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This undated photo provided by Hobby Lobby Stores Inc., shows its co-founders David and Barbara Green who are asking a federal appeals court in Denver on Thursday, May 23, 2013, for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill. The Oklahoma City-based arts-and-crafts chain argues that businesses, and not just religious groups, should be allowed to seek exemptions from that part of the health law if it violates their religious beliefs. (AP Photo/Hobby Lobby)

Birth control coverage up for federal appeal

In the most prominent challenge of its kind, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. is asking a federal appeals court Thursday for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill. The Oklahoma City-based arts-and-crafts chain ...

  • Updated: 8:43 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013
Former scout maser Mark Noel, of Hanover, NH, holds up a new merit badge of inclusion during a press conference at the Equal Scouting Summit being held near where the Boy Scouts of America are holding their annual meeting Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in Grapevine, Texas. Delegates to the Boys Scouts of America meeting are expected to address a proposal to allow gay scouts into the organization. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Vote on gay Scouts comes at emotional moment

The Boy Scouts of America's national leadership will vote Thursday on whether to allow openly gay Scouts in its ranks, a critical and emotionally charged moment for one of the nation's oldest youth organizations and its millions of members. About 1,400 voting members of BSA's national council are to cast ...

  • Updated: 7:57 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013
FILE - In this Wednesday, April 28, 2010 file photo, relatives of the 26 suspected Hezbollah members, accused of plotting attacks on tourists and shipping in the Suez Canal and sending operatives and explosives to Gaza to help militant groups there, waves to prison vehicles carrying them outside Emergency State Security Court in New Cairo, Egypt. It was one of the most perplexing events of Egypt's 2011 revolution: Attacks on prisons that broke out more than 20,000 inmates, among them Hamas and Hezbollah militants and Muslim Brotherhood leaders, including the man who is now the country’s president, Mohammed Morsi. Now a court case is trying to uncover for the first time who was behind the attacks, raising political headaches for Morsi. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

2011 jail breaks become political issue in Egypt

It was one of the most perplexing events of Egypt's revolution: orchestrated attacks on prisons around the country that broke out more than 20,000 inmates while police were tied down with the massive popular protests that swept autocrat Hosni Mubarak from power. The prison breaks added to the chaos during ...

  • Updated: 11:38 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Artillery Place road is closed in Woolwich southeast London near the scene where British officials said one person has died and at least two people have been wounded in an attack on Wednesday May 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Nick Ansell/PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT

Brutal attack in London heightens terror fears

Two men with butcher knives hacked another to death Wednesday near a London military barracks and one then went on video to explain the crime — shouting political statements, gesturing with bloodied hands and waving a meat cleaver. Soon after, arriving police shot and wounded the unidentified assailants and took ...

  • Updated: 6:18 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013
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Afghans chant slogans during a demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, May, 22, 2013. More than 200 male students protested in front of Kabul University on Wednesday against a decree, which includes a ban on child marriage and forced marriage, making domestic violence a crime and saying that rape victims cannot be prosecuted for adultery.(AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)

Afghan students protest women's rights decree

Hard-line Islamist students protested in the Afghan capital demanding the repeal of a presidential decree for women's rights that they say is un-Islamic. It was the latest sign of a backlash against the legal protections passed in the 12 years since the toppling of the Taliban regime known for its ...

  • Updated: 5:35 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, speaks during a joint news conference with his Jordanian counterpart, Nasser Judeh, right, in Amman Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Secretary of State John Kerry says the United States and its Arab and European allies will step up their support for Syria’s opposition to help them “fight for the freedom of their country” if President Bashar Assad’s regime doesn’t engage in peace talks in good faith. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon)

Kerry: US, allies ready to step up aid to rebels

The U.S. and several key allies looked again Wednesday for a strategy to end Syria's civil war, their united efforts unable at the moment to stem the Assad regime's military gains and Washington still unwilling to join those providing the rebels with lethal military aid. U.S. Secretary of State John ...

  • Updated: 2:59 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013
This image made from video broadcast on Egyptian State Television shows members of the Egyptian security forces after their release by kidnappers, in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Six Egyptian policemen and a border guard kidnapped by suspected militants in the volatile Sinai Peninsula last week were freed by their captors Wednesday after successful mediation, the country's military spokesman said. (AP Photo/Egyptian State Television) EGYPT OUT

Egypt leader claims victory in captives' release

The safe release Wednesday of seven conscripts kidnapped by suspected militants in Sinai brought a victory for Egypt's Islamist president after months of criticism that his government is mismanaging the country. Seated with top military brass and senior officials, an animated Mohammed Morsi lauded the release as a show of ...

  • Updated: 1:42 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013
FILE - This undated photo combination provided by the Philadelphia Police Department shows Herbert and Catherine Schaible. Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams announced in a Wednesday, May 22, 2013 news conference that Herbert and Catherine Schaible who believe in faith healing over medicine have been charged with murder after a second child died of pneumonia. (AP Photo/Philadelphia Police Department)

Faith healers charged with murder after 2nd death

A Philadelphia couple who believe in faith healing over medicine and who were on probation in their son's pneumonia death were charged with murder Wednesday after a second young child died under what a prosecutor called "eerily similar" circumstances. Herbert and Catherine Schaible ignored a court order to seek medical ...

  • Updated: 1:21 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013
In this picture taken on Saturday, May 11, 2013, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, and his close ally Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei wave to journalists as they arrive at the election headquarters of the interior ministry for registering Masheaei's candidacy for the upcoming presidential election, in Tehran, Iran. 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 aide from the presidential race _ may be just the opening act in Ahmadinejad's reinvention as a self-styled opposition force. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iran's Ahmadinejad looks to outsider options

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 ...

  • Updated: 11:18 a.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Bahrain opposition group snubs crisis talks

Bahrain's main Shiite opposition group says it will temporarily boycott talks aimed at easing the Gulf nation's more than two-year unrest because of increased crackdowns by security forces. Wednesday's decision by Al Wefaq to shun talks for two weeks is seen as a warning to authorities over the future of ...

  • Updated: 9:56 a.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013
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