Alaska officials say residents to receive $878 in yearly payout of state’s oil wealth
IRVING, Texas (AP) — Hostess, the maker of Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Wonder Bread, is going out of business.

IRVING, Texas (AP) — Hostess, the maker of Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Wonder Bread, is going out of business.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh has a simple goal for driving the pace car at the Indianapolis 500: Don't screw it up. Harbaugh will lead the field to the green flag to start Sunday's race, so he's been getting coaching from three-time winner Johnny Rutherford. It will be Rutherford who gets behind the wheel for all of the in-race cautions. Harbaugh has a long history [...]
Read more →INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Carlos Munoz remembers spilling into the streets of his native Bogota the minute that Juan Pablo Montoya crossed the finish line to win the Indianapolis 500. He was just a boy back in 2000, but Munoz looked around at everyone celebrating the triumph and understood what it meant: That someone from Colombia could break through on one of motor racing's grandest stages, swill [...]
Read more →ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Dozens of African leaders met in the Ethiopian capital Saturday to mark 50 years since the founding of the African Union, a continentwide organization that helped liberate Africa from colonial masters and which now is trying to stay relevant on a continent regularly troubled by conflict. Opening the summit that was attended by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and [...]
Read more →CANNES, France (AP) — After two weeks, 20 films and parade after parade down the red carpet, the Cannes Film Festival has not produced a clear-cut frontrunner for the Palme d'Or. The prestigious award for the best film in competition will be handed out Sunday night, decided by a jury headed by Steven Spielberg. While this year's festival has boasted a cinematic feast, no single film is believed [...]
Read more →TOKYO (AP) — An atomic research lab in northern Japan has reported a radiation leak that may have affected about 50 people, though none were hospitalized and no impact was expected outside the facility, the lab's operator said Saturday. The Japan Atomic Energy Agency said the accident occurred Thursday in its Hadron Experimental Facility at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex in the [...]
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