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Posted on May 20, 2013 at 2:00pm

(AP) — The State Department appointed a special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism Monday as a new report documents a global increase in incidents of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial.

Posted on May 20, 2013 at 1:57pm

(AP) — Jodi Arias' lawyers have asked to withdraw from the case and say they won't call any witnesses in the penalty phase of her trial.

Posted on May 20, 2013 at 1:53pm

(AP) — Jodi Arias' lawyers have asked to withdraw from case and say they won't call any witnesses in penalty phase of her trial.

Posted on May 20, 2013 at 1:50pm

It's a quick kiss, but it's a long step forward for openly gay character Kevin Keller in Archie Comics.

Posted on May 20, 2013 at 1:50pm

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

Posted on May 20, 2013 at 1:48pm

(AP) — A first edition copy of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" that contains author J.K. Rowling's notes and original illustrations is going on sale at a charity auction.

Posted on May 20, 2013 at 1:38pm

(AP) — Nelson Mandela, old and frail, lives in seclusion in his Johannesburg home. Beyond the high walls of the house, the fighting over his image and what he stood for has already begun.

Posted on May 20, 2013 at 1:34pm

(AP) — Foreigners leaving the country through any of the nation's 30 busiest airports would undergo mandatory fingerprinting under an amendment senators added Monday to a sweeping immigration bill.

Posted on May 20, 2013 at 1:32pm

(AP) — Actavis is buying Warner Chilcott in an all-stock deal valued at about $8.5 billion that would create the third-biggest specialty pharmaceutical company in the U.S. market.

Posted on May 20, 2013 at 1:32pm

(AP) — A leading Israeli university says it will present singer Barbra Streisand with an honorary Ph.D. when she visits Israel next month.

Posted on May 20, 2013 at 1:32pm

(AP) — Ryanair reported record profits Monday as Europe's largest budget airline expanded its route network across the continent and into North Africa.

Posted on May 20, 2013 at 1:23pm

Private equity firm Blackstone Group LP, along with Pactera's CEO and other managers, have offered to take Pactera private in a deal that values the Chinese technology consulting and outsourcing firm at $680.4 million.

Posted on May 20, 2013 at 1:20pm

(AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry headed back to the Middle East on Monday to press his case for peace talks between Syrian rebels and President Bashar Assad's regime amid increasing signs the new U.S. strategy to halt the war is being undermined by Russia.

Posted on May 20, 2013 at 1:20pm

(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.

Posted on May 20, 2013 at 1:20pm

(AP) — Russia's counterterrorism agency said Monday that its special forces killed two militants and detained a third believed to have been planning a terrorist act in Moscow.

Posted on May 20, 2013 at 1:18pm

(AP) — A national atheist group says it will place its literature in cabins and lodges in Georgia's state parks after the governor's recent decision to allow Bibles in them.

Posted on May 20, 2013 at 1:15pm

(AP) — The Justice Department's inspector general says the U.S. Attorney in Arizona violated department policy by providing Fox News with information apparently aimed at undercutting the credibility of a federal agent who helped reveal the botched arms-trafficking probe called Operation Fast and Furious.

Posted on May 20, 2013 at 1:07pm

(AP) — The Czech Republic's controversy-courting new president is under fire for refusing to grant a university professorship to one of his critics and hinting that it is because the man is a gay rights activist.

Posted on May 20, 2013 at 1:07pm

(AP) — The owner of a Los Angeles jewelry store pleaded guilty Monday for his role in an insider-trading case involving a former senior partner at accounting firm KPMG.

Posted on May 20, 2013 at 1:07pm

(AP) — Pakistan's presumptive prime minister called for peace talks with Taliban militants at war with the government Monday, potentially charting a course that could put him at odds with the country's powerful army.