NYC Met Museum gets renowned $1B Cubist collection
New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art is getting a billion-dollar Cubist collection it says will "transform" it. The museum announced Tuesday ...
Yo-Yo Ma joins rocker to call for US arts funding
Former Guns N' Roses drummer Matt Sorum joined cellist Yo-Yo Ma on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to urge lawmakers to increase funding for the arts in a ...
David Geffen donates $25M for academy museum
Music and movie mogul David Geffen has kicked in $25 million for a film museum planned by Academy Awards overseers. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts ...
Newtown sends out the last post-shooting donations
Thousands of the toys and other gifts that poured into Newtown following the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School ended up going to children's ...
SAfrica: Balloonist flies from old Mandela jail
A man has strapped himself to large balloons filled with helium and floated from the island where Nelson Mandela was kept prisoner to the shores of ...
Help shrinks as poverty spikes in the US
Antonio Hammond is the $18,000 man. He's a success story for Catholic Charities of Baltimore, one of a multitude of organizations trying to haul ...
Paralyzed ex-athlete's foundation helping others
As he rolls through the front door of the sprawling Claremont Club fitness center and shouts a friendly hello here and there, for just a moment it's ...
Gene Simmons says music can save a child's life
Kiss frontman Gene Simmons made a surprise appearance at a Sioux Falls benefit concert Saturday, where he spoke of music's power to positively shape ...
Dufnering: A sleepy pose makes Dufner
Jason Dufner was sitting in a classroom with children for a charity event when he leaned against a wall and zoned out for a minute. That's all it took ...
Baldwin gives $2,500 to RI high school chess team
Actor Alec Baldwin has donated $2,500 to help the chess team at Central Falls High School in Rhode Island defray the cost of traveling to a national ...
Panera trying new pay-what-you-want experiment
Order a bowl of turkey chili at a St. Louis-area Panera Bread cafe and it'll cost you a penny. Or $5. Or $100. In other words, whatever you decide.
Donors give $8M for Detroit EMS units, police cars
Several businesses have pledged a total of $8 million to help cash-strapped Detroit pay for a new fleet of emergency vehicles, including 23 EMS units ...
Bennett, Belafonte, Hudson at Winehouse gala
Tony Bennett doesn't think Amy Winehouse's life was tragic. He believes the singer who died at age 27 lived a complete life because she was able to ...
Study finds nearly 2 in 3 hate crimes unreported
Despite growing awareness of hate crimes, the share of those crimes reported to police has fallen in recent years as more victims of violent attacks ...
Poll: low-wage workers, bosses at odds on training
As they struggle to get ahead, many low-wage workers are not taking advantage of job training or educational programs that could help them make the ...
Stephen King, wife pledge $3M to Maine library
Stephen King and his wife have agreed to pay $3 million to overhaul their century-old hometown library in Maine, as long as $6 million is raised from ...
Survey: Low-wage workers gloomy about future
While lower-wage American workers have accounted for the lion's share of the jobs created since the 2007-2009 Great Recession, a new survey shows that ...
Fla. politician resigns, 57 charged in scandal
Florida's lieutenant governor resigned and nearly 60 other people were charged in a scandal involving a purported veterans charity that authorities ...
57 charged in Florida gambling scandal
Florida's lieutenant governor resigned and nearly 60 other people were charged in a widening scandal of a purported veterans charity that authorities ...
Correction: Sierra Leone-Gates Fund story
In a story March 10 about Sierra Leone charging 29 people with fraud, The Associated Press erroneously identified the Global Alliance for Vaccines and ...
Money, funeral services given for Ky. fire victims
Under rainy skies on Monday, fire investigators sifted through the charred remains of a house where seven people died in a weekend fire, while offers ...
Family: Death of woman in lion cage was accident
Relatives of a 24-year-old intern killed by a lion at a California animal park said Friday they believe the facility followed safety protocols and the ...
Glaxo donates NC Wyeth painting to Philly museum
Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline PLC has donated a painting with a mysterious past to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The work by N.C. Wyeth was ...
Energy nominee favors all-of the-above approach
President Barack Obama's choice to lead the Energy Department advocates an all-of-the-above approach to energy and favors natural gas as a "bridge ...
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