Top IRS official didn't reveal tea party targeting
Written by STEPHEN OHLEMACHER,Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress was not told tea party groups were being inappropriately targeted by the Internal Revenue Service, even after acting agency Chief Steven Miller had been briefed on the matter.
Angelina Jolie says she had double mastectomy
Written by AP
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Angelina Jolie says that she has had a preventive double mastectomy after learning she carried a gene that made it extremely likely she would get breast cancer.
Police vow to solve shootings of 19 in New Orleans
Written by CHEVEL JOHNSON,Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Video released early Monday by New Orleans police shows a possible suspect in the Mother's Day gunfire that wounded 19 people during a neighborhood parade.
Plans to export US natural gas stir debate
Written by MATTHEW DALY,Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — A domestic natural gas boom already has lowered U.S. energy prices while stoking fears of environmental disaster. Now U.S. producers are poised to ship vast quantities of gas overseas as energy companies seek permits for proposed export projects that could set off a renewed frenzy of fracking.
Bangladesh to raise wages for garment workers
Written by FARID HOSSAIN,Associated Press
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh's government plans to raise the minimum wage for garment workers, a Cabinet minister said Sunday, after the deaths of more than 1,100 people in the collapse of a factory building focused international attention on the textile industry's dismal pay and hazardous working conditions.
Pope Francis gives church hundreds of new saints
Written by FRANCES D'EMILIO,Associated Press
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday gave the Catholic Church new saints, including hundreds of 15th-century martyrs who were beheaded for refusing to convert to Islam, as he led his first canonization ceremony Sunday in a packed St. Peter's Square.
Review chairman: Clinton didn't make Benghazi call
Written by PHILIP ELLIOTT,Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The seasoned diplomat who penned a highly critical report on security at a U.S. outpost in Benghazi, Libya, defended his scathing assessment but absolved then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. "We knew where the responsibility rested," Thomas Pickering said Sunday.
Bold turkey: woman hits cop to kick smoking habit
Written by AP
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Think you've heard of every way possible to quit smoking? Etta Mae Lopez came up with a new one: slap a cop and go to jail, where smoking isn't allowed.