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Google to add Galapagos Islands to Street View

AP Technology News - 19 min 29 sec ago

Few have explored the remote volcanic islands of the Galapagos archipelago, an otherworldly landscape inhabited by the world's largest tortoises and other fantastical creatures that inspired Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

Review: Google music plan solid, serendipitous

AP Technology News - 19 min 29 sec ago

Google's new music service offers a lot of eye candy to go with the tunes. The song selection of around 18 million tracks is comparable to popular services such as Spotify and Rhapsody, and a myriad of playlists curated along different genres provides a big playground for music lovers.

Museum starts night tours of signs from Vegas past

AP Entertainment News - 20 min 29 sec ago

The junked signs that attracted throngs to old Las Vegas have for years gathered dust in a neon boneyard just a few miles from the sleek mega-casinos on the Strip.

Civil trial over Jackson's death focuses on AEG

AP Entertainment News - 22 min 29 sec ago

A look at key moments this past week in the wrongful death trial in Los Angeles between Michael Jackson's mother, Katherine Jackson, and concert giant AEG Live LLC, and what is expected at court in the week ahead:

Iranian director facing jail appears in Cannes

AP Entertainment News - 22 min 29 sec ago

"Manuscripts Don't Burn" tells the story of an Iranian author secretly writing his memoirs and authorities' attempts to destroy the manuscript _ a topic the director, Mohammad Rasoulof, knows quite a bit about.

Actor Tyler Perry donates $100K to Ohio schools

AP Entertainment News - 22 min 29 sec ago

Filmmaker and actor Tyler Perry has surprised middle school students in Ohio by showing up at a musical concert and donating $100,000 to help student athletes in the city's South-Western schools.

Political landscape changes with improving economy

AP Politics - 1 hour 5 min ago

Alleged misbehavior by the Internal Revenue Service and other federal agencies gives the GOP something else to talk about and investigate as the economy clearly, if slowly, recovers on President Barack Obama's watch, robbing Republicans of a central argument against Democrats.

Kerry makes 1st official sub-Saharan Africa trip

AP Politics - 1 hour 5 min ago

Making his first official trip to sub-Saharan Africa, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday demanded that Nigeria respect human rights as it cracks down on Islamist extremists and pledged to work hard in the coming months to ease tensions between Sudan and South Sudan.

Obama's speechwriter: from intern to top wordsmith

AP Politics - 1 hour 5 min ago

When President Barack Obama decided to attend a memorial service in Arizona for victims of a deadly mass shooting that severely injured then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, he needed a speech. And fast.

Obama refocuses terror threat to pre-9/11 level

AP Politics - 1 hour 5 min ago

Some call it wishful thinking, but President Barack Obama has all but declared an end to the global war on terror.

Obama: Nation must do more for fallen heroes

AP Politics - 1 hour 5 min ago

President Barack Obama says the nation must do more than just remember its fallen heroes on Memorial Day.

Hagel: Cadets must stamp out sex assault scourge

AP Politics - 1 hour 5 min ago

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on Saturday that they must stamp out the scourge of sexual assault in the military.

Key senators tightly control immigration debate

AP Politics - 1 hour 5 min ago

For all the soothing words she heard from fellow Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii never had a chance to win a relatively modest change to far-reaching immigration legislation.

Obama's drone rules provide limits, ambiguity

AP Politics - 1 hour 5 min ago

President Barack Obama left plenty of ambiguity in new policy guidelines that he says will restrict how and when the U.S. can launch targeted drone strikes, leaving himself significant power over how and when the weapons can be deployed.

Community outreach key to Obama counterterror plan

AP Politics - 1 hour 5 min ago

Within hours of the Boston Marathon blasts, government officials and Boston Muslims called each other to offer assistance, calls that were the fruits of years of cultivating such relationships in an effort to ultimately prevent the very type of attack Boston experienced April 15.

Obama's new wordsmith believes in public service

AP Politics - 1 hour 5 min ago

President Barack Obama's new chief speechwriter is a 32-year-old fellow Chicagoan who believes in public service.

Toronto mayor denies he smokes crack cocaine

AP Canada News - 1 hour 14 min ago

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford denied that he smokes crack cocaine and said he is not an addict, breaking a week of silence over reports of a video purportedly showing him using the drug. Critics were not appeased, with one city councilor questioning whether the mayor told "the whole truth" and another calling on him to resign.

Gay wins 100 at Adidas Grand Prix in New York

AP Sports Other - 1 hour 16 min ago

Tyson Gay accomplished all his goals at the Adidas Grand Prix: He won, put his body through the grind of rounds _ and stayed injury-free.

Gay wins 100 at Adidas Grand Prix in New York

AP Sports News - 1 hour 16 min ago

Tyson Gay accomplished all his goals at the Adidas Grand Prix: He won, put his body through the grind of rounds _ and stayed injury-free.

Categories: National News from the Associated Press

Wright sets the LPGA pace in rainy Bahamas

AP Sports News - 1 hour 16 min ago

Lindsey Wright didn't realize she finished with six straight 3s on her scorecard. She couldn't name the holes where she made her seven birdies on Saturday. She only knew she played some pretty good golf in the rainy Bahamas LPGA Classic.

Categories: National News from the Associated Press

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