WASHINGTON ( AP) — Maine Republican Olympia Snowe says the Senate spends too much time in political battle and not enough on solving problems, and more than a few of her colleagues agree. Snowe, the Senate’s most liberal Republican, found herself in a familiar spot Thursday as the only member of her party to join […]

HONOLULU (AP) — Sgt. Brandon Morgan didn’t expect to become a global phenomenon when he kissed his partner upon returning from a six-month deployment to Afghanistan. But then last weekend a friend posted a photo of their embrace on the Gay Marines page on Facebook. Morgan, in desert camouflage, is seen wrapping his legs around […]

LONDON ( AP) — Prime Minister David Cameron stood before the world’s media today and finally admitted: Yes, he had ridden the horse. News that the Metropolitan Police had entrusted a retired police horse named Raisa to former News International chief Rebekah Brooks and her horse- trainer husband Charlie provided light relief this week amid […]

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — U.S. Coast Guard officials said they’ve recovered the bodies of two of the three crewmembers who had been missing since a helicopter crashed in Mobile Bay in Alabama. Searchers recovered the remains of Lt. Cmdr. Dale Taylor of Snow Hill, N.C., and Lt. j.g. Thomas Cameron of Portland, Ore., on Thursday, […]

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber killed 23 people, many of them believed to be militants, in an attack today on the headquarters of a rival insurgent group in northwest Pakistan, a government official said. The blast took place in the Tirah Valley region close to the border with Afghanistan, where clashes earlier in […]

BEIRUT ( AP) — The Red Cross dispatched an aid convoy to an embattled neighborhood in the Syrian city of Homs today, and the U.N. said it was alarmed by reports of execution-style killings after the Syrian army seized the area from rebel forces. The seizure of Baba Amr by the Syrian army was a […]