A pickup truck struck and killed Richard Swanson, the Seattle man who aimed to dribble a soccer ball to Brazil and attend the World cup. He was on U.S. 101 in Lincoln City, just 250 miles south of Seattle. Read the complete article
Ariel Castro's ex-daughter-in-law never felt comfortable around the man who police say kept three young women trapped in a Cleveland home for a decade. Monica Stephens -- who was once married to Castro's son Anthony -- said she never developed a close relationship with Castro, primarily because of the stories her ex-husband and ex-mother-in-law had shared with her. Read the complete article
Moscow claims an American diplomat tried to recruit a spy for the United States, calling it a "Cold War" provocation. But the timing may indicate the allegation could be linked to fallout over Russian information-sharing about a Boston Marathon bombing suspect. Read the complete article
The admitted targeting of conservative groups applying for tax exempt status is grounds for some Internal Revenue Service employees to lose their jobs, House Speaker John Boehner said Wednesday Read the complete article
Nigeria says it is deploying troops and resources in conjunction with the country's state of emergency in three restive states. The Nigerian military is calling out a “sufficient amount of soldiers to get the job done,” said Brig. Gen. Chris Olukolade, a Defense Headquarters spokesman. Read the complete article
The Pew Global Attitudes report, titled “The New Sick Man of Europe: the European Union,” reveals deep divisions and anger over the path the European Union is following. Read the complete article
The Internet is down again in Syria, according to the Renesys Corp., an Internet monitoring company.
The company tweeted the development Wednesday as the civil war there raged on. Last week, also on Wednesday, Internet access in Syria was restored after a widespread outage that lasted more than 19 hours. Read the complete article
(CNN) -- Two bartenders have been arrested in connection with the killing of the grandson of civil rights activist Malcolm X, according to the office of the Mexico City attorney general. Read the complete article
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Shareholder advisory firm Glass Lewis wants Goldman Sachs to overhaul how it pays its top executives. Read the complete article
(CNN) -- The Justice Department secretly collected two months of telephone records for reporters and editors at The Associated Press, the news service disclosed Monday in an outraged letter to Attorney General Eric Holder. Read the complete article
