2013
Procession brings home fallen Arizona firefighters
PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) — Nineteen firefighters killed in a wildfire a week ago went home for the last time on Sunday, their bodies traveling in individual white hearses in a somber caravan for 125 miles through Arizona cities and towns. The nearly five-hour-long procession began near the state Capitol in Phoenix, went through the town […]
Teresa Heinz Kerry hospitalized in Boston
BOSTON (AP) — Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and heir to a ketchup company fortune, was hospitalized in critical condition Sunday while on Massachusetts’ Nantucket Island. Heinz Kerry was flown to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston on Sunday night after doctors at Nantucket Cottage Hospital stabilized her, said […]
Suicide bomber kills 8
PARACHINAR, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber on a motorcycle attacked a progovernment tribal elder’s vehicle in northwest Pakistan today, killing at least eight people, police said. The elder, Malik Habibullah Khan, was not in the vehicle at the time of the attack, but his brother and a guard were killed, said police officer Aleem […]
Abortion in Texas
It was high drama in the Texas Capitol as the state Senate took up a measure to prohibit abortions after 20 weeks. Sen. Wendy Davis of Fort Worth, a virtual unknown to most of the state, rose to her feet shortly after 11 a.m. to speak against the bill. And speak she did for more […]
Was it a coup?
The debate on Egypt has been between those who emphasize process and those who emphasize substance. Those who emphasize process have said that the government of President Mohammed Morsi was freely elected and that its democratic support has been confirmed over and over. The most important thing, they say, is to protect the fragile democratic […]