin sheets of scaffolding-like material from pigs into a few young men with disabling leg injuries — and say the experimental treatment coaxed the men's own stem cells to regrow new muscle.

Who's got game? Breaking down potential Clippers bidders

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Military sex assault reports up 50 percent

Posted: 01 May 2014 10:42 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says sexual assaults are a threat to both women and men in uniform. And he says the Pentagon must do more to fight a culture that discourages victims from reporting assault.

10 Things to See: A week of top AP photos

Posted: 01 May 2014 09:01 AM PDT

Here's your look at highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see.

Witness: US response to Benghazi attack too weak

Posted: 01 May 2014 10:16 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — A retired general who was in the U.S. military's operation center during the 2012 attack on the diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, said Thursday that Washington should have done more to respond during the battle.

Iraq: Al-Maliki calls vote 'slap' to terrorism

Posted: 01 May 2014 10:42 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's prime minister hailed a high turnout in nationwide elections as a "slap in the face of terrorism" Thursday, but his upbeat comments were tempered by a U.N. announcement that last month's death toll was the highest so far this year amid a sharp spike in sectarian bloodshed.