Mar 13, 2012 – Rescuers searched frantically for survivors Tuesday after a packed ferry carrying more than 150 people capsized in south Bangladesh. The ferry sank in the Meghna river after it collided with another vehicle early Tuesday morning. It was traveling to Dhaka, the nation's capital, from Shariatpur district.

Mar 13, 2012 – President Barack Obama, a well-known basketball fan, will treat British Prime Minister David Cameron to a little March Madness Tuesday as the two head to Ohio to catch an NCAA men's tournament basketball game. There will be two games tipping off the tournament in Dayton, Ohio, a swing state. During halftime...

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Mar 12, 2012 – When Vice President Joe Biden hits the campaign trail in the pivotal swing state of Ohio this week, he will likely focus on one of the Obama administration’s successes – the bailout of the auto industry. Biden gives the first in a series of four high profile speeches at a...

Mar 12, 2012 – It sounds like a headline from the The Onion, but it's true: A project called "Homeless Hotspots" is turning homeless Austin residents into mobile wireless hotspots outside the South by Southwest convention center. It's part marketing stunt, part genuine charitable initiative -- and it's generating lots of double-takes and chatter from...

Mar 12, 2012 – Invisible Children, the nonprofit group that produced a hugely popular half-hour documentary about the notorious African warlord Joseph Kony, says it will release a new film Monday to respond to criticism and questions over its approach. The group's "KONY 2012" video had been viewed more than 72 million times on YouTube...

Mar 12, 2012 – Final details were filed in federal court Monday in the $26 billion settlement to help struggling homeowners and settle charges against big banks of abusive and negligent foreclosure practices. The Department of Justice filed five separate consent agreements, each more than 300 pages, between 49 states, federal agencies and the largest...

Mar 12, 2012 – The Georgia Legislature is hotly debating a bill that would allow the state to cover the costs of charter schools even if local school boards reject them, setting up a case that could set national precedent on educational reform. The legislation to amend the state constitution would allow the Peach State...

Mar 12, 2012 – U.S. investors were bracing for a choppy day Monday. With little on the economic or corporate docket, futures were barely moving, a sign that investors may stay on the sidelines ahead of Tuesday's Fed meeting. The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU), S&P 500 (SPX) and Nasdaq (COMP) futures were little changed...

Mar 12, 2012 – Israeli and Palestinian officials offered conflicting accounts Monday of a blast that killed a 15-year-old boy in Gaza. Palestinian medical and security sources said the teen was the fourth civilian casualty in four days of Israeli airstrikes, but the Israeli military said it did not attack the area where the death...

Mar 12, 2012 – At least 45 women and children were stabbed and burned to death late Sunday in the Syrian city of Homs, opposition activists said, after peace talks between a U.N. special envoy and the Syrian regime failed to yield a cease-fire. The slaughter in Homs took place in the Karm al Zaytoun...

Mar 12, 2012 – Republican claims about the benefits of the Keystone XL oil pipeline are greatly overblown, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Sunday. "It won't lower the price of oil. Construction won't be complete for a long, long time," Reid said during an interview on CNN’s State of the Union, referring to...

Mar 12, 2012 – A new poll shows that nearly two-thirds of Americans disapprove of the way President Obama is handling gasoline prices, a finding which could blunt his election-year political gains from the brightening economic picture. Sixty-five percent disapprove of Obama’s performance on prices at the pump that have surged in recent weeks, while...

Mar 12, 2012 – A recent rash of killings of people perceived to be gay or emo in Iraq has stoked fear within those communities, which worry the government might be unwilling or unable to protect them. At least 14 such victims were killed in Baghdad in the past three weeks, according to a senior...

Mar 12, 2012 – The Afghan Taliban vowed Monday to exact revenge for the killing of 16 civilians, allegedly by an American soldier who went on a house-to-house shooting rampage Sunday in two villages near his base. Afghanistan's parliament, meanwhile, demanded a public trial for the suspect, who is accused of killing nine children, three...

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Mar 30, 2012 – Rock 'n' roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis is married for a seventh time -- this time to the ex-wife of a cousin whose sister Lewis wed when she was 13 -- his representative said Thursday. Lewis, 76, married Judith Brown, who was previously married to his cousin, Rusty, on...

Mar 30, 2012 – Nineteen people have been arrested in a series of police raids on suspected Islamists, French President Nicolas Sarkozy told French radio Friday morning. The raids come a week after gunman Mohammed Merah, who killed seven people, was shot dead after a long siege in the southwestern city of Toulouse....

Mar 30, 2012 – The highest earning hedge fund manager of 2011 essentially won the equivalent of seven of the current $540 Mega Million jackpots last year. Bridgewater Associates' Ray Dalio's reward for his bets on where the markets were heading: $3.9 billion, according to Absolute Return's list of the top-earning hedge fund...

Mar 29, 2012 – The Internal Revenue Service wants to add about 4,000 agents to hunt down tax cheats and still plans to spend $303 million building a system to oversee Obamacare even though its future looks bleak in the U.S. Supreme Court. A new Government Accountability Office review of the IRS 2012...

Mar 29, 2012 – On Tuesday, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, refused to join his fellow Republicans in criticizing President Obama over the “hot mic” comments the president made to the president of Russia at a summit in South Korea. “When the president is overseas,” Boehner told reporters, “I think it’s appropriate that...

Mar 29, 2012 – The catchy Subway sandwich shop jingle involving a variety of foot-long sandwiches available for $5 doesn't apply in San Francisco. The sandwich-making chain stopped selling the five-dollar footlongs in San Francisco due to the "high cost of doing business," according to SF Weekly. Signs posted at Subway sandwich shops sadly inform San...

Mar 29, 2012 – Google on Wednesday began letting people get monthly reports summarizing what they have been up to at the Internet titan's free online services. A freshly-added feature keeps people posted on patterns at Gmail, YouTube, online search and other Google venues visited while signed into their user accounts with the...

Mar 29, 2012 – Instead of saving up for their sons' college education, Bill Dunham and his wife are taking out loans for high school. Their eldest son will begin ninth grade at a school in Boston where annual tuition runs around $10,000 -- and they already pay $5,000 a year for their younger...

Mar 29, 2012 – Best Buy Co. said it plans to close 50 big box stores and open 100 small mobile locations in the U.S. in fiscal 2013 and cut $800 million in costs by fiscal 2015. The news came Thursday as the biggest U.S. specialty electronics retailer posted a fiscal fourth quarter loss...