AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A state trooper has been reprimanded for posing for a photo with Snoop Dogg at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, because the rapper has several convictions for drug possession. Billy Spears was working security at the March event when Snoop Dogg asked to take a picture with him. The […]

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Lawmakers in Arkansas and Indiana are scrambling to revise controversial religious objection measures as Republican governors in both states try to quell a growing backlash from businesses and other critics who have called the proposals anti-gay. A day after Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson called on the Legislature to change the measure he […]

NAIROBI, Kenya Al-Shabab gunmen attacked a college in northeast Kenya early today, targeting Christians and killing at least 15 people and wounding 60 others, witnesses said. Even as security forces cornered the gunmen in a dormitory at Garissa University College where they could be holding hostages, survivors described to The Associated Press a harrowing scene, […]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A major sandstorm has whipped into the Mideast’s commercial hub of Dubai and other Gulf cities, reducing visibility, forcing flight diversions and making breathing outside more difficult. Dubai’s airport operator said today that four flights bound for Dubai International Airport, the world’s busiest hub for international air traffic, were […]

JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian stabbed an Israeli soldier today during an arrest of Palestinians who had sneaked past the West Bank separation barrier on their way into Israel, the military said. The soldier was stabbed in the West Bank alongside the barrier. He suffered light injuries and was evacuated to the hospital, the military […]

LONDON (AP) — Cynthia Lennon, the first wife of former Beatles guitarist John Lennon, died of cancer Wednesday at her home in Spain. She was 75. Her death was announced on the website and Twitter account of her son, Julian Lennon, and confirmed by his representative. Julian Lennon posted a moving video tribute to his […]