WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Tuesday named veteran Secret Service agent Julia Pierson as the agency's first female director, signaling his desire to change the culture at the male-dominated ... Read more
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — James Hinchcliffe watched the 2011 season-opening race at St. Petersburg from the sidelines because he didn't have a deal yet to drive in the IndyCar Series. Out of work again at the ... Read more
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Michael Lesley crisscrossed Harvard Yard, looking up from his copy of David Hume's "The Natural History of Religion" only to avoid the tourists that shuffled through the snow-covered ... Read more
NEW YORK (AP) — The NCAA tournament's first full day has earned its highest preliminary television rating in 22 years. The games Thursday on CBS, TBS, TNT and truTV averaged a 5.8 overnight rating and 14 share. ... Read more
LONDON (AP) — Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is making her first public engagement in more than a week after cancellations following her hospitalization for a stomach bug. The British head of state is due to join ... Read more
Andy Enfield's team from Florida Gulf Coast is seeded No. 15 in the South Region, double-digit underdogs to Georgetown, certainly expected to make a one-and-done appearance in the NCAA tournament. Given all that, ... Read more
BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — Kasey Kahne won his first career Sprint Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway after Brad Keselowski struggled on the final restart. Tempers flared after the race when Joey Logano leaned ... Read more
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Shane Larkin and ninth-ranked Miami now have the program's first Atlantic Coast Conference tournament championship to go with its first regular-season title. Larkin scored a career-high ... Read more
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Breaking with tradition, Pope Francis delivered off-the-cuff remarks about God's power to forgive instead of reading from a written speech for the first Sunday window appearance of his ... Read more
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Breaking with tradition, Pope Francis delivered off-the-cuff remarks about God's power to forgive instead of reading from a written speech for the first Sunday window appearance of his ... Read more