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Doha and Baku cut from 2020 Olympic bid field

Doha and Baku were eliminated from the race for the 2020 Olympics on Wednesday as the IOC trimmed the field of candidates from five cities to three. Tokyo, Madrid and Istanbul made the cut as the International Olympic Committee executive board settled on a shortlist of finalists. Doha, capital of ...

Obama birth certificate OK by Arizona official

Arizona's secretary of state said Wednesday that Hawaii's official verification of President Barack Obama's birth records meets necessary requirements, meaning the president's name will appear on Arizona's ballot in the fall. The inquiry launched recently by Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett gave official weight to a long-simmering political controversy ...

Stage and screen actress Janet Carroll dead at 71

Actress Janet Carroll, who played the mother of Tom Cruise's character in the movie "Risky Business," has died. She was 71. Carroll's son, George Brown, said the actress died Tuesday in New York after a long illness. Carroll worked steadily since that breakthrough role with Cruise in 1983. Her film ...

French President, Francois Hollande, centre, reacts with Spain's Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy prior to their meeting at the Elysee Palace, Paris, Wednesday, May 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)

Pressure on EU leaders to solve Greek crisis

European Council President Herman Van Rompuy says EU leaders have agreed to promote economic growth by better mobilizing EU policies, stepping up investment and focusing on job creation. Balancing budgets and promoting growth are not contradictory, Van Rompuy said early Thursday at the end of a European Union summit meeting ...

FILE - In this May 21, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in Joplin, Mo. Obama's re-election campaign is touting new polls that show growing support for gay marriage following the president's public embrace of same-sex unions. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Obama team trumpets new polling on gay marriage

President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is beginning to express some confidence that the president's historic, yet politically risky, embrace of gay marriage may not hurt him in the November election. In a conference call announcing efforts to get gay and lesbian voters engaged in the Obama campaign, officials said poll ...

FILE - In this April 4, 1996 file photo, Ted Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, is escorted into the federal courthouse in Helena, Mont. Harvard alumni attending their 50th class reunion are getting updates on classmates _ including Kaczynski, who graduated in 1962. In an alumni directory, he lists his occupation as “prisoner” and under awards lists “eight life sentences.”(AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Unabomber submits update to Harvard alumni book

Harvard University's alumni association says it regrets including the Unabomber's references to his convictions in a directory for his 50th class reunion this week. Ted Kaczynski (kah-ZIHN'-skee) graduated in 1962 and is in prison for killing three people and injuring 23 during a nationwide bombing spree between 1978 and 1995. ...

Sprint Cup champion Rusty Wallace smiles after being elected to the NASCAR Hall of Fame, Wednesday, May 23, 2012, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)

Wallace heads Hall of Fame group

Sprint Cup champion Rusty Wallace hated running second to anyone and doesn't plan to start now that he's part of the NASCAR Hall of Fame. Wallace, the 1989 series champion who won 55 races, headed the group of five picked Wednesday as NASCAR's newest Hall of Famers. The others selected ...

Thomas, Decker building rapport with Manning

Peyton Manning's two biggest targets are a pair of promising young receivers who have already made their mark in the NFL despite spending lots of time on the sideline. Neither Demaryius Thomas nor Eric Decker has put together a complete season in the NFL — or, for that matter, a ...

FILE - In this March 9, 2012 file photo, Hewlett Packard CEO and President Meg Whitman speaks at a conference on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, Calif. Hewlett-Packard said Wednesday, May 23, 2012 that it's laying off 27,000 workers, 8 percent of its work force, as it restructures the business. The Palo Alto, Calif., company said it'll save $3 billion to $3.5 billion annually from cost cuts, including the layoffs. Hewlett-Packard Co. expects to complete the job cuts by the end of fiscal 2014. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

HP to cut 27,000 jobs to save up to $3.5B annually

Hewlett-Packard Co. is cutting 27,000 jobs in an effort to recover from management missteps that hobbled the Silicon Valley pioneer as its rivals raced ahead with more innovative products and services. The streamlining announced Wednesday represents HP's largest payroll purge in its 73-year history. The reductions will affect about 8 ...

FILE - In a Tuesday, March 27, 2012 file photo, Monsignor William Lynn leaves the Criminal Justice Center, in Philadelphia. Lynn, accused of moving predator-priests to unwitting parishes, testified Wednesday, May 23, 2012 that he had no authority to make priest transfers. Lynn says he could only remove a priest who admitted abusing a minor. Lynn says he otherwise made recommendations for the cardinal. Lynn is testifying in the ninth week of his child-endangerment and conspiracy trial. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Monsignor: Cardinal wanted accusers kept in dark

A Roman Catholic church official conceded that a 1994 list he compiled of 35 priests suspected of sexually abusing children in the Philadelphia archdiocese included some "pretty sick individuals." Monsignor William Lynn took the stand in his own defense Wednesday in a groundbreaking child-endangerment and conspiracy case. Prosecutors blame Lynn ...

Haslem suspended for Game 6 of Heat-Pacers

Udonis Haslem insists he meant no harm. The NBA deemed otherwise, and the Miami Heat will be without one of their co-captains when they try to close out the Indiana Pacers on Thursday night. Haslem was suspended for Game 6 of the Miami-Indiana Eastern Conference semifinal series, a matchup where ...

3 Doors Down guitarist Matt Roberts leaves band

3 Doors Down says on its website that founding member and guitarist Matt Roberts has left the rock band because of health problems. The statement Wednesday says Roberts has problems with blood circulation and other health issues. It calls the split amicable. Roberts grew up with bassist Todd Harrell and ...

Indiana man charged with murdering 3rd woman

An Indiana prosecutor isn't ruling out the possibility that a convicted sex offender charged in the killings of three women may have other victims, saying Wednesday the man has shown "an outrageous disregard for human life." William Clyde Gibson, who has a lengthy criminal record, was brought into Floyd Superior ...

California nuke trouble could prompt rule review

The saga of troubled tubing at California's San Onofre nuclear power plant could prompt a review of federal rules under which equipment is routinely replaced inside the nation's reactors, the country's top nuclear regulator said Wednesday. San Onofre, located on the coast between Los Angeles and San Diego, has been ...

John Edwards leaves a federal courthouse after the jury deliberated for a third day in his trial on charges of campaign corruption in Greensboro, N.C., Tuesday, May 22, 2012. Edwards has pleaded not guilty to six counts related to campaign finance violations over nearly $1 million from two wealthy donors used to help hide the Democrat's pregnant mistress as he sought the White House in 2008. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

As Edwards jury deliberates, speculation grows

John Edwards tried to make eye contact with each juror as they filed into the courtroom Wednesday before heading home after a fourth day of deliberations without a verdict in his campaign finance trial. A former trial lawyer, Edwards is familiar with the old courtroom adage that jurors who return ...

FILE - In this Dec. 4, 2007 file photo, Raffaello Follieri, then boyfriend of Anne Hathaway, attends a private dinner hosted by Domenico Dolce & Stefano Gabbana in New York. Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesman Chris Burke says Follieri is scheduled to be released Friday, May 25, 2012 from a prison in Loretto, 80 miles east of Pittsburgh. Follieri pleaded guilty to cheating investors by falsely claiming he had Vatican connections that enabled him to buy church property at a discount. He was sentenced in 2008 to 4 1/2 years in prison. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)

Anne Hathaway's ex to be released from Pa. prison

An Italian ex-boyfriend of actress Anne Hathaway is about to be released from a Pennsylvania federal prison following a real-estate scam. Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesman Chris Burke says Raffaello Follieri is scheduled to be released Friday from a prison in Loretto, 80 miles east of Pittsburgh. Follieri pleaded guilty ...

FILE - In this May 8, 2012 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks in Lansing, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

Romney promotes education agenda, defends Bain

Originally planning to focus on education, Mitt Romney instead reignited the debate over his business credentials on Wednesday, welcoming scrutiny of the private equity firm he co-founded and declaring he's a far more qualified steward of the economy than President Barack Obama. At the same time, Romney said that if ...

GI says Muslim faith motive for Ft Hood bomb plot

A Muslim U.S. soldier accused of planning to bomb Fort Hood troops says he wasn't seeking vengeance but justice for people in Iraq and Afghanistan. Army Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo is heard telling his mother during a jailhouse visit that -- quote -- "their suffering is my suffering." A recording ...

FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2009 file photo, NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith, right, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell sit at the witness table on Capitol Hill in Washington. The NFL Players Association has filed a complaint Wednesday, May 23, 2012, in federal court accusing the league of colluding to impose a secret salary cap during the uncapped 2010 season. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

NFL union files suit against league over 2010 cap

The players union claimed Wednesday that the NFL imposed a secret salary cap during the uncapped 2010 season that cost the players at least $1 billion. The complaint was filed in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, which oversees the Reggie White settlement covering NFL labor matters. But the league says ...

Salem police ID 3 girls and mother found dead

Salem police have identified three children and their mother who died in what is being called a murder-suicide in which the father also died. The children's father was found dead in a car in Cottage Grove. He has not yet been officially identified. Police say an infant girl 3 to ...