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Media watching for results of papal conclave

Media watching for results of papal conclave
By DAVID BAUDERAP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) - White smoke or black smoke? Maybe it's easier just to wait for a text message that a new pope has been elected. A Catholic organization has set up a website, www.popealarm.com, that lets people register to receive a text or email notification

AP IMPACT: Combat stress felt far from front lines

AP IMPACT: Combat stress felt far from front lines
By LOLITA C. BALDORAssociated Press LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. (AP) - They may never come face to face with a Taliban insurgent, never dodge a roadside bomb or take fire, but they still may be responsible for taking lives or putting their own colleagues in mortal danger. And now the military has

AP IMPACT: Combat stress felt far from front lines

AP IMPACT: Combat stress felt far from front lines
By LOLITA C. BALDORAssociated Press LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. (AP) - They may never come face to face with a Taliban insurgent, never dodge a roadside bomb or take fire, but they still may be responsible for taking lives or putting their own colleagues in mortal danger. And now the military has

City Council speaker launches NYC mayoral bid

City Council speaker launches NYC mayoral bid
By JENNIFER PELTZAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) - Long seen as a leading contender, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn formally launched Sunday what she hopes will be a history-making mayoral bid. A veteran of city politics, Quinn would be a groundbreaking mayor across two personal dimensions:

Top contenders to be the next pope

Top contenders to be the next pope
By The Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) - Cardinals from around the world gather this week in a conclave to elect a new pope following the stunning resignation of Benedict XVI. In the secretive world of the Vatican, there is no way to know who is in the running, and history has yielded plenty of

Japan's cleanup lags from tsunami, nuke accident

Japan's cleanup lags from tsunami, nuke accident
By MARI YAMAGUCHI and ELAINE KURTENBACHAssociated Press NARAHA, Japan (AP) - Two years after the triple calamities of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster ravaged Japan's northeastern Pacific coast, debris containing asbestos, lead, PCBs - and perhaps most worrying - radioactive waste due

Puerto Rico slowly warms to more gay rights

Puerto Rico slowly warms to more gay rights
By DANICA COTOAssociated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - The advance of gay rights across the United States is spreading into Puerto Rico, making the island a relatively gay-friendly outpost in a Caribbean region where sodomy laws and harassment of gays are still common. The governing Popular

Tycoon wants to send married couple on Mars flyby

Tycoon wants to send married couple on Mars flyby
By SETH BORENSTEINAP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - It's a road trip that could test the best of marriages: Mars. A tycoon announced plans Wednesday to send a middle-aged couple on a privately built spaceship to slingshot around the red planet and come back home, hopefully with their bodies

Tycoon wants to send married couple on Mars flyby

Tycoon wants to send married couple on Mars flyby
By SETH BORENSTEINAP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - It's a road trip that could test the best of marriages: Mars. A tycoon announced plans Wednesday to send a middle-aged couple on a privately built spaceship to slingshot around the red planet and come back home, hopefully with their bodies

Arkansas governor vetoes 20-week abortion bill

Arkansas governor vetoes 20-week abortion bill
By ANDREW DeMILLOAssociated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe on Tuesday vetoed a ban on most abortions in Arkansas at 20 weeks into a pregnancy, setting up an override fight with a Republican-controlled Legislature that has been pushing for more restrictions on the