NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter, a tool of choice for dissidents and activists around the world, found itself the target of global outrage Friday after unveiling plans to allow country-specific censorship of tweets that might break local laws.
It was a stunning role reversal for a youthful company...
ATLANTA (AP) — For the first time in almost half a century, homicide has fallen off the list of the nation's top 15 causes of death, bumped by a lung illness that often develops in elderly people who have choked on their food.
The 2010 list, released by the government Wednesday, reflects at...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta phoned Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai Thursday and promised full investigation of a video that purports to depict four U.S. Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters – a video both men condemned as deplorable.
In a separate public...
WASHINGTON — U.S. first lady Michelle Obama shot down any notion of infighting between her and the president's top aides in a television interview on Wednesday, downplaying her role and influence in the White House.
Michelle Obama defended her role as one of dozens of advisers to President...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Long before his dazzling footwork and punching prowess made him a three-time world heavyweight boxing champion known as Muhammad Ali, a young Cassius Clay honed his skills by sparring with neighborhood friends and running alongside the bus on the way to school.
The man who...
Do you wonder where these groups are, when we have the first Afro-American President, the first Afro-American family in the White House, the first Hispanic Supreme Court Judge and an Afro-American Attorney General?
White supremacy is the belief, and promotion of the belief, that white people...
