Syria peace talks in doubt after 6th day in Geneva
U.N.-Arab League mediator Lakhdar Brahimi ended direct talks Saturday without finding a way of breaking the impasse.
UAW falls 87 votes short of major victory in South
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Just 87 votes at the Volkswagen plant in Tennessee separated the United Auto Workers union from what would have been its first successful organization of workers at a foreign automaker in the South.
British storms claim lives, cause travel chaos
Transport networks suffered major disruption and more than 140,000 homes were without power across storm-battered Britain on Saturday after the country's latest severe weather claimed two lives. With southern England the worst affected by Britain's wettest start to a year in two and a half centuries, London's Heathrow airport said some plane services had been cancelled. Work was being carried out to restore power to more than 140,000 properties, said the Energy Networks Association, which added that electricity had been re-connected to 310,000 properties. More than 30 people were rescued from a flooded seafront restaurant in Milford on Sea, southern England, after wind-blown shingle shattered windows.
Obama: Water distribution not a zero-sum game
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — President Barack Obama says the U.S. has to stop thinking of water as a "zero-sum" game and must do a better job of figuring out how to make sure everyone's water needs are satisfied.
Olympics: Earth's most political apolitical event
SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Each time an Olympics approaches, the ideal is articulated once more: The true spirit of the games, those who oversee them say, brings humanity together to promote amity and athletic excellence. It is most certainly not a place for the affairs of nations and vested interests to play out on a global stage.
Fenninger wins Olympic super-G; Hoefl-Riesch 2nd
KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia (AP) — The super-G was running so extreme that seven of the opening eight racers slid, tumbled, careened and glided off the course, unable to finish.
'Juno' actress Ellen Page comes out as gay
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ellen Page, who won the hearts of moviegoers as the pregnant teenager in the 2007 film "Juno," has come out as gay.
Competition for presidency heats up staid Algeria
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — In Algeria, which has been run by a succession of military men for decades, presidential elections often are foregone conclusion. But not this year.
Utah man found guilty of teen babysitter's murder
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — It took a Utah jury just two hours to find a man guilty of killing a teenage baby sitter and dumping her body in the woods after prosecutors say he gave her a lethal dose of drugs during a night of sex that also included the man's wife.
Princes William, Harry sandbag against UK floods
LONDON (AP) — Prince William and Prince Harry helped flood-hit British villagers protect their homes Friday, unloading sandbags alongside soldiers in a River Thames village.
Inquiry says Incognito, 2 others harassed Martin
An investigation into the racially charged Miami Dolphins bullying scandal detailed widespread harassment in the team's locker room that extended beyond the two players at the center of the probe.
Havana mob hotel Capri reopens after renovation
HAVANA (AP) — In its heyday, Havana's Capri hotel and casino was the playground of men known as The Blade and The Fat Butcher.
Officials: Uganda's leader to sign anti-gay bill
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni plans to sign a bill into law that prescribes life imprisonment for some homosexual acts, officials said Friday, alarming rights activists who have condemned the bill as draconian in a country where homosexuality already has been criminalized.
Guess who dropped by USA House? Vladimir Putin
SOCHI, Russia (AP) — In a powerful symbol of international sports detente, Russian President Vladimir Putin dropped in on U.S. Olympic headquarters Friday to chat about the Winter Games and the upcoming Russia-U.S. hockey showdown.
Obama: US must rethink water as climate changes
LOS BANOS, Calif. (AP) — Warning that weather-related disasters will only get worse, President Barack Obama said Friday the U.S. must rethink the way it uses water as he announced new federal aid to help drought-stricken California.
Car bomb outside mosque in Syria kills dozens
BEIRUT (AP) — A car bomb blew up outside a mosque in a rebel-held village in southern Syria as worshippers were leaving after Friday prayers, killing dozens of people and filling clinics and hospitals with the wounded, anti-government activists said.
Shift seen in legal battle for gay rights
Uptick in federal judges' willingness to embrace same-sex marriage could hasten Supreme Court.
Obama: Calif. drought is everyone's concern
President warns of difficult choices ahead as to how America uses and conserves water.
U.S., China agree to work on climate change
China and the United States, the world's top emitters of greenhouse gases, pledged on Saturday to work together to attenuate the effects of global climate change. "China and the United States will work together ... to collaborate through enhanced policy dialogue, including the sharing of information regarding their respective post-2020 plans to limit greenhouse gas emissions," according to a U.S.-China joint statement issued at the end of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's whirlwind Beijing visit. International talks to try to agree on a successor to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, the first and only international agreement to tackle climate change, are due to be held in Paris next year. The United States never ratified the Kyoto deal.
7 rejected GOP Valentine’s Day jokes (4 REAL)
Ahhh, February 14, when a young party official’s thoughts turn to the sweetness and light of Valentine’s Day-themed political attacks.
