| 9/11 remains returned to World Trade Center site Posted: 10 May 2014 10:02 AM PDT  The unidentified remains of those killed on Sept. 11 returned to the World Trade Center site in a solemn procession on a foggy Saturday morning.
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| Arkansas clerk issues 1st gay marriage license Posted: 10 May 2014 09:29 AM PDT  EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark. (AP) — Two women were married on a sidewalk outside a county courthouse in Arkansas on Saturday, breaking a barrier that state voters put in place with a constitutional amendment 10 years ago.
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| 1 body recovered from Va. balloon crash; 2 missing Posted: 10 May 2014 07:55 AM PDT  The body of one occupant of a hot air balloon that caught fire and crashed has been recovered and police searched Saturday for two others feared dead, Virginia State Police said.
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| Ukraine's leader gains stature with honest image Posted: 10 May 2014 01:57 AM PDT  KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — When new Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk invited anti-corruption activists to his apartment in Kiev last month, the first thing he showed off was his toilet. "See for yourself," Yatsenyuk joked. "It's not gold."
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| Nigeria refused help to search for kidnapped girls Posted: 10 May 2014 10:54 AM PDT  LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The president of Nigeria for weeks refused international help to search for more than 300 girls abducted from a school by Islamic extremists, one in a series of missteps that have led to growing international outrage against the government.
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| First lady's address on kidnapped Nigerian girls Posted: 10 May 2014 08:15 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Michelle Obama on Saturday decried the kidnapping of scores of Nigerian schoolgirls who have been missing for nearly a month and used their plight to speak out for the rights of girls everywhere to get an education.
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| 2nd body recovered from Va. balloon crash Posted: 10 May 2014 10:06 AM PDT DOSWELL, Va. (AP) — A second body has been recovered in the fiery crash of a hot air balloon in Virginia. |
| Eastern Ukraine's vote: a key moment Posted: 10 May 2014 08:45 AM PDT  MOSCOW (AP) — People in two regions of restive eastern Ukraine — Donetsk and Luhansk — will vote Sunday on declaring sovereignty. The plebiscites, hastily arranged by pro-Russia insurgents who have seized government buildings over the past month, are denounced both by the central government in Kiev and the West, and it is unclear whether they will be recognized by Moscow in light of Russian President Vladimir Putin's call for the vote to be postponed. Issues of legitimacy aside, the vote is sure to add to tensions in an area already gripped by rebellion and sporadic clashes between militants and Ukrainian forces.
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| Analysis: How Syria's Assad seized momentum in war Posted: 10 May 2014 10:51 AM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — Two years ago, it seemed almost inevitable that Syrian President Bashar Assad would be toppled. Despite a fierce military crackdown, people were still taking to the streets in exuberant anti-government protests and rebels were pressing their fight deeper into the capital, even placing a bomb inside a high-level security meeting that killed top regime officials including Assad's brother-in-law.
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| 2014 NFL Draft: Decision day for Michael Sam Posted: 10 May 2014 12:42 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Decision day has arrived for Michael Sam.
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| Insurgents blow up 2nd bridge, abduct wife, 2 kids Posted: 10 May 2014 10:50 AM PDT  YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — Islamic extremists blew up a bridge, killed an unknown number of people and abducted the wife and two children of a retired police officer in northeast Nigeria, residents said Saturday as an international effort got underway to rescue 276 schoolgirls kidnapped by the militants.
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| Thousands of Syrians enter Homs after rebels leave Posted: 10 May 2014 06:09 AM PDT  HOMS, Syria (AP) — Thousands of Syrians streamed into war-battered parts of the central city of Homs for the first time in nearly two years Saturday, many making plans to move back just days after rebels surrendered their strongholds to pro-government forces.
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| Support for kidnapped girls continues to grow Posted: 09 May 2014 07:28 PM PDT  Celebrities and political leaders join the movement to help secure the return of the Nigerian girls.
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| Michelle Obama 'outraged' over Nigeria kidnapped girls Posted: 10 May 2014 06:27 AM PDT  U.S. first lady Michelle Obama took the rare step of delivering her husband President Barack Obama's weekly radio address on Saturday to express outrage over the kidnapping of some 200 girls in Nigeria last month. \"Like millions of people across the globe, my husband and I are outraged and heartbroken over the kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian girls from their school dormitory in the middle of the night,\" Mrs. Obama said in the address. \"This unconscionable act was committed by a terrorist group determined to keep these girls from getting an education - grown men attempting to snuff out the aspirations of young girls.\" Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said on Friday he believed the girls, abducted by militant Islamist group Boko Haram, were still in his country. The United States offered this week to send a team of experts to Nigeria to support the government's response effort, which has been criticized for being slow.
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| Rubio: Democrats threaten American dream Posted: 09 May 2014 06:59 PM PDT  NEW CASTLE, N.H. (AP) — Reaffirming his national political ambitions, Sen. Marco Rubio accused Democrats on Friday of threatening the American dream as he campaigned across New Hampshire, appearing in the first-in-the-nation presidential primary state for the first time in 18 months.
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| Benghazi panel puts Democrats in a tough spot Posted: 09 May 2014 02:01 PM PDT  Leadership in talks over role Democrats would play if they choose to join hearing.
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| Arkansas judge strikes down gay marriage ban Posted: 09 May 2014 06:47 PM PDT  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A judge on Friday struck down Arkansas' ban on same-sex marriage, saying the state has "no rational reason" for preventing gay couples from marrying.
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| Blind high school vaulter nearly medals at state championships Posted: 09 May 2014 06:42 PM PDT  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Charlotte Brown used her seeing-eye dog to navigate the track. An electronic beeper with a high-pitched signal told her when it was time to jump.
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| NBA picks Parsons as interim Clippers CEO Posted: 09 May 2014 06:28 PM PDT  Ex-Time Warner boss will oversee team while NBA tries to force Donald Sterling to sell it.
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| Family of soldier kidnapped in Iraq learns of killer's confession Posted: 09 May 2014 11:33 AM PDT  CINCINNATI (AP) — A man in Iraqi custody has confessed to killing a U.S. soldier whose remains were found in 2008, four years after he was kidnapped by insurgents and a video showed him surrounded by armed captors, an Army spokeswoman told The Associated Press on Friday.
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| Court weighs death row inmates' sweat lodge request Posted: 09 May 2014 12:09 PM PDT  Three inmates on Kentucky's death row want a sweat lodge, pow wow and traditional foods to conduct Native American religious ceremonies behind bars — requests the prison system has at least in part declined to fulfill.
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| British, U.S. experts join Nigeria search for girls Posted: 09 May 2014 03:45 PM PDT The international effort to rescue the 276 schoolgirls being held captive by Islamic extremists in northeastern Nigeria was boosted Friday when British security experts joined the Nigerian and American forces trying to rescue the missing students. |
| Is the Kremlin plotting a 'USSR lite'? Posted: 09 May 2014 10:11 AM PDT  On Victory Day, Putin hints at new doctrine mixing Soviet nostalgia with ethnic themes.
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