Dog sniffs out grammar
2013-05-22 11:24:34 UTC
Chaser isn’t just a 9-year-old border collie with her breed’s boundless energy, intense focus and love of herding virtually anything. She’s a grammar hound.
In experiments directed by her owner, psychologist John Pilley of Wofford College in Sp...
Gosling misses Cannes premiere, sends his regrets
2013-05-22 11:13:24 UTC
CANNES, France (AP) — The Cannes Film Festival is missing one of its biggest stars of this year's festival: Ryan Gosling.
The actor was unable to attend the premiere Wednesday of Nicolas Winding Refn's "Only God Forgives." Gosling stars in th...
Irishman charged with 1982 IRA Hyde Park bombing
2013-05-22 11:04:06 UTC
LONDON (AP) — A 61-year-old Irishman has been charged with the Irish Republican Army bombing of the queen's ceremonial cavalry in Hyde Park in 1982 that killed four soldiers and seven horses.
State prosecutors say John Downey was arrested Sunda...
North Korea sends leader's special envoy to China
2013-05-22 10:50:48 UTC
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un dispatched a high-profile official and close confidant to China on Wednesday as Beijing faces pressure to rein in its belligerent neighbor.
Choe Ryong Hae, a top Workers' Party offic...
Iran closer to make nuclear weapons than thought
2013-05-22 10:26:47 UTC
VIENNA (AP) — Diplomats say Iran is moving ahead to update a program the West fears could be used to make nuclear weapons, in a blow to years of high-level diplomacy aimed at stopping it from doing so.
Three diplomats say Tehran now has install...
Harry Potter book with author notes sold for $228K
2013-05-22 05:10:19 UTC
LONDON (AP) — For fans of the boy wizard, this could be the most coveted copy of all the "Harry Potter" books in the world.
A first edition copy of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" that contains author J.K. Rowling's notes and origi...
Peace Corps to accept same-sex couples
2013-05-22 05:08:03 UTC
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Peace Corps says it will begin accepting applications from same-sex domestic partners who want to serve together as volunteers overseas.
Peace Corps Deputy Director Carrie Hessler-Radelet says the change will diver...
Senate debating federal dollars for crop insurance
2013-05-22 05:07:01 UTC
WASHINGTON (AP) — The farm bill the Senate is considering this week would cut some farm subsidies but also expand government-subsidized crop insurance, a safety net used by many farmers in case of bad weather or lost revenue.
The progra...
Lawmakers hand Myanmar leader prisoner list
2013-05-22 05:04:28 UTC
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers are asking Myanmar President Thein Sein (tane sane) to free nearly 250 political prisoners.
Thein Sein met Tuesday with members of the Senate and House on Capitol Hill, a day after he became the first Myanmar l...
Gay Fla. teen charged for underage girlfriend
2013-05-22 05:02:23 UTC
MIAMI (AP) — An 18-year-old Florida cheerleader is facing felony charges that she had sexual contact with her underage, 14-year-old girlfriend, leading gay rights advocates to say the teen is being unfairly targeted for a common high school ro...
US can keep bin Laden photos under wraps
2013-05-22 05:01:20 UTC
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court Tuesday backed the U.S. government's decision not to release photos and video taken of Osama bin Laden during and after a raid in which the terrorist leader was killed by U.S. commandos.
The three...
Former IRS chief: Can't say how targeting happened
2013-05-22 05:00:11 UTC
WASHINGTON (AP) — The man who led the Internal Revenue Service when it was giving extra scrutiny to tea party and other conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status told Congress on Tuesday that he knew little about what was happening whi...
Early vote points to close race as LA picks mayor
2013-05-22 04:58:46 UTC
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An early count of mail-in ballots Tuesday pointed to a close race for Los Angeles mayor.
The tally pegged city Councilman Eric Garcetti at 49 percent and city Controller Wendy Greuel at 51 percent, with about 2,400 vote...
Senate panel approves immigration bill
2013-05-22 04:57:30 UTC
WASHINGTON (AP) — Far-reaching legislation that grants a chance at citizenship to millions of immigrants living illegally in the United States cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on a solid bipartisan vote Tuesday night after supporters s...
FBI ID's Benghazi suspects _ but no arrests yet
2013-05-22 04:56:22 UTC
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has identified five men who might be responsible for the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year, and has enough evidence to justify seizing them by military force as suspected terrorists, of...
IRS official to take the 5th at House hearing
2013-05-22 04:55:14 UTC
WASHINGTON (AP) — Summoned by Congress, a key figure in the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups plans to invoke her constitutional right against self-incrimination and decline to testify at a congressional hearing on ...
Biden: Jewish leaders drove gay marriage changes
2013-05-22 04:53:50 UTC
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden is praising Jewish leaders for helping change American attitudes about gay marriage and other issues.
Biden says culture and arts change people's attitudes. He cites social media and the old NBC TV...
Policy, discretion guide media sources probes
2013-05-22 04:52:37 UTC
WASHINGTON (AP) — It was a rare moment in relations between the media and the government: In 2008, FBI Director Robert Mueller called the top editors at The New York Times and The Washington Post to apologize because the bureau had impro...
Senate votes to make small cut to food stamps
2013-05-22 04:50:28 UTC
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate voted Tuesday to keep a $400 million annual cut — or roughly a half of 1 percent — to the food stamp program as part of a major five-year farm bill.
Food stamps now cost almost $80 billion annually and are use...
Pentagon wants $450M for Guantanamo prison
2013-05-22 04:49:30 UTC
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is asking Congress for more than $450 million for maintaining and upgrading the Guantanamo Bay prison that President Barack Obama wants to close.
New details on the administration's budget request emerged on...
White House: Reporters shouldn't be prosecuted
2013-05-22 04:47:00 UTC
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama believes journalists shouldn't be prosecuted for doing their jobs, the White House said Tuesday, showing solidarity with First Amendment advocates alarmed by a pair of high-profile federal probes into...
Apple case seen as possible spur to tax action
2013-05-22 04:45:50 UTC
WASHINGTON (AP) — Now that tech darling Apple Inc. has been dragged front and center into the debate over the U.S. tax code, lawmakers are hoping that the spotlight on such a high-profile company could be the catalyst for Congress to take ac...
Bernanke testimony to be studied for policy clues
2013-05-22 04:44:03 UTC
WASHINGTON (AP) — When Ben Bernanke testifies about the U.S. economy Wednesday, the Federal Reserve chairman's words will be examined for any clues that the Fed might soon taper — or increase — its support for the economy.
The Fed is pu...
Asia stocks rise as Fed official backs easy policy
2013-05-22 04:43:12 UTC
BANGKOK (AP) — Asian stock markets were mostly higher Wednesday after investor confidence was boosted by a Federal Reserve official's comments that the U.S. central bank should stick with its super-easy monetary policy.
Regional Fed chief J...
JPMorgan's Dimon survives shareholder referendum
2013-05-22 04:42:10 UTC
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Jamie Dimon, the CEO and chairman of JPMorgan Chase, easily survived a vote Tuesday that would have called on him to give up his role as chairman of the nation's largest bank. But shareholders sent a message that the ban...
