This is AP News Minute. I. The Olympic torch round looked like a game of cat and mouse, less like a celebration of the Olympic spirit. The route of the heavily guarded torch was changed in San Francisco Wednesday and the closing ceremony was moved a...
This is AP News Minute. I. The FAA says its investigating four US airlines for failing to comply with federation aviation regulations. The agency has not named the airlines but says an audit shows three of the carriers missed inspection deadlines wh...
This is AP News Minute. Top executives of the nations largest oil companies testified on the Hill Tuesday, telling Congress they know record fuel prices are hurting consumers. But this industrys high profits are not to blame. Some critics though als...
This is AP News Minute. I. The battle continues in the southern Iraq city of Basra. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has traveled to the city where Iraqi forces are fighting Shiite militiamen. Al-Maliki has ordered the fighting to stop by today,...
This is AP News Minute. I. New fighting in Basra, Iraq. Reports indicate militiamen have overrun a number of police stations and an oil pipeline has been blown up. Also today more rockets were fired into the heavily-fortified Green Zone in Bagdad. I...
This is AP News Minute. 1. People across the country marked the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.. In Atlanta , his children laid a wreath at his tomb. Many more gathered at the Memphis Hotel where he was gunned do...
This is AP News Minute. Authorities are continuing to search the polygamist compound in Texas for evidence that a teenage girl was married to a 50-year-old member of the sect. Buses filled with women and children were removed from the retreat of the...
This is AP News Minute. Officials in Texas say sexual abuse is wide spread in this polygamist compound. Court documents also charged that the girls are spiritually married off to much older men as soon as they reach puberty. Authorities began invest...