The Wire

  • Attorney: Donald Trump lied on stand

    Posted on May 22, 2013 at 2:31pm

    (AP) — The attorney for an 87-year-old woman who accuses Donald Trump of cheating her in a skyscraper condo deal told Chicago jurors on Wednesday that he was personally repulsed by the "Apprentice" star whom he said lied on the witness stand.

  • Bernanke signals Fed to maintain stimulus efforts

    Posted on May 22, 2013 at 2:27pm

    (AP) — Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress Wednesday that the U.S. job market remains weak and that it is too soon for the Federal Reserve to slow its extraordinary stimulus programs.

  • NY funeral for student accidentally shot by police

    Posted on May 22, 2013 at 2:27pm

    (AP) — They hesitated at first, but then they came from all over the church: young women in black shuffling out of the pews and down the side aisles to the altar, some of them sobbing.

  • Amid immigration reform, calls to change asylums

    Posted on May 22, 2013 at 2:26pm

    (AP) — As Congress debates legalizing about 11 million immigrants living in the U.S. illegally, immigration advocates are pushing plans they say will open the asylum process for thousands of more people who flee persecution in their home countries.

  • Cameron: 'Indications' London attack terror

    Posted on May 22, 2013 at 2:23pm

    (AP) — British Prime Minister David Cameron says there are "strong indications" that a brutal attack in London is terror-related.

  • Redford swept away in shipwreck saga 'All Is Lost'

    Posted on May 22, 2013 at 2:19pm

    (AP) — Robert Redford makes actions speak louder than words in shipwreck drama "All Is Lost."

  • Maine man appears in court in missing teen's death

    Posted on May 22, 2013 at 2:18pm

    (AP) — A 15-year-old girl found dead in woods north of Bangor knew the man charged with killing her, her best friend said, contrary to a report from her mother that she left her Glenburn home to see someone she recently met on Facebook before she disappeared.

  • Oklahoma tornado damage could top $2 billion

    Posted on May 22, 2013 at 2:17pm

    (AP) — The tornado that tore through an Oklahoma City suburb destroyed or damaged as many as 13,000 homes and may have caused $2 billion in overall damage, officials said Wednesday.

  • Iran expands nuke technology

    Posted on May 22, 2013 at 2:17pm

    (AP) — The U.N. atomic agency on Wednesday detailed rapid Iranian progress in two programs that the West fears are geared toward making nuclear weapons, saying Tehran has upgraded its uranium enrichment facilities and advanced in building a plutonium-producing reactor.

  • Cameron says strong indications that attack in London is terrorist incident

    Posted on May 22, 2013 at 2:16pm

    (AP) — Cameron says strong indications that attack in London is terrorist incident.

  • Man shot to death while questioned in Boston probe

    Posted on May 22, 2013 at 2:15pm

    (AP) — A Chechen immigrant was shot to death by authorities while being questioned in the Boston Marathon bombing investigation early Wednesday after he lunged at an FBI agent with a knife, officials said.

  • Iran's Ahmadinejad looks to outsider options

    Posted on May 22, 2013 at 2:15pm

    (AP) — By now, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is well-accustomed to enduring blows from Iran's ruling clerics as his reputation fell from favored son to political outcast. But their intended parting shot — barring his chief aid from the presidential race — may be just the opening act in Ahmadinejad's reinvention as a self-styled opposition force.

  • French President Hollande: British soldier killed in attack in London

    Posted on May 22, 2013 at 2:14pm

    (AP) — French President Hollande: British soldier killed in attack in London.

  • Israeli air force chief warns of Syrian attacks

    Posted on May 22, 2013 at 2:14pm

    (AP) — Israel's air force chief warned Wednesday that tensions with Syria could escalate into a "surprise war" and that Israel needs to be ready.

  • 12-year-old Mass. boy wins National Geographic Bee

    Posted on May 22, 2013 at 2:09pm

    (AP) — Gaining confidence as he nailed questions about obscure island chains, bodies of water, global trade and culture, 12-year-old Sathwik Karnik cruised to victory Wednesday in the 2013 National Geographic Bee.

  • Pentagon to seek new vets record system

    Posted on May 22, 2013 at 2:06pm

    (AP) — The Pentagon has decided to buy a new computerized health records system to be able to better share and merge its data with the Department of Veterans Affairs, but officials cautioned that it was part of a "long-term modernization" effort and would not help ease the current backlog in VA disability claims.

  • Police recover backpacks of 2 kidnapped Iowa girls

    Posted on May 22, 2013 at 2:05pm

    Updated on May 22, 2013 at 2:06pm

    (AP) — Investigators searching for a 15-year-old Iowa girl who was abducted this week have recovered her backpack along with one belonging to a 12-year-old who escaped from the kidnapper.

  • House preserves its own budget as others face cuts

    Posted on May 22, 2013 at 2:03pm

    (AP) — House lawmakers are moving to protect Capitol Hill's budget even as they're moving to slash other programs like education, health research, water projects and housing aid for the poor.

  • Fed weighed slowing its pace of bond purchases

    Posted on May 22, 2013 at 2:01pm

    (AP) — Several Federal Reserve policymakers this month favored slowing the Fed's efforts to maintain record-low long-term interest rates as early as summer — if the economy showed strong and sustained growth. But those officials appeared at odds over what evidence would demonstrate such gains.

  • Boy Scout leaders to vote on lifting gay ban

    Posted on May 22, 2013 at 1:58pm

    Updated on May 22, 2013 at 1:58pm

    (AP) — The Boy Scouts of America will convene a two-day meeting of 1,400 local leaders to consider changing its long-standing ban on openly gay boys in the scouting movement.