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Honduran teens, mom navigate life after US reunion 08/11/2014 04:10pm • LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ Associated Press MIAMI (AP) -- The mother arrived early at Miami International Airport, pacing the baggage claim hall until, at last, she spotted her.Denia Zelaya had last seen her eldest daughter nearly 10 years earlier. On an early morning in 2004, she kissed Anita's head as the Kosovo police arrest 40 alleged Islamic radicals 08/11/2014 01:55pm • NEBI QENA Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) -- Kosovo police on Monday arrested at least 40 people in a major operation targeting Islamic radicals suspected of fighting alongside extremists in Iraq and Syria.Spokesman Baki Kelani said weapons, ammunition and explosives were seized as hundreds o 90 years on, push for ERA ratification continues 08/11/2014 11:56am • DAVID CRARY AP National Writer Drafted by a suffragette in 1923, the Equal Rights Amendment has been stirring up controversy ever since. Many opponents considered it dead when a 10-year ratification push failed in 1982, yet its backers on Capitol Hill, in the Illinois statehouse and elsewhere are ma Liberians demand that govt picks up Ebola bodies 08/11/2014 05:40am • JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH Associated Press MONROVA, Liberia (AP) -- Riot police raced to quell a demonstration blocking Liberia's busiest highway Saturday as an angry crowd protested the government's delays in collecting the bodies of Ebola victims.In Guinea, where the deadly Ebola outbreak emerged in Ma 5 things to know about presidential state of play 08/11/2014 04:10am • CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Five things to know about the state of play in the 2016 presidential contest, unless you're at the beach, in which case all of this can wait. Really.___1. IT'S NOT OVER TILL IT'S OVER AND IT HASN'T EVEN BEGUNHillary Rodham Clinton has it locked up Nebraska same-sex marriage ban unwavering 08/09/2014 08:04pm • MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- As state bans on same-sex marriages fall across the country, some Nebraska officials are holding strong to that state's status of having one of the nation's most restrictive laws, which affects some of the most basic aspects of gay couples' lives Vikings player shot in calf in Minneapolis 08/09/2014 05:20pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Minneapolis police were investigating a shooting inside a downtown nightclub that injured 9 people early Saturday, including a Minnesota Vikings defensive tackle.Linval Joseph went to the 400 SoundBar nightclub sometime after Minnesota's 10-6 win over the Oakland Raiders in the p Egypt court dissolves Muslim Brotherhood party 08/09/2014 02:12pm • SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's highest administrative court dissolved Saturday the political party of the banned Muslim Brotherhood and ordered its assets liquidated, in the latest move against the 86-year old Islamist group.The decision against the Freedom and Justice Party co Google using its clout to widen use of encryption 08/09/2014 06:30am • MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Google is wielding the power of its dominant Internet search engine to push more websites into protecting the people using their services.The move, announced late Wednesday, involves a change in Google's closely guarded formula for determini Democrats search for replacement in US Senate race 08/08/2014 10:59pm • LISA BAUMANN Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Montana Democrats were casting about Friday for a last-minute U.S. Senate candidate to take on Republican Rep. Steve Daines, after their hopes to hold the seat in November suffered a huge blow with the withdrawal of incumbent Sen. John Walsh amid p 2016 preview? Perry, Cruz at same GOP gathering 08/08/2014 08:10pm • WILL WEISSERT Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- Sounding like he's almost made up his mind to run again for president, Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Friday told a national audience of conservatives that it's time for a rebellion against a "power-hungry, oppressive" Barack Obama.Hours later, fell US warns Russia against intervention in Ukraine 08/08/2014 06:20pm • EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The United States warned Russia on Friday that any further intervention in Ukraine, including under the pretense of delivering humanitarian aid, would be viewed as "an invasion of Ukraine."U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power delivered the warning a McConnell courts coal country votes 08/08/2014 02:50am • DAVID ESPO AP Special Correspondent MIDDLESBORO, Ky. (AP) -- Campaigning in coal country, Sen. Mitch McConnell pinned the loss of thousands of Kentucky mining jobs on President Barack Obama's Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday and said his Democratic election rival would be a vote to contin Syria militants leave Lebanese border town 08/08/2014 02:50am • FADI TAWIL Associated Press LABWEH, Lebanon (AP) -- Militants from Syria who overran a Lebanese border town mostly withdrew back across the rugged hills separating the two countries as a cease-fire appeared to hold Thursday, allowing Lebanese troops to free seven fellow soldiers and ambulances to ev China tightens grip on instant messaging services 08/07/2014 03:18pm • BEIJING (AP) -- China's government tightened control over popular instant messaging services Thursday after telling South Korea that access to some foreign services was blocked because they were used to exchange terrorism-related information.The government announced that only established media compa