AP - A bill allowing Gov. Deval Patrick to name an interim appointment to the Senate seat left vacant by the death of Edward Kennedy is headed to the Massachusetts Senate, where its fate is uncertain.
AP - TEHRAN, Iran ? A group of Iranian hard-liners have attacked a reformist former president while he was marching with opposition supporters at an anti-government rally in Tehran.
AP - Leaders of the world’s 20 top economies vowed to resist protectionism last November and again in April as they charted a joint strategy for confronting the worst global downturn in generations. As they meet again, they’ll get this progress report: Most of their economies are on the mend ? and trade tensions and [...]
AP - With a sweeping health care overhaul proposal finally on the table, senators who’ve been waiting months to see the bill are lined up to offer a bevy of contentious changes. One senator said the bill “needs more than just a few tweaks.”
AP - The Obama administration is not abandoning missile defense in Europe, but it is junking the previous administration’s view of the missile threat posed by Iran and what that means for Europe.
AP - Abandoned mercury mines throughout central California’s rugged coastal mountains are polluting the state’s major waterways, rendering fish unsafe to eat and risking the health of at least 100,000 impoverished people.
AP - Google Inc. is counting on the crown jewel of its online advertising empire to burnish a diamond in the rough.
AP - A veteran New York City news anchor flubs a line and an obscene catch phrase goes viral on the Internet.
AP - Miami quarterback Jacory Harris raised some eyebrows this week when he suggested the Hurricanes’ offense couldn’t be stopped. Georgia Tech did nothing to disprove that theory.
AP - Police are considering whether a Yale University graduate student’s killing may have stemmed from a dispute with an animal research technician described as an overbearing “control freak” who clashed with scientists and their proteges in the lab where they both worked.