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Choose Between an Online Graduate Certificate, Degree Program 10/29/2014 12:00am • When it comes to making a decision about graduate online education, many may wonder whether to select a certificate or degree program. Online certificates, which typically take a year or less to complete, often focus on developing a particular skill or furthering knowledge in a more specific area, UN General Assembly condemns US Cuba embargo 10/28/2014 03:27pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The U.N. General Assembly voted Tuesday for the 23rd year in a row to condemn the U.S. commercial, economic and financial embargo against Cuba.The symbolic vote passed 188-2, with only the U.S. and Israel voting against it. Three nations abstained: Palau, Micronesia and the Ma Poll: Neighbors key to coping with disasters 10/27/2014 11:00am • EMILY C. DOOLEY Associated Press HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) -- Neighbor helping neighbor. Trust in a community. Looking out for each other.An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey suggests that those factors -- collectively termed "social resilience"-- have a big impact on how pre What 'Gone Girl' Does (and Doesn't) Tell Us About Mental Illness 10/27/2014 12:00am • "Gone Girl's" Amy Elliot Dunne is a lot of things. She's beautiful, she's manipulative, she's self-centered -- and she's very decidedly not normal. Dunne also could be a lot of things. She could be a psychopath, she could have narcissistic personality disorder -- or she could just be a girl gone w AP source: Addae didn't show symptoms until Friday 10/25/2014 11:20pm • BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Chargers safety Jahleel Addae didn't show symptoms of a concussion until Friday afternoon, a day after having two scary reactions following hits in a loss at Denver, a person with knowledge of the situation said.The person spoke to The Associated Pres 5 Food Label Items You Need to Start Reading 10/23/2014 12:00am • I have some good and some bad news. First, the bad: If terms on food labels like "all natural," "free range" and "light," confused you in the past, they will continue to be confusing. Sometimes it feels like you have to be an interpreter while food shopping to decode the deceptive words on package A Republican Senate means changing the chairmen 10/22/2014 06:36pm • DONNA CASSATA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- If Republicans win the Senate, the Pentagon should brace for constant grilling from Sen. John McCain, who has found fault with nearly every aspect of President Barack Obama's national security policies.McCain would be on tap to serve as chairman of t Platini, African confederation in spat over Ebola 10/22/2014 02:40pm • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) -- UEFA President Michel Platini is demanding that the Confederation of African Football withdraws an "insulting" statement that claimed the Frenchman was interfering in its affairs over Ebola.The spat revolves around a television interview where Platini was asked about Ebola cases rise sharply in western Sierra Leone 10/22/2014 07:21am • CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY Associated Press Writer FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) -- After emerging months ago in eastern Sierra Leone, Ebola is now hitting the western edges of the country where the capital is located with dozens of people falling sick each day, the government said Tuesday. So many people EU foreign ministers reject travel ban 10/20/2014 04:20pm • LUXEMBOURG (AP) -- European officials are rejecting the idea of stopping direct flights from West Africa as a means of stopping the spread of Ebola.Meeting in Luxembourg, the EU foreign ministers promised to play an "active role" in boosting the world's response to the Ebola outbreak. They are setti Obama switches gears, confronting Ebola head on 10/20/2014 05:10am • JIM KUHNHENN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama delayed acting on immigration and an attorney general nomination this fall to dodge the politics of the midterm campaign season. But there was one topic he could not push aside -- Ebola.The past week's jarring Ebola developments Cyanide homicide trial likely battle of experts 10/19/2014 07:46pm • JOE MANDAK Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Nobody had any reason to question why a University of Pittsburgh medical researcher bought more than a half-pound of cyanide with his school-issued credit card, until his neurologist wife suddenly fell ill and died a few days later.Now Dr. Robert Ferran Mission Unaccomplished: Containing Ebola in Africa 10/19/2014 01:14pm • MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP Chief Medical Writer Looking back, the mistakes are easy to see: Waiting too long, spending too little, relying on the wrong people, thinking small when they needed to think big. Many people, governments and agencies share the blame for failing to contain Ebola when it emerged Lawyer: Baby found dead in home had lived for days 10/17/2014 03:49pm • DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer BOSTON (AP) -- A Massachusetts woman facing charges after the skeletal remains of three babies were found in her squalid home had the babies starting about eight years ago, including one infant she said was born alive and lived for several days, her lawyer said Japan PM sends offerings to war shrine 10/17/2014 03:37pm • MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent religious offerings Friday to a Tokyo shrine honoring the war dead including convicted wartime leaders, as dozens of lawmakers prayed at the site in a ceremony that drew a rebuke from China.The Yasukuni Shrine honor