Russia may run greater risks in towns outside the tightly controlled Olympic zone.
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Threats to a string of European Olympic offices are reviving a question that has haunted preparations for the Winter Games next month: Is it safe to go to Sochi? European Olympic authorities, whose countries have faced terrorist threats and attacks in the past, largely shrugged off the new menacing messages as a hoax, a
VA’s new attorney general says the state’s ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional and he will no longer defend it in federal lawsuits.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Following a seismic political shift in Virginia's top elected offices, the new attorney general has concluded that the state's ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional and he will no longer defend it in federal lawsuits, his office said Thursday. Virginia, widely considered a battleground state in the nationwide fight to
John Kerry warned Texas officials that executing Tamayo would strain relations with the southern neighbor.
MEXICO CITY — Edgar Tamayo's execution in Texas on Wednesday is roiling US-Mexico relations and spurring public debate about the death penalty in both countries. A court sentenced Tamayo to death for the killing of a police officer 20 years ago. Recently, in efforts to stop the execution, Mexican officials and anti-death penalty advocates
Wainaina’s essay, painful to read, this week announced what he wishes he had told his mother before she died 14 years ago: “I am a homosexual, mum.”
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — African literary light Binyavanga Wainaina says he's known he was gay since he was 5 though he did not have a homosexual encounter until he was 39. To celebrate his 43rd birthday, the prize-winning Kenyan has published an online essay telling the world that he is gay. His story contributes to an increasingly fierce debate
U.N. officials warn that the country may be on the brink of genocide.
BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Hundreds of Christians went on a rampage in Central African Republic's capital, looting and setting fire to Muslim-owned homes and businesses and threatening to go on a killing spree as the country prepared to inaugurate a new interim president Thursday. The unrest highlights the massive challenges
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It was 1949. My mother -- known in the gossip columns of that era as “New York’s girl caricaturist” -- was freelancing theatrical sketches to a number of New York’s newspapers and magazines, including the Brooklyn Eagle. That paper, then more than a century old, had just a few years of life left in it. From 1846 to 1848, its editor had been the
