Posts in category National & World

TALLAHASSEE (AP) — The Republican-controlled Florida House abruptly ended a special legislative session Tuesday, July 20 just 43 minutes after it began without voting on …

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Thursday, July 22 apologized to former federal official Shirley Sherrod over her ouster in the midst of a …

MIAMI (AP) — The teenager dubbed the “Barefoot Bandit” by authorities will cool his heels in a Miami jail while he sorts out which attorney …

HAVANA (AP) — Elian Gonzalez says he’s not angry at his Miami relatives who fought to keep him in the United States during a nasty …

PHOENIX (AP) — The federal government took a momentous step into the immigration debate Tuesday, July 6 when it filed a lawsuit seeking to throw …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dead nearly two decades, the late Justice Thurgood Marshall looms improbably over Elena Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court, a resurrection in …

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, a fiery orator versed in the classics and a hard-charging power broker who steered billions of …

A year after Michael Jackson’s death caused a worldwide outpouring of shock, tears and tributes, the anniversary of his passing was marked Friday on a …

ATLANTA (AP) — When an Associated Press reporter went scuba diving in the oil-streaked Gulf of Mexico this month, people commenting on websites worried about …

LONDON (AP) — BP chief executive Tony Hayward has pulled out of a scheduled appearance at a London oil conference on the eve of the …