NEW YORK — People heading to work were stopping at a makeshift memorial outside Harlem’s Apollo Theater, where Michael Jackson performed as a child.
The tributes were being written Friday on pieces of cardboard, and on newspapers bearing his photo.
Says one: “Moonwalk 4Eva Michael.”
Fatimah Smalls was among those paying respects. She says sharing the pain with [...]
LOS ANGELES — Farrah Fawcett, a 1970s sex symbol and TV star of “Charlie’s Angels,” spent almost three years in private fighting for her life against cancer. But shortly before her battle ended, she allowed the public an intimate and inspiring look inside.
Fawcett, 62, died Thursday morning at St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, [...]
NEW YORK — Michael Jackson didn’t want to be just a superstar. Like the Beatles, he wanted to be the biggest, the king. He wanted to topple the reigning man with the crown, Elvis.
In life and in death, there was Elvis.
“It’s just so weird. He even married Elvis’ daughter,” said author-music critic Greil Marcus, who [...]
You’ve probably heard some big numbers concerning the number of people in the country who don’t have health insurance. But who exactly are the uninsured? What’s their background, where do they live, and how many of them are children?
Curiosity about the nation’s uninsured population inspired one of the questions in this edition of “Ask AP,” [...]
LOS ANGELES — Michael Jackson, the “King of Pop” who once moonwalked above the music world, died Thursday as he prepared for a comeback bid to vanquish nightmare years of sexual scandal and financial calamity. He was 50.
Jackson died at UCLA Medical Center after being stricken at his rented home in Holmby Hills. Paramedics tried [...]
DETROIT — City Council member Monica Conyers, the wife of powerful Democratic congressman John Conyers, pleaded guilty Friday to accepting cash bribes in exchange for supporting a sludge contract with a Houston company.
Conyers, a political unknown who won her council seat in 2005 largely on her husband’s name, admitted in federal court to a single [...]
WASHINGTON — Dramatically hardening the U.S. reaction to Iran’s disputed elections and bloody aftermath, President Barack Obama condemned the violence against protesters Tuesday and lent his strongest support yet to their accusations the hardline victory was a fraud.
Obama, who has been accused by some Republicans of being too timid in his response to events in [...]
SACRAMENTO — With California slipping into a financial sinkhole, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is proposing to save more than $180 million by cutting short the sentences of thousands of immigrants in the state’s prisons and turning them over to federal authorities for deportation.
The idea faces certain hurdles — for one thing, commuting some sentences will require [...]
After a week of protests in which millions of Iranians took to the streets to object to the results of the country’s June 12 presidential election, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared on Friday that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had won the election and warned opposition leaders — led by presidential challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi [...]
While most U.S. voters still blame the Bush Administration for the nation’s economic problems, a growing number are inclined to blame President Barack Obama.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 39% of voters now say the country’s economic problems are caused more by the policies Obama has put in place. That’s a 12-point [...]
