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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations logo over insects for sale at a market. (AP Photo)

UN says: why not eat more insects?

ROME (AP) — The U.N. has new weapons to fight hunger, boost nutrition and reduce pollution, and they might be crawling or flying near you right now: edible insects. The Food and Agriculture Organization on […]

2013/05/13

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Spacewalking repair halts station leak – for now

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – Astronauts making a rare, hastily planned spacewalk replaced a pump outside the International Space Station on Saturday in hopes of plugging a serious ammonia leak. The prospects of success grew […]

2013/05/11

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton testifying at Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the attack on the consulate in Benghazi, Libya (AP Photo)

GOP ready to push Benghazi case into 2014, beyond

WASHINGTON (AP) – Steady drips of information about a horrific night in Libya are fueling Republican arguments and ads designed to fire up the conservative base and undercut the Democrats’ early favorite for president in […]

2013/05/11

Arctic sea ice extent for September 16, 2012 (in white) and 1979 to 2000 average extent (yellow line), NASA graphic. (AP Photo)

Icy Arctic rising as economic, security hot spot

WASHINGTON (AP) – The icy Arctic is emerging as a global economic hot spot. It’s one that is becoming a security concern for the U.S. as world powers jockey to tap its vast energy resources […]

2013/05/11

Prince Harry of Great Britain visits Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery. (AP Photo)

Prince Harry salutes war dead at Arlington

WASHINGTON (AP) – Britain’s Prince Harry saluted America’s war dead in somber remembrance at Arlington National Cemetery on Friday, pausing, too, to place flowers on the tombstone of President John F. Kennedy and visit the […]

2013/05/10

Survivor Reshma Begum lies on stretcher after being pulled from rubble of a collapsed building, Savar, Bangladesh. (AP Photo)

Bangladesh collapse survivor rescued after 17 days

SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) – A seamstress buried for 17 days in the wreckage of a collapsed garment factory building in Bangladesh was rescued Friday, a miraculous moment set against the unimaginable horror of the more […]

2013/05/10

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton testifying at Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the attack on the consulate in Benghazi, Libya (AP Photo)

State Department pushed to change talking points

WASHINGTON (AP) – State Department officials recommended significant changes in the widely debunked talking points that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice used five days after the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, […]

2013/05/10

Israel's flag

Israel to Russia: Don’t give Syria S-300 missiles

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has asked Russia to cancel an imminent sale of an advanced air defense system to Syria that could complicate further military intervention, Israeli security officials confirmed Thursday. The officials said Israel […]

2013/05/09

Bret Lewis

Do me a solid

OK. It’s obviously a very serious story that Korean-American Kenneth Bay has been sentenced to 15 years hard labor in North Korea. Yet somehow former NBA whack job Dennis Rodman has inserted himself into it. […]

2013/05/08

Syrian state media say Internet service restored

BEIRUT (AP) — Internet service was restored across Syria on Wednesday, after a countrywide outage cut off the country from the rest of the world for nearly 20 hours, state media said. The state news […]

2013/05/08

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