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Body found near Patriots home was homicide victim
State police returned to the home of New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez on Wednesday, two days after a body was found about a mile ...
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10 Things to Know for Thursday
KERRY TRIES TO GET AFGHAN TALKS BACK ON TRACK He calls Karzai twice in 24 hours, trying to sooth the Afghan leader's anger over the Taliban's high-profile opening of an office in Qatar. 4. STUDENTS, TAKE NOTE A compromise taking shape in the Senate would prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling on July 1. 5. HOW OBAMA PLANS TO WIELD HIS EXECUTIVE POWERS Fulfilling a ...
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Few options for Brazil leader in face of protests
President Dilma Rousseff has tried to placate the largely middle-class crowds by supporting their right to protest, and the Sao Paulo municipal government has rescinded the 10-cent hike in bus and subway fares that sparked the demonstrations in the first place. But as the protests grow even bigger, with two major marches called for Thursday, the Brazilian government seems at a loss over how to ...
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Homes evacuated as new Colo. wildfire erupts
June 18, 2013, in Colorado Springs, Colo. Residents were allowed back into the area for a short period of time to view the properties that sustained the most damage from the fire. The Black Forest Fire, the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history, has destroyed 502 homes and charred more than 22 square miles. It was 85 percent contained Tuesday. (AP Photo/The Colorado Springs Gazette, ...
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Compromise among senators eyed on border security
legal status to immigrants living in the United States unlawfully while the additional security was being put into place. No green cards -- signifying permanent residence status -- could be issued to them until the plan was fully implemented. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity, saying they were not authorized to disclose terms of a plan that was not yet finalized. If agreed to, the ...
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FBI says it uses surveillance drones on U.S. soil
FBI Director Robert Mueller gestures at the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee at an oversight hearing about the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 19, ...
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Obama making plans to tackle global warming
WASHINGTON -; President Barack Obama is planning a major push using executive powers to tackle the pollution blamed for global warming in an effort to make good on promises he made at the start of his second ...
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Brazil officials reverse subway bus fare hike
A demonstrator holds up a Brazilian flag in front of a group of protestors gathered in the main plaza of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Some of the biggest demonstrations since the end of Brazil's 1964-85 dictatorship have broke out across this continent-sized country, uniting multitudes frustrated by poor transportation, health services, education and security despite a heavy ...
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FBI ends Michigan search for Hoffas remains
View Photo Associated Press/Carlos Osorio - Investigators stand at the scene in Oakland Township, Mich., Wednesday, June 19, 2013 where officials attempt to restore the field to its natural condition after the FBI ...
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Two arrested after €150k drugs seizure in Cork
Two men have been arrested following a drugs seizure in Co Cork.Garda stopped and searched a car close to an area known as Halfway in Ballinhassig outside of Cork city earlier today and recovered 25kg of cannabis resin with an estimated street value of EUR150,000.The two occupants of the car, a local man in his early 40's and a man in his 30's from Dublin, were arrested at the scene. ...
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Housing Authority with €2 million deficit carcinogenetic particles found at SVPR dental clinic
Pensions, residential homes, social housing and disability issues dominate consultation meeting with Family Minister Marie Louise Coleiro Preca and parliamentary secretary for the elderly Franco ...
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Deen says she used slur but doesnt tolerate hate
SAVANNAH, Ga. - Celebrity cook Paula Deen says she has used racial slurs in the past but insists she and her brother, who are accused of racial and sexual discrimination in a lawsuit by a former manager of their restaurant, don't tolerate hateful behavior.In a court deposition filed Monday in federal court, an attorney for former restaurant manager Lisa Jackson presses the 66-year-old Deen ...
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Dollar gains against the euro and the yen in Feds wake
The U.S. dollar reversed earlier losses and rose against the euro and yen on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee said it sees the downside risks to the outlook for the economy and the labor market as having diminished since the fall. . NEW YORK, June 19 The FOMC also ...
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Obamas job approval rating slips
President Barack Obama smiles during a dinner hosted by German Chancellor Angela Merkel (not pictured) at the Chralottenburg … President Barack Obama's job approval rating slipped slightly to 49 percent in June, not much changed despite controversies over National Security Agency surveillance and the IRS targeting of conservative groups, according to a new poll from the non-partisan ...
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Senators float new student loan proposal
interest rates to the financial markets. If approved, it would prevent rates for new borrowing from doubling in coming days. Students from lower-income families, who pay substantially lower interest rates than those more affluent, would see interest rates rise slightly to 3.8 percent on ...
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Obama urges bold nuclear cuts in Berlin speech
View Photo Associated Press/Michael Kappeler,Pool - US President Barack Obama, left, waves to invited guests next to German Chancellor Angela Merkel . right, in front of Brandenburg Gate at Pariser Platz in Berlin, ...
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Militants storm UN compound in Somalia 20 killed
View Photo Associated Press/Farah Abdi Warsameh - African Union peacekeepers and unidentified foreigners stand outside the main U.N. compound, following an attack on it in Mogadishu, Somalia Wednesday, June 19, ...
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US tries saving Taliban talks after Karzai objects
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Hopes dimmed for talks aimed at ending the Afghan war when an angry President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday suspended security negotiations with the U.S. and scuttled a peace delegation to the Taliban, sending American officials scrambling to preserve the possibility of dialogue with the ...
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Wikileaks founder offers aid to NSA leaker
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange speaks to the media inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in … Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said Wednesday that his anti-secrecy group has been in touch with National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden's legal team in a bid to help ...
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Obama revisits 08 promises in Berlin speech
German Chancellor Angela Merkel watches as U.S. President Barack Obama waves after giving a speech in front of … BERLIN -- In 2008, some 200,000 people packed the streets near this city's Victory Column and listened raptly to candidate Barack Obama promise to lead a different America on the chaotic global stage - one that would embrace action to fight climate change, shutter the ...
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Fed suggests its closer to slowing bond purchases
the pace of its bond-buying program to keep long-term interest rates at record lows. But it offered a more optimistic outlook for the U.S. economy and job market. (AP Photo/Susan ...
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Bill could reduce illegal immigration 25 percent
2013. The committee in the Republican-led House is preparing to cast its first votes on immigration this year, on a tough enforcement-focused measure that Democrats and immigrant groups are protesting loudly. (AP Photo/Carolyn ...
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As fires rage feds cut funding on prevention
federal government is spending less and less on its main program for preventing blazes in the first place. A combination of government austerity and the ballooning cost of battling the ruinous fires has taken a bite out of federal efforts to remove the dead trees and flammable underbrush that clog Western forests. The ...
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IRS draws new criticism over $70M employee bonuses
in employee bonuses despite an Obama administration directive to cancel discretionary bonuses because of automatic spending cuts enacted this year, according to a GOP senator. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, ...
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Fed says it will maintain pace of bond purchases
Investors have been nervously speculating that the Fed will soon scale back its economic stimulus and send interest rates up and stock prices down. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce ...
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