Big Retailers Back Safety Accord in BangladeshSome of the world's largest retailers have agreed to a first-of-its-kind pact to improve safety at some of Bangladesh's garment factories following a building collapse that killed more than 1,100 workers in the country last month.
Gov't Probe Obtains Wide Swath of AP Phone RecordsThe Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news.
Both Sides Condemn Convicted Pa. Abortion DoctorDr. Kermit Gosnell considered himself a pioneering inner-city doctor who helped desperate women get late-term abortions, but a Philadelphia jury called him a murderer who killed three babies after they were born alive.
Angelina Jolie Says She Had Double MastectomyAngelina Jolie says that she has had a preventive double mastectomy after learning she carried a gene that made it extremely likely she would get breast cancer.
Top IRS Official Didn't Reveal Tea Party TargetingCongress was not told tea party groups were being inappropriately targeted by the Internal Revenue Service, even after acting agency Chief Steven Miller had been briefed on the matter.
AP IMPACT: Wind Farms Get Pass on Eagle DeathsIt happens about once a month here, on the barren foothills of one of America's green-energy boomtowns: A soaring golden eagle slams into a wind farm's spinning turbine and falls, mangled and lifeless, to the ground.
Police: Man, 19, Sought in N.O. Parade ShootingsNew Orleans police and federal authorities were searching early Tuesday for a young man who is suspected of opening fire at a Mother's Day parade in New Orleans, wounding 19.
Memphis Test Fraud Ringleader Gets 7 YearsA longtime Memphis educator who helped teachers cheat on certification exams over a 15 year period was sentenced Monday to seven years in federal prison.
Evers-Williams at Ole Miss: 'Soar, and be Free'Civil rights leader Myrlie Evers-Williams told graduates at the University of Mississippi on Saturday they have the power "to do what is right, to do what is just" and make the world a better place.
MC, China College Sign PartnershipMississippi College and Hubei Polytechnic University in China have agreed to faculty and student exchanges between the two institutions.
Review Chairman: Clinton Didn't Make Benghazi CallThe seasoned diplomat who penned a highly critical report on security at a U.S. outpost in Benghazi, Libya, defended his scathing assessment but absolved then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. "We knew where the responsibility rested," Thomas Pickering said Sunday.
Monday Last Day for Morning-After Pill AppealThe government is running out of time to try to halt implementation of a federal judge's ruling that would lift age restrictions for women and girls wanting to buy the morning-after pill.