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By FEDERICO QUILODRAN
2010-08-23T01:21:40Z
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- Chile's president euphorically waved the note, written deep inside a collapsed mine, that his country waited 17 agonizing days to see: "All 33 of us are fine in the shelter," one of the trapped miners wrote in red letters....
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By VERENA DOBNIK
2010-08-23T00:09:00Z
NEW YORK (AP) -- The proposed mosque near ground zero drew hundreds of fever-pitch demonstrators Sunday, with opponents carrying signs associating Islam with blood, supporters shouting, "Say no to racist fear!" and American flags waving on both sides....
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By ALAN ROBINSON
2010-08-23T00:05:37Z
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Don't feel too sorry for the cellar-dwelling Pittsburgh Pirates. Losing has been profitable....
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By JULIET WILLIAMS
2010-08-22T23:15:59Z
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- For the first time in memory, California Republicans have a diverse statewide slate of candidates to field this fall, a lineup their state party chairman calls "an inspirational ticket." Coupled with national momentum for conservatives, the California GOP is hoping this might be their breakthrough year....
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By NASSER KARIMI
2010-08-22T23:14:23Z
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday inaugurated the country's first domestically built unmanned bomber aircraft, calling it an "ambassador of death" to Iran's enemies....
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By MARY CLARE JALONICK
2010-08-22T23:14:13Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two Iowa farms that recalled more than a half-billion eggs linked to as many as 1,300 cases of salmonella poisoning share suppliers of chickens and feed as well as ties to an Iowa business routinely cited for violating state and federal law....
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By CHRISTINA HOAG
2010-08-22T22:02:42Z
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Next month's opening of the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools will be auspicious for a reason other than its both storied and infamous history as the former Ambassador Hotel, where the Democratic presidential contender was assassinated in 1968. With an eye-popping price tag of $578 million, it will mark the inauguration of the nation's most expensive public school ever....
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By MATTHEW BROWN
2010-08-22T22:02:48Z
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Yellowstone's grizzlies are going to be particularly hungry this fall, and that means more dangerous meetings with humans in a year that is already the area's deadliest on record....
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Posted: August 22nd, 2010, 6:02pm EDT
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2010-08-22T22:02:53Z
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- "True Blood" co-stars Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer have taken their true love to the altar. The couple's publicists said in a statement the 28-year-old Paquin and 40-year-old Moyer were married Saturday night at a ceremony in Malibu, Calif., "surrounded by their family and friends."...
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By JEREMY HAINSWORTH and ROB GILLIES
2010-08-15T06:09:06Z
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- Hundreds of Tamil asylum seekers from war-ravaged Sri Lanka spent a grueling three months at sea in a cramped, ramshackle cargo ship but arrived in fairly good condition, Canadian officials said Saturday....