Egyptian riot police clashed with hundreds of protesters blocks away from the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, leading to the death of one protester. Meanwhile in Alexandria protesters near the US consulate clashed with police there. (Sept. 14)
VATICAN CITY (AP) — El Salvador's president meets with Pope Francis on Thursday amid mounting indications that the stars have finally aligned to beatify assassinated Archbishop Oscar Romero. The Central American country now has a government made up of former guerilla fighters who battled the same military hierarchy that Romero denounced. The Vatican now has a Latin American pope who channels [...]
Read more →WASHINGTON (AP) — The baseball star, the Hollywood 10, Oliver North. And Lois Lerner of the IRS. The official enmeshed in a probe of the tax agency is the latest on a roll call of witnesses called before Congress who refused to answer lawmakers' questions. A few well-known names who invoked Fifth Amendment protections against self-incrimination: ___ White House gate crashers Michaele and Tareq [...]
Read more →CANNES, France (AP) — To convince Kristin Scott Thomas to play the bloodthirsty matriarch of "Only God Forgives," director Nicolas Winding Refn appealed to Scott Thomas — how else? — with the flattery of his own mother. "That's how he got me to do the film," Scott Thomas said in a beachside interview Wednesday. "He said, 'You're my mother's favorite actress.' So I had to. It was a good [...]
Read more →BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentines in the hometown of former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla are upset at the prospect that he may be buried there. Videla died Friday at age 87 while serving a life term for crimes against humanity for his leadership of a bloody junta from 1976 to 1983. Authorities said Wednesday that his family has yet to arrange his burial in the municipal cemetery in [...]
Read more →MOORE, Okla. (AP) — Dan Garland could feel the latch on the shelter door begin to turn in his hand. It was as if the storm outside were a living, breathing thing — and it was trying desperately to get in. Huddled beside him in the darkened 5-foot-by-6-foot hole were not just his wife and 91-year-old mother, along with five neighbors and two friends from a mile away — 10 people and two dogs, [...]
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