NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Mayor Cory Booker said he will live on food stamps for a week starting Tuesday.
Booker told The Associated Press on Thursday that he will honor the challenge he made to a Twitter...
GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — Botswana says it will ban hunting by 2014 because of fears that the nation is losing its wildlife.
The nation’s Ministry of Environment, Wildlife and Tourism made...
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s unruly newspapers should be regulated by an independent body dominated by non-journalists with the power to levy steep fines, a judge said Thursday in a report that...
JERUSALEM (AP) — The black-and-white photos show masses of people yearning for independence, celebrating a vote recognizing a state in Palestine. It was a day that generations of pupils would be...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Two BP rig supervisors and a former BP executive pleaded not guilty Wednesday to criminal charges stemming from the deadly Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and the company’s...
The man who was initially accused of sexually assaulting an LSU fan after the BCS Championship game last January will be sentenced today.
Brian Downing, 33-year-old Alabama fan, pleaded guilty last month...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas wants ownership of Warren Jeffs’ massive ranch where prosecutors say the convicted polygamist sect leader and his followers sexually assaulted dozens of children,...
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Young voters helped pass laws legalizing marijuana in Washington and Colorado, but many still won’t be able to light up.
Most universities have codes of conduct banning...
NEW YORK (AP) — An 80-foot Norway spruce that made it through Superstorm Sandy is getting a chance to shine when it’s scheduled to be lit as the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree.
The tree,...
DOHA, Qatar (AP) — An area of Arctic sea ice bigger than the United States melted this year, according the U.N. weather agency, which said the dramatic decline illustrates that climate change is...
TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania celebrated 100 years of independence Wednesday with a military parade, festive cavalcades and an 18-ton cake.
But the celebrations were soured by spats with two of...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — The garment factory in Bangladesh where 112 people were killed in a fire had been making clothes for Wal-Mart, Disney, Sears and other major global retailers — some...
