Posts in category National & World

LAS VEGAS (AP) – A woman intentionally swerved her car onto a busy sidewalk two or three times Sunday and mowed down people outside a …

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Dozens of demonstrators gathered in front of San Francisco’s criminal courthouse to protest the police shooting death of a 26-year-old black …

Photo Courtesy of South Florida Times MIAMI —  They walked the Red Carpet last Friday night at the Hollywood Diplomat Resort and Spa, just like …

By SAM HANANEL WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, famous for his blustery rhetoric from the bench and beyond, finds himself in controversy again …

By JESSE J. HOLLAND WASHINGTON —  Only seven percent of the top staffers in the U.S. Senate are people of color, far below minorities’ representation …

WASHINGTON (AP) – Michelle Obama is marking the days off the calendar for her favorite holiday tradition: traveling with family and friends to Hawaii. The …

BRUNSWICK, Maine – The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum at Bowdoin College created a Robert E. Peary doll several years ago and encouraged people to take the …

By RACHEL ZOLL AP Religion Writer NEW YORK — By now, the tableau has become tragically familiar: American Muslims standing before a bank of cameras, …

WASHINGTON — Basketball coaches, leading military officers and many of the country’s biggest businesses agree that the Supreme Court should preserve the use of race …

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer PARIS  — The cold hard numbers of science haven’t spurred the world to curb runaway global warming. So as …