Relief

Online translation on the rise, changing lives

By MARTHA MENDOZAAP National Writer MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) - You might use Google Translate to read a hard-to-find Manga comic book or to decipher an obscure recipe for authentic Polish blintzes. Or, like Phillip and Niki Smith in rural Mississippi, you could use it to rescue a Chinese orphan

Online translation on the rise, changing lives

By MARTHA MENDOZAAP National Writer MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) - You might use Google Translate to read a hard-to-find Manga comic book or to decipher an obscure recipe for authentic Polish blintzes. Or, like Phillip and Niki Smith in rural Mississippi, you could use it to rescue a Chinese orphan

Iran, 6 powers meet for nuclear talks

By GEORGE JAHNAssociated Press ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) - Iran and world powers trying to curb Iran's nuclear progress are coming to the negotiating table this week with the window shrinking on diplomacy. Tehran is moving closer to the ability to make atomic arms, and that risks the threat of

Audit says Katrina aid may have been misspent

By ANDREW MIGAAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal investigators said Wednesday that as much as $700 million in federal aid intended to help some 24,000 Louisiana families elevate their homes after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 may have been misspent. A report by the Housing and Urban