Category: U.S. & World

NEW YORK (AP) — With 1.23 billion users in all the flavors and up-and-down stages of romantic relationships, Facebook knows a thing or two about love. For example, two people who are about to enter a relationship interact more and more on Facebook in the weeks leading up to making their coupled status official –… Continue reading What Facebook knows about love, in numbers

GOWER, Mo. (AP) — Eight times a day, a group of nuns files into a chapel in their rural northwest Missouri monastery to chant and worship. Quite unexpectedly, this private, prayerful pursuit has made the Benedictines of Mary a chart-topping recording industry curiosity. After being named Billboard’s No. 1 Classical Traditional Artist of 2012 and… Continue reading Chart-topping Missouri nuns to release Lent album

CHEBOYGAN, Mich. (AP) — From the bridge of the Coast Guard cutter Mackinaw, northern Lake Huron looks like a vast, snow-covered field dotted with ice slabs as big as boulders – a battleground for the icebreaker’s 58-member crew during one of the roughest winters in memory. It’s been so bitterly cold for so long in… Continue reading Great lakes become nearly covered with ice

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — President Barack Obama drew a link between climate change and California’s drought, and said the U.S. must do a better job of figuring out how to make sure everyone’s water needs are satisfied. On a tour of central California on Friday, Obama warned that weather-related disasters will only get worse.… Continue reading Obama: Figure out how to satisfy US water needs

HARRIMAN, Tenn. (AP) — They’re taking a roll of duct tape with them when they scuba dive down to what is intended to be their undersea home for 72 days in a first-ever venture that could break a world record. That way, “if one of us decides they want to leave, the other one is… Continue reading Two instructors to live, teach undersea

SOCHI, Russia (AP) — No protests. No real problems. But plenty of Putin. Midway through the Winter Olympics, things couldn’t be going much better for both Russia and its president, even if winter is actually missing from Sochi itself. The arenas and mountains are spectacular, the games have been peaceful and protest-free, and Russians seem… Continue reading Midway through, Sochi Games delivering for Putin

SEATTLE (AP) — A fossilized mammoth tusk discovered in a Seattle construction site was retrieved Friday evening from a 30-foot-deep pit to the sound of cheers and clicking from people taking pictures. Scientists and construction crews used a crane to retrieve and hoist the tusk, which was placed on a pallet, encased in plaster and… Continue reading Mammoth tusk lifted from Seattle construction pit

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Cable subscribers don’t give Comcast and Time Warner Cable good grades when it comes to customer satisfaction. So after Comcast announced its $45 billion purchase of Time Warner Cable Thursday, it didn’t take long for consumers to start venting their frustrations over high prices, spotty service and fears of a monopoly.… Continue reading Comcast-TWC merger worries consumers

WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.N. Commission of Inquiry has found that crimes against humanity have been committed in North Korea and recommends that its findings be referred to the International Criminal Court, two people familiar with the commission’s report have told The Associated Press. The commission, which conducted a yearlong investigation, has found evidence of… Continue reading Crimes against humanity in North Korea, UN panel finds