Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON — An ideologically split Supreme Court ruled Monday that a law school can legally deny recognition to a Christian student group that won’t let gays join, with one justice saying that the First Amendment does not require a public university to validate or support the group’s “discriminatory practices.†The court turned [...]
SACRAMENTO — The Schwarzenegger administration has reached tentative labor deals with two more unions representing state workers. On Monday, it announced two-year agreements with the Union of American Physicians and Dentists and the International Union of Operating Engineers. The unions, which must ratify the deals, represent about 14,000 state employees out of a total work [...]
Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON — My shoe boxes of travel photographs bring back memories of the pictures that got away. Mom in Paris in springtime, except the Eiffel Tower is sticking out of her head like a rocket. My friend Russell on the steps of Michelangelo’s Laurentian Library in Florence, not that you can tell [...]
Associated Press Writer PARIS — U.S. designer Thom Browne’s stellar Paris debut — a cinematic performance piece featuring models in identical space suits and visored helmets — closed the City of Light’s spring-summer 2011 menswear show with an intergalactic bang on Sunday. Browne’s “Space Odyssey†display seemed destined to become a thing of legend — [...]
Associated Press Writer NEW YORK — It helps in any autobiography to spice up your story, which is exactly what A. R. Gurney does in his new play, “The Grand Manner.†This warm homage to a bygone theater era is now premiering in a beautifully acted production at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi Newhouse Theatre. Expanding on [...]
AP Music Writer NEW YORK — Steven Tyler can laugh about it now. The fall off the stage that caused the cancellation of Aerosmith’s 2009 summer tour. His stint in rehab for prescription drug abuse. The fights with his bandmates, and the talk of replacing him as lead singer for Aerosmith. That’s because now that [...]
CHICAGO (AP) — A secretly made FBI tape shows that former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich weighed the possibility of naming Oprah Winfrey to the U.S. Senate seat being left by President Barack Obama. Blagojevich was heard on the tape played Monday at his corruption trial saying Winfrey’s name carried so much prestige that no one [...]
Associated Press Writer CLYDE TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Powerful winds overturned trailers and scattered furniture, bikes and debris across an eastern Michigan campground Sunday, killing one person and injuring four others, authorities said. A “massive†storm moved through the Fort Trodd Family Campground in St. Clair County’s Clyde Township shortly after 7 p.m., Sheriff Tim Donnellon [...]
The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Sunday it intends to nearly double the available amount of wireless communications spectrum over the next 10 years in an effort to keep up with the ever-growing demand for high-speed video and data transmission to cell phones, laptops and other mobile devices. The White House said [...]
Associated Press Writer MIR ALI, Pakistan — Suspected U.S. missiles struck a militant compound in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least three people in an area teeming with Taliban and al-Qaida fighters who often launch attacks against NATO troops in Afghanistan. It was the second strike in as many days in North Waziristan, a mountainous area [...]
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said today it must bolster its nuclear capability to cope with “hostile†U.S. policy amid high tension over the deadly sinking of a South Korean warship blamed on Pyongyang. An international investigation concluded last month that North Korea torpedoed the warship Cheonan near the tense Korean sea border. North [...]
AP Medical Writer CHANDIPUR, Bangladesh — Hanufa Bibi stoops in a worn sari and mismatched flip-flops to work the hand pump on her backyard well. Spurts of clear water wash grains of rice from her hands, but she can never get them clean. Thick black warts tattoo her palms and fingers, the result of drinking [...]
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