Tag: Associated Press

Children share time with canine mascot Johnny Cash at the TutorVille HUB in Houston. (AP/Josh Welch)

Advocates believe dogs will make schools safer

Sue Manning · November 6, 2013 5:00 am

This undated photo provided by Google shows a Google data center in Hamina, Finland. The Washington Post is reporting Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, that the National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world. The Post cites documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and interviews with officials. (AP Photo/Google)

National Security

Report: National Security Agency broke into Yahoo, Google data centers

Associated Press · November 6, 2013 5:00 am

In this Oct. 22 file photo, 16-year veteran skycap Fred Harris prepares multiple baggage tags for a traveler at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in SeaTac, Wash. An early vote count showed a measure to create a $15 minimum wage in the Washington city of SeaTac is winning with 54 percent of the vote. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Initiative for $15 wage in Washington city winning early vote count

Mike Baker · November 6, 2013 5:00 am

New Jersey's minimum wage will rise by $1 to $8.25 an hour in January, and minimum wage workers will get an automatic annual cost-of-living increase after voters approved a constitutional amendment. (Photo: Thinkstock)

New Jersey voters support annual minimum wage hike

Washington Examiner · November 6, 2013 5:00 am

Michael Sestak, who served as the non-immigrant visa chief in the U.S. consulate in Ho Chi Minh City, plead guilty to bribery in relation to a scheme through which applicants paid $15,000 to $70,000 for visas to enter the U.S. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Former US visa chief in Vietnam pleads guilty to bribery

Associated Press · November 6, 2013 5:00 am

Former state Rep. Larry Tidemann said he and some colleagues sought information in 2008 on how the South Dakota International Business Institute was funded. (AP File)

Questions raised about immigration program in 2008

Washington Examiner · November 6, 2013 5:00 am

WASHINGTON - JULY 26: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) speaks during a news conference July 26, 2011 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. A number of Senate and House Republicans held the news conference to introduce the "Ensuring the Full Faith and Credit of the United States and Protecting America's Soldiers and Seniors Act" legislation. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

David Vitter seeks tougher response on food stamp misuse

Melinda Deslatte · November 6, 2013 5:00 am

A Tufted Puffin flies over Hawadax Island in the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. (AP/Island Conservation)

Report: Wildlife refuges create $2B for economy

Matthew Daly · November 5, 2013 6:07 pm

Protestors listen as National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander, center, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP/Susan Walsh)

National Security

German intel officials discuss NSA spying with US

Associated Press, Kimberly Dozier · November 5, 2013 5:01 pm

A U.S. border patrol vehicle drives along the U.S.-Mexico border fence near Yuma, Ariz., as seen from the outskirts of San Luis Rio Colorado, Mexico. (AP/Guillermo Arias)

Border Patrol rejects curbs on force

Elliot Spagat · November 5, 2013 5:00 am

Democratic mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio embraces his daughter Chiara as he talks to the media after voting Tuesday in the Park Slope neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP/Mark Lennihan)

Local, not US, issues at play in Tuesday voting

Thomas Beaumont · November 5, 2013 5:00 am

Democratic mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio, center, accompanied by Ken Thompson, fifth from right, candidate for Brooklyn district attorney, meet potential voters on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013, in the Crown Heights section of New York's borough of Brooklyn. De Blasio, 52, seems poised to become the first Democrat elected mayor in more than a generation, replacing Michael Bloomberg who helmed the nation's biggest city for 12 years. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Bill de Blasio is elected mayor of New York

Washington Examiner · November 5, 2013 5:00 am