Senate committee starting votes on curbing guns
Written by ALAN FRAM,Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's prospects for winning near-universal background checks for gun purchases seemed shaky as the Senate Judiciary Committee prepared for Congress' first votes on curbing firearms since December's horrific shootings at a Connecticut elementary school.
Man held without bail in NY couple's deadly crash
Written by COLLEEN LONG,Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — A man suspected of fleeing the scene of a grisly New York crash that killed a pregnant woman and her husband was arrested at a Pennsylvania convenience store on Wednesday after a friend arranged his surrender, and he was ordered held without bail.
Furious over sanctions, NKorea vows to nuke US
Written by EDITH M. LEDERER,Associated Press HYUNG-JIN KIM,Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea vowed on Thursday to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the United States, amplifying its threatening rhetoric hours ahead of a vote by U.N. diplomats on whether to level new sanctions against Pyongyang for its recent nuclear test.
Calif. exotic animal park lion kills Wash. intern
Written by GOSIA WOZNIACKA,Associated Press TRACIE CONE,Associated Press
DUNLAP, Calif. (AP) — Authorities are trying to determine what provoked a lion at an exotic animal park in Central California to attack and maul to death a 24-year-old intern from Washington state.
Winter snowstorm pummels Midwest, heads toward DC
Written by DAVID DISHNEAU,Associated Press
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — After pummeling the nation's midsection with heavy snow, a late-winter storm made its way Wednesday to the nation's capital, where residents braced for the possibility of power outages.
Chavez widely mourned, but some hope change on way
Written by CHRISTINE ARMARIO,Associated Press PETER ORSI,Associated Press
HAVANA, Cuba (AP) — Some marked Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's death with tears; others with cheers. There was deep mourning in Latin America, condolences from Europe and Asia and from Iran's president, predictions of great works in the afterlife.
Dow hits record, erasing Great Recession losses
Written by BERNARD CONDON,AP Business Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market is back.
Too much money spent in Iraq for too few results
Written by LARA JAKES,AP National Security Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ten years and $60 billion in American taxpayer funds later, Iraq is still so unstable and broken that even its leaders question whether U.S. efforts to rebuild the war-torn nation were worth the cost.