LOS ANGELES (AP) — Carson Kressley can go back to evaluating wardrobes.
The fashion guru was booted off "Dancing With the Stars" on Tuesday night. It wasn't unexpected, given that the judges of ABC's TV dance competition had given him the lowest scores for his 1980s-themed routine a night …
NEW YORK (AP) — It came and went in a flash, a number on a board for seconds at a time, but its symbolic power couldn't be dismissed.
The Dow Jones industrial average, powered higher all year by optimism that the economic recovery is finally for real, crossed 13,000 on Tuesday for the first time since May 2008.
The last time the Dow occupied such rarefied territory, unemployment was a healthy 5.4 percent, and Lehman Brothers was a solvent investment bank. Financial crises happened in other countries, or the history books.
The milestone Tuesday came about two hours into the trading day. The Dow was above 13,000 for about 30 seconds, and for slightly longer at about noon …
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With the presidential race in full swing, the U.S. Supreme Court is currently considering a case that could have a huge impact on the nation's electoral system forever. It revolves around an Indiana statue that requires voters to show current stateissued photo identification when they cast their ballots.
Last Election Day, 61-year-old Valerie Wilhams attempted to vote in the lobby of her retirement home as she had the past two elections. This time around, poll workers turned her away because she lacked a current Indiana-issued photo identification card.
Her telephone bill, social security letter and an expired Indiana driver's license weren't enough to …
The U.S. and major European powers said they will recognize Kosovo, whose ethnic Albanian leaders declared independence from Serbia. Giddy Kosovars danced in the streets.
Kosovo's leaders sent letters to 192 countries seeking formal recognition and Britain, France and Germany endorsed the declaration. But other European Union nations were opposed, including Spain which has battled a violent Basque separatist movement for decades.
Australia also formally recognized Kosovo as an independent state, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said in a statement Tuesday.
U.S. President George W. Bush hailed Kosovo's historic bid for statehood as Washington …
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican anti-poverty official has been fired after posting a comment on social media sites suggesting that poor people smell bad.
Mexico's anti-poverty agency says Carlos Talavera has been fired as director of outreach brigades in the western city of Uruapan after a Facebook posting of his was re-tweeted on social media sites.
The original …
Dorothy didn't go back to Kansas to play volleyball. But shecould have found a good game in Chicago.
Earlier this year, while evaluating the talent competing in aclub tournament in Chicago, a national talent scout said: "Thequality of volleyball in Chicago isn't as high as it used to be."
"That may be true," a coach from Wichita State said, "but I canstill find more good players on this court in one afternoon than Ican find in the state of Kansas in one year."
According to Chicago-based talent scout Bill …
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea celebrated the return of nearly 300 royal books looted by French soldiers in the 19th century with solemn ceremonies Saturday bringing alive the color and pageantry of a bygone royal age.
Bearers dressed in bright red costumes of the Joseon Dynasty carried a palanquin containing some of the books to central Seoul's Gyeongbok Palace to the piercing sound of traditional horns and gongs.
An official took the books wrapped in red cloth and placed them near an alter with another set for a Confucian enshrinement ceremony carried out in a square on the palace grounds complete with offerings of food, incense and drink. A report of the books' …
