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Vatican defrocks ex-ambassador in sex abuse case 06/28/2014 05:14am • NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The Vatican has defrocked its former ambassador to the Dominican Republic for sexually abusing boys. It's the first time a top papal envoy has been convicted of the crime and signals that Pope Francis is serious about imposing "zero tolerance" fo Column: Carrot and stick needed to change Suarez 06/27/2014 04:54pm • JOHN LEICESTER AP Sports Columnist BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil (AP) -- How is it that footballers are among the few who've not had much to say about the bite seen around the world, now punished with an appropriately tough ban?Luis Suarez's peers surely can't all be fearful that he might chomp them next i Montana judge: Suspension over remarks unwarranted 06/27/2014 04:22pm • MATT VOLZ Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- A judge who faces suspension for saying a 14-year-old girl appeared "older than her chronological age" during her rapist's sentencing said he believes the penalty is unwarranted and proposed the Montana Supreme Court withdraw it.Judge G. Todd Baugh su Sen. Baker, who posed famous Watergate query, dies 06/27/2014 01:10pm • CONNIE CASS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Howard Baker's question sliced to the core of Watergate: "What did the president know and when did he know it?"Repeated over and again in the senator's mild Tennessee drawl, those words guided Americans through the tangle of Watergate characters and ch Jury reaches verdict in Hawaii death penalty case 06/26/2014 11:00pm • JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) -- Jurors decided Thursday whether a former soldier convicted of killing his 5-year-old daughter will be executed or sentenced to life in prison, but they asked the judge to delay reading the verdict because some jurors feel emotionally drained. Tunisia to revamp drug laws as prisons fill up 06/26/2014 12:41pm • BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) -- Tunisia is revamping its draconian drug laws, which have been condemned for having minimum sentences of at least a year and not distinguishing between hard and soft drugs.The changes are part of Tunisia's efforts to democratize after its 20 'Get a warrant' to search cellphones, Justices say 06/26/2014 01:18am • MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- In an emphatic defense of privacy in the digital age, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police generally may not search the cellphones of people they arrest without first getting search warrants.Cellphones are unlike anything else police US to seek data protection for EU citizens 06/25/2014 05:46pm • ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- The Obama administration will seek to introduce legislation that grants Europeans the same privacy protection rights as U.S. citizens when their data is being transferred to the U.S. for law enforcement purposes, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday.The U.S. and EU UN: Ivory, charcoal funds criminal, terror groups 06/24/2014 05:26pm • JASON STRAZIUSO Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Environmental crime such as the poaching of elephants for ivory and the selling of illegal charcoal is helping to finance criminal, militia and terrorists groups, said a report from the United Nations Environment Program released Tuesday.The So C African Republic at risk of genocide, says group 06/24/2014 10:41am • PAUL SCHEMM Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) -- In the early hours of Monday morning, a Christian militia swept down on the village of Ardo-Djobi near Bambari in the Central African Republic killing 18 Muslims of the Fulani ethnicity. Just a few days earlier, Muslim gunmen had attacked Christian Defendant ill, Bangladesh war crimes trial delayed 06/24/2014 06:10am • JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- A Bangladesh court Tuesday delayed a verdict against the top leader of an Islamist party charged with war crimes after the defendant became ill.A special tribunal was set to deliver the verdict for Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami, who Outcry after Egypt sentences 3 reporters to prison 06/24/2014 06:04am • SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press CAIRO (AP) -- An Egyptian court on Monday convicted three Al-Jazeera journalists and sentenced them to seven years in prison on terrorism-related charges after a trial dismissed by rights groups as a politically motivated sham. The verdict brought a landslide of intern Reporter's father says stunned by Egypt decision 06/24/2014 01:43am • ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- The father of an Australian journalist jailed in Egypt said his family was stunned by the court's decision to imprison his son, and Australia's prime minister vowed his government would work quickly to free the reporter and get him out of Cair Seattle council OKs city's 1st female police chief 06/23/2014 08:40pm • SEATTLE (AP) -- A former leader of Boston's police force was sworn in Monday to run a Seattle department that has been struggling to carry out a reform agreement under federal oversight.The City Council on Monday approved hiring Kathleen O'Toole as Seattle's new police chief. The one-time Boston pol US wants Insane Clown Posse lawsuit dismissed 06/23/2014 07:22pm • ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) -- Lawyers for the federal government and fans of rap-metal duo Insane Clown Posse clashed in court Monday over whether the FBI can be sued for the negative fallout of describing them as a loosely organized gang.Some fans, called Juggalos, claim to have lost cu