NATIONAL NEWS
Tropical Storm Beryl could snarl holiday traffic
Tropical Storm Beryl threatened to snarl traffic on Memorial Day as it brought drenching rain, winds and the possibility of flooding to the southeastern U.S. coast....
AP Photos: Americans honor troops for Memorial Day
Boy Scouts carry a large American flag through the Memphis National Cemetery in Tennessee, where scouts also placed flags on 42,000 graves. In Little Rock, Ark., a 4-year-old girl fills her arms with flags to place on gravesites....
Lighter winds help in fight against N. Mexico fire
GLENWOOD, N.M. (AP) -- Lighter winds aided crews battling a massive wildfire in southwestern New Mexico's Gila National Forest, but they still were unable to stop the blaze that has raged across more than 190 square miles of mountainous forest lands since last week....
3 rescued from plane crash site in remote Idaho
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Hours after their plane crashed on a steep and snowy mountainside in Idaho, a California fireman, his wife and their adult daughter were airlifted to safety by National Guard rescuers....
Campaigns mine online data to target voters
NEW YORK (AP) -- Voters who click on President Barack Obama's campaign website are likely to start seeing display ads promoting his re-election bid on their Facebook pages and other sites they visit. Voters searching Google for information about Mitt Romney may notice a 15-second ad promoting the Republican presidential hopeful the next time they watch a video online....
Obama to honor fallen troops on Memorial Day
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is paying tribute to the nation's fallen warriors on Memorial Day, attending a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery and honoring those who died during the Vietnam War....
Quotations of the day
"It's difficult to imagine that the Syrian government would not only shell and mortar but also use point-blank execution against 40 plus women and 30 plus children under age 10. This is definitely the atrocity that has to be investigated." - Russia's deputy U.N. ambassador Alexander Pankin on allegations that the Syrian government attacked residential areas of the town of Houla....
Crowds gather for Golden Gate Bridge celebration
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Thousands of people flocked to San Francisco's waterfront and onto Golden Gate Bridge on Sunday to celebrate the famous span's 75th birthday....
Quebec students, government to resume negotiations
MONTREAL (AP) -- Quebec students and the provincial government return to the bargaining table on Monday in a high-stakes attempt to put an end to a months-long dispute over tuition hikes that has led to clashes with police and mass arrests....
Video captures plane before it crashes, killing 4
Security video captured a small plane taking off from a southern Utah airport just before it crashed about 300 yards from the runway, killing all four men aboard, a federal investigator said Sunday....
Missing La. student's bike found under bridge
LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) -- A missing Louisiana woman's bicycle has been found in a remote, swampy area under a highway bridge in Iberville Parish, about 25 miles from the spot where she was last seen eight days earlier....
WORLD NEWS
Tony Blair says he ducked fight with UK media
LONDON (AP) -- Former Prime Minister Tony Blair testified Monday he never challenged the influential British press because doing so would have plunged his administration in a drawn-out and politically damaging fight....
Family of doctor in bin Laden hunt blasts trial
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- The brother of a doctor sentenced to 33 years for helping the United States track down Osama bin Laden says he is innocent and the Pakistani trial that convicted him was a sham....
Father of slain Tiananmen protester kills himself
BEIJING (AP) -- The father of a man killed in the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown has hanged himself in protest after two decades of failed attempts to seek government redress, a support group said Monday....
Shares in Spain's Bankia plunge on bailout plan
MADRID (AP) -- Concern over troubled Spanish lender Bankia and the government's ability to come up with the (EURO)19 billion ($23.8 billion) bailout the bank needs to bolster its defenses sent the nationalized lender's stock price plummeting and Spain's borrowing costs soaring Monday....
2 Tibetans set selves on fire outside Lhasa temple
BEIJING (AP) -- Two men engulfed themselves in a burst of flames outside a Buddhist temple popular with tourists and pilgrims in Lhasa, marking the first time a recent wave of self-immolations to protest Chinese rule has reached the tightly guarded Tibetan capital....
Turkish court charges Israeli military members
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- A Turkish court on Monday formally pressed charges against members of Israel's military for the killing of nine people aboard a Turkish ship trying to break Israel's blockade of Gaza in 2010, Turkey's state-run news agency said....
Explosion hits downtown Nairobi, 16 wounded
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- An explosion ripped through a building full of small shops in downtown Nairobi on Monday, wounding at least 16 people, the police commissioner said....
Annan 'horrified' by weekend massacre in Syria
BEIRUT (AP) -- Special envoy Kofi Annan on Monday called on "every individual with a gun" in Syria to lay down arms, saying he was horrified by a weekend massacre that killed more than 100 people, including women and small children....
Russian FM: Both Syrian sides to blame for deaths
MOSCOW (AP) -- Both sides in the Syria conflict "had a hand" in the deaths of more than 100 civilians in Houla, Russia's foreign minister said Monday, calling for a full investigation....
LONDON (AP) -- Heckler bursts in on ex-British PM Tony Blair during testimony at UK inquiry into media ethics....
Palestinian electoral officials in Gaza
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Election officials from the West Bank arrived in the Gaza Strip on Monday to prepare the way for a long-overdue vote, taking a key step toward repairing a five-year rift between Palestinians....
China ruling party expels former railways minister
BEIJING (AP) -- China's ruling Communist Party on Monday expelled a former railways minister who had overseen a massive expansion of high-speed rail, accusing him of taking bribes and fostering major corruption throughout the country's railway system....
