Ap – Breaking News

  • Boy Scouts approve plan to accept openly gay boys
    GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) -- After lengthy and wrenching debate, local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America have voted to open their ranks to openly gay boys for the first time, but heated reactions from the left and right made clear that the BSA's controversies are far from over....
  • I-5 bridge collapse survivor: 'You hold on'
    MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) -- Dan Sligh and his wife were in their pickup truck on Interstate 5 heading to a camping trip when a bridge before them disappeared in a "big puff of dust."...
  • Obama balances threats against Americans' rights
    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Forecasting the changing nature of threats against the U.S. for years to come, President Barack Obama says "America is at a crossroads." And so, too, is his presidency's counterterrorism policy, which has long struggled to balance protecting the nation from terror attacks while upholding Americans' rights....
  • Britain braces for possible copycat attacks
    LONDON (AP) -- Britain is bracing for clashes with right-wing extremists and possible copycat terror attacks after the brutal slaying of a young soldier....
  • Extremists claim responsibility for Niger attacks
    NIAMEY, Niger (AP) -- Suicide bombers in Niger detonated two car bombs simultaneously, one inside a military camp in the city of Agadez and another in the remote town of Arlit at a French-operated uranium mine, killing 26 people and injuring 30, according to officials in Niger and France. A surviving attacker took a group of soldiers hostage, and authorities were attempting to negotiate their release....
  • IRS replaces official who revealed targeting
    WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Internal Revenue Service official who led the unit that targeted tea party groups and publicly disclosed the activity has been replaced, making her the third top IRS official moved aside since the episode was revealed two weeks ago....
  • Jury in Arias case gives up after no consensus
    PHOENIX (AP) -- As jurors in Jodi Arias' murder trial filed one by one from the courtroom after a dramatic five months of gut-wrenching testimony and gruesome photographs, three women on the panel cried and one looked to the victim's family, mouthing the word, "Sorry."...
  • Plastic ocean debris the target of new Calif. bill
    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- It's a common sight on the nation's beaches: among the sand, sea foam and gnarled kelp lay plastic bottles, bags and other garbage....
  • Foreign preacher takes rare turn on Vietnam stage
    HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- The 25,000 people at the soccer stadium and the millions more watching at home waited 90 minutes before the Australian evangelical preacher got to the message he had come to Communist-ruled Vietnam to deliver....
  • Actress Bynes arrested in NYC on marijuana charge
    NEW YORK (AP) -- Police say actress Amanda Bynes has been arrested in midtown Manhattan after she heaved a marijuana bong out of a window....