IRS apologizes for targeting tea party groups
Written by STEPHEN OHLEMACHER,Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service is apologizing for what it acknowledges was "inappropriate" targeting of conservative political groups during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status.
Texas launches criminal probe into plant explosion
Written by ANGELA K. BROWN,Associated Press RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI,Associated Press
WACO, Texas (AP) — Texas law enforcement officials on Friday launched a criminal investigation into the massive fertilizer plant explosion that killed 14 people last month, after weeks of largely treating the blast as an industrial accident.
Ex-dictator convicted of genocide in Guatemala
Written by SONIA PEREZ DIAZ,Associated Press
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Former dictator Efrain Rios Montt's conviction of genocide is a historic moment in a country still healing from a brutal, three-decade civil war and his trial offered Guatemala's oppressed indigenous communities their first chance to be heard, human rights activists said.
Newtown panel: Tear down Sandy Hook, rebuild
Written by DAVE COLLINS,Associated Press
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Newtown parents Steven Uhde and Peter Barresi didn't want the town to abandon the elementary school property where 20 first-graders and six educators were killed in December and build a new school elsewhere, saying that would be like letting the gunman win.
Bangladesh workers find survivor in factory rubble
Written by JULHAS ALAM,Associated Press
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Rescue workers in Bangladesh freed a woman buried for 17 days inside the wreckage of a garment factory building that collapsed, killing more than 1,000 people.
The rescuers discovered the woman Friday afternoon and ordered the cranes and bulldozers to immediately stop work. They used handsaws to cut her out of the rubble, and the crowd gathered at the scene erupted in cheers when she was freed. She was rushed to a military hospital in an ambulance.
Soldiers at the site said her name was Reshma and described her as being in remarkably good shape despite her ordeal.
Abdur Razzak, a warrant officer with the military's engineering department who spotted her in the wreckage, said she was OK and could even walk.
Workers at the site began tearing through the nearby wreckage looking for other survivors.
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More than just a mother, now she's your 'friend'
Written by AP
Josh Knoller, a young professional in New York City, spent years refusing his mother's "Friend Request" on Facebook before, eventually, "caving in." Today they have an agreement: she'll try not to make embarrassing comments, and he can delete them if she does.
Global network of hackers steal $45M from ATMs
Written by COLLEEN LONG,Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — The sophistication of a global network of thieves who drained cash machines around the globe of an astonishing $45 million in mere hours sent ripples through the security world, not merely for the size of the operation and ease with which it was carried out, but also for the threat that more such thefts may be in store.
Former US official describes Libya attack
Written by DONNA CASSATA,Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former top diplomat in Libya on Wednesday delivered a riveting minute-by-minute account of the chaotic events during the deadly assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi last September, with a 2 a.m. call from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and confusion about the fate of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens.