The Wire

  • Super Bowl 50 site to be decided Tuesday

    Posted on May 20, 2013 at 10:01am

    (AP) — NFL owners will vote on the sites of the 50th and 51st Super Bowls on Tuesday at their spring meetings.

  • Court: Should whistleblower protection be wider?

    Posted on May 20, 2013 at 10:00am

    (AP) — The Supreme Court will decide if government whistleblower protection applies to employees of a privately-held contractor or the subcontractor of a publicly-held company.

  • Commutes long, slow after Conn. train derailment

    Posted on May 20, 2013 at 9:58am

    (AP) — Connecticut commuters endured slow trips to work Monday following last week's train collision that that injured 72 people and disrupted rail service into New York City.

  • Egypt: Security beefed up in Sinai after abduction

    Posted on May 20, 2013 at 9:56am

    (AP) — Dozens of Egyptian military and police armored vehicles crossed into Sinai on Monday, beefing up the security presence in the volatile peninsula five days after suspected militants kidnapped six policemen and a border guard there.

  • Stocks open slightly lower on Wall Street

    Posted on May 20, 2013 at 9:49am

    (AP) — Stocks are opening slightly lower on Wall Street as the stock market comes off of four straight weeks of gains.

  • Jordan: Arab Spring paved way for press freedoms

    Posted on May 20, 2013 at 9:43am

    (AP) — Jordan's prime minister says the Arab Spring has forced governments in the region to allow more freedom of expression and of the press.

  • Israel gunman shoots 4 dead at bank, kills self

    Posted on May 20, 2013 at 9:42am

    (AP) — A gunman stormed into a bank in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba Monday, killing four people in a gunfight and taking a hostage before killing himself, police said.

  • Iran election overseers may bar former president

    Posted on May 20, 2013 at 9:40am

    (AP) — Iran's election overseers say they will bar candidates who are physically weak from running in next month's presidential election, a clear nod toward a former president.

  • Split-second choice ended with NY student dead

    Posted on May 20, 2013 at 9:38am

    (AP) — The college student was being held in a headlock by a masked intruder with a loaded gun to her head, police said. Then the gunman took aim at an officer.

  • High court to weigh in on legislative prayers

    Posted on May 20, 2013 at 9:36am

    (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking a new case on the intersection of religion and government in a dispute over prayers used to open meetings in an upstate New York town.

  • AP Interview: Soderbergh on quitting movies

    Posted on May 20, 2013 at 9:34am

    (AP) — Steven Soderbergh is working on a new currency.

  • Yahoo takes big leap with $1.1B deal for Tumblr

    Posted on May 20, 2013 at 9:10am

    (AP) — Yahoo is buying online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 billion as CEO Marissa Mayer tries to rejuvenate an Internet icon that had fallen behind the times.

  • Tornadoes slam Plains, Midwest; 1 dead in Okla.

    Posted on May 20, 2013 at 9:08am

    Updated on May 20, 2013 at 9:14am

    (AP) — When Lindsay Carter heard on the radio that a violent storm was approaching her rural Oklahoma neighborhood, she gathered her belongings and fled. When she returned, there was little left of the community Carter had called home.

  • Wave of attacks kills at least 70 in Iraq

    Posted on May 20, 2013 at 9:08am

    (AP) — A wave of car bombs and shootings killed at least 70 people in Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq on Monday, officials said, escalating fears of a return to widespread sectarian bloodletting in the country.

  • Chesapeake names Anadarko executive as new CEO

    Posted on May 20, 2013 at 9:05am

    (AP) — Chesapeake Energy has named Anadarko Petroleum executive Robert Douglas Lawler as its new CEO.

  • Suicide bomber kills 14 at Afghan province council

    Posted on May 20, 2013 at 8:57am

    (AP) — A suicide bomber dressed in a police uniform killed 14 people including a prominent provincial council chief Monday in northern Afghanistan in an attack outside the council headquarters, authorities said. The Taliban insurgency quickly claimed responsibility.

  • Baghdad car bomb kills 13, raises death toll to 70

    Posted on May 20, 2013 at 8:52am

    (AP) — Iraqi officials say a car bomb in another Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad has killed 13 people.

  • 10 Things to Know for Today

    Posted on May 20, 2013 at 8:41am

    Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:

  • Iraqi officials say car bomb in Shiite area of Baghdad kills at least 13 civilians

    Posted on May 20, 2013 at 8:41am

    (AP) — Iraqi officials say car bomb in Shiite area of Baghdad kills at least 13 civilians.

  • Russia targets pollster for 'political activity'

    Posted on May 20, 2013 at 8:39am

    (AP) — Russia's only independent polling agency said Monday it may have to close after prosecutors targeted it for "political activity" under a law spearheading President Vladimir Putin's crackdown on civil society.