Monthly Archives: June 2011

WIMBLEDON, England – Once a teen sensation, Maria Sharapova is the elder stateswoman at Wimbledon this year. At 24, the Russian is the oldest of the women’s semifinalists at the All England Club, and by far the most experienced. Being … Continue reading →

WASHINGTON – Stephen Colbert delights in lampooning politicians on his Comedy Central show, but he plans to raise some serious issues about public disclosure of corporate campaign contributions before the Federal Election Commission on Thursday. Colbert, who plays a conservative … Continue reading →

OTTAWA, Ontario – Prince William and Kate arrive in Canada on Thursday for their first official overseas trip since their wedding, in a visit that is expected to draw record-numbers of star-struck crowds and well-wishers hoping to catch a glimpse … Continue reading →

WASHINGTON – Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia exercised a rarely used power last fall to let Philip Morris USA and three other big tobacco companies delay making multimillion-dollar payments for a program to help people quit smoking. Scalia, a cigarette … Continue reading →

NEW YORK – A catastrophic flood emptied New Orleans of much of its black youth. Powerful social forces may be doing a similar thing to places like Harlem and Chicago’s South Side. Over the past decade, the inner-city neighborhoods that … Continue reading →

WASHINGTON – Older adults of the same age and income with similar medical histories would pay sharply different amounts for private health insurance due to what appears to be an unintended consequence of the new health care law. Aware of … Continue reading →

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. – Los Alamos nuclear laboratory officials say it could be a few days before they’ll know the extent of how experiments at the facility that created the first atomic bomb have been affected by a shutdown caused … Continue reading →

WASHINGTON – In prodding Congress to act swiftly to avoid a government default on its financial obligations, President Barack Obama has Isaac Bassett and a long history of procrastination conspiring against him. From 1844 until his death in 1895, Bassett, … Continue reading →

PORONG PRISON, Indonesia – A sweeping crackdown on terrorism in the past decade has spawned a new problem in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation: Militants in jail are recruiting new followers to their cause. Prisons threaten to undermine … Continue reading →