Members of NARAL Pro-Choice America protest with Etch A Sketches outside a hotel in Washington where Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney was holding a political fundraiser March 22, 2012.

The case of George Zimmerman shooting Trayvon Martin to death in Sanford, Florida, is starting to recede to the back pages of the news.

For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades of heady immigration growth that is now slowing.

A new jobs database called Jobs4TN Online helps connect job seekers with Tennessee employers.

ORLANDO, Fla. - A 911 call released on Wednesday reveals that neighbors of a Florida mother refused to let her children in their house before the mother called for them to come home, where she fatally shot all four before killing herself.

A Vallejo family expressed outrage Thursday that police shot and killed one of their dogs after it ran toward an officer coming to their home to take a report.

In a revealing new book, The Amateur , author Edward Klein interviews President Barack Obama's physician, , Dr. David Scheiner, MD, who blasts the president's health care plan and says that President Obama has an "academic detachment" that he could never break through.

It's never easy to re-enter the dating pool after years away - probably especially so if you're one of the most famous men in the world.

If you happen to be one of the biggest names in Hollywood, it wouldn't be a surprise for you to give a lavish gift to someone you love.

Is Mitt Romney an out-of-touch elitist and bully who led a rapacious business that killed common folks' jobs? That portrayal of the presumptive Republican presidential candidate is the most frequent one painted by President Barack Obama's campaign and its allies, but their line of attack has yet to hit home.

BEIJING — Blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng, who emerged at the center of a diplomatic row between the U.S. and China, left Beijing on a United Airlines flight bound for Newark, N.J., Saturday afternoon after Chinese officials and American diplomats swiftly arranged his travel out of the country for an uncertain new life in the United States.

LONDON — The Olympic flame began a 70-day journey Saturday that will end on July 27 when a final torchbearer lights a caldron at the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympic Games.

For many Britons, the torch relay is the beginning of the countdown to the Summer Games, arguably the world’s greatest sporting spectacle.

NARANGI, India — Dozens of dredging boats scour the bottom of the Vaitarna creek all day, as workers build pyramids of excavated sand in the villages along its banks. By night, thousands of trucks clog a narrow highway to deliver the sand to construction sites in the sprawling commercial hub of Mumbai nearby.

The House approved a bill Friday that would provide $642.5 billion in defense spending for the next fiscal year, despite a veto threat from the White House, which objected to a series of provisions that would limit the president’s authority and challenge administration policies.

CAIRO — Egypt’s military chiefs are expected to issue a constitutional declaration redrawing the powers of the presidency before polls open Wednesday for the country’s first presidential vote since autocratic leader Hosni Mubarak was overthrown, according to state media reports.

The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Friday he will travel to Iran over the weekend on a previously unscheduled visit to try to resolve an impasse over access to Iranian nuclear documents and scientists.

BEIRUT — More than 10,000 protesters poured onto the streets of Syria’s commercial hub, Aleppo, on Friday, a sign that a city that had remained relatively quiet as an uprising swept the country has been galvanized into activity.

ATHENS — What did Angela Merkel really say?

The Greek press buzzed late Friday when the office of freshly inaugurated Prime Minister Panagiotis Pikrammenos issued a statement saying Merkel, the German chancellor, had suggested that Greece should hold a referendum on the euro.

Daniel Manzoni holds the phone in his hand and waits for it to ring. The caller will be a talk-show host from Radio La Jefa (Boss Radio) 700 AM. He will want to hear about the annual Argentine Festival this Saturday evening in Arlington. Manzoni runs the festival as if his life depended on it — which, at a certain existential level, it does.

Last month a court in The Hague found former Liberian president Charles Taylor guilty of 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in fueling a 10-year, bloody conflict in Sierra Leone. The verdict capped a trial that itself had dragged on for years and had been punctuated by moments of sensationalism, such as Wikileaks revelations and the testimonies of supermodel Naomi Campbell and actress Mia Farrow.

The two male lions in the brush, their manes unkempt and their stomachs empty, awakened slowly as twilight descended upon the South African sky. The elder of the two, the pride’s leader, barked to his lionesses in the distance, signaling that it was time to hunt. His breath floated through the chilly air as his roar reverberated through the rails of our Jeep.

Mexico City

According to the most recent polls, 45-year-old Enrique Peña Nieto, the presidential candidate of Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), is poised to win the election on July 1. Peña Nieto’s political career began in the state of Mexico, working for the governor. In 2005, when he was 38, he won the governorship himself.