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In this Wednesday, June 12, 2013 photo, brothers Jorge Tume, left, and Francis Tume are shown in Miami. Tume’s parents brought them to the U.S. from Peru on tourist visas when they were young and decided to stay, becoming unauthorized immigrants with no legal status. Now, one year after President Barack Obama announced an executive order allowing young people living in the U.S. illegally to stay and work, nearly 300,000 young adults previously living illegally in the United States have been granted permission to stay and work through the program, the most significant shift in immigration policy in recent decades. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

For young immigrants, a delayed coming of age

As a child, Jorge Tume used to sit and do homework as his parents cleaned the desks and floors of a concrete company in Miami. When he was done, he'd take out the trash and help finish cleaning. Tume's parents brought him to the U.S. from Peru with his younger ...

  • Updated: 3:39 p.m. Monday, June 17, 2013
In this May 29, 1985, photo provided by the Lake County, Ind., Police Department is Paula Cooper who was sentenced to death when she was 15 after stabbing a 78-year-old Bible school teacher 33 times during a 1985 robbery in Gary, Ind. A Department of Correction spokesman says Cooper, now 43, was released from an Indiana prison Monday, June 17, 2013. A state court overturned her death sentence in 1988. (AP Photo/Lake County Police Depatmrnt via The Indianapolis Star)

Indiana woman condemned for killing at 15 is freed

A woman who was sentenced to death at age 16 for taking part in the torture and murder of a 78-year-old bible studies teacher was released from an Indiana prison Monday after growing to middle age behind bars. Paula Cooper, whose 1986 death sentence enraged human rights activists and drew ...

  • Updated: 3:18 p.m. Monday, June 17, 2013
Dr. Anthony Atala holds the "scaffolding" for a human kidney created by a 3-D printer in a laboratory at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., on Wednesday, May 8, 2013. The university is experimenting with various ways to create replacement organs for human implantation, from altering animal parts to building them from scratch with a patient's own cells. (AP Photo/Allen Breed)

To ease shortage of organs, grow them in a lab?

By the time 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan finally got a lung transplant last week, she'd been waiting for months, and her parents had sued to give her a better shot at surgery. Her cystic fibrosis was threatening her life, and her case spurred a debate on how to allocate donor organs. ...

  • Updated: 3:01 p.m. Monday, June 17, 2013
A woman rests under an umbrella while a man walks past her near a statue known as the Monument to the Three Charters for National Reunification, which symbolizes the hope for eventual reunification of the two Koreas, in Pyongyang, North Korea, Saturday, June 15, 2013. In past years, the monument built over the road leading to South Korea has been the site of celebrations marking a joint reconciliation declaration signed by the two Koreas on June 15, 2000. This year's events were canceled after high-level talks between the Seoul and Pyongyang governments, the first in six years, were called off earlier in the week. (AP Photo/Alexander Yuan)

North Korea changes tack and tells US: Let's talk

After months of threatening to wage a nuclear war, North Korea did an about-face Sunday and issued a surprise proposal to the United States, its No. 1 enemy: Let's talk. But the invitation from North Korea's National Defense Commission, the powerful governing body led by leader Kim Jong Un, comes ...

  • Updated: 3:00 p.m. Monday, June 17, 2013

A look at who is still held at Guantanamo

President Barack Obama has appointed a new envoy to lead a renewed effort to close the detention center at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Here's a look at where things stand: — CURRENT POPULATION: The U.S. holds 166 men at the prison, down from a peak of about ...

  • Updated: 2:45 p.m. Monday, June 17, 2013
FILE - This June 9, 2013 photo provided by The Guardian newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the U.S. National Security Agency, in Hong Kong. The Guardian newspaper says that the British eavesdropping agency GCHQ repeatedly hacked into foreign diplomats' phones and emails when the U.K. hosted international conferences, even going so far as to set up a bugged Internet café in an effort to get an edge in high-stakes negotiations. The Guardian cites more than half a dozen internal government documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden as the basis for its reporting on GCHQ's intelligence operations. (AP Photo/The Guardian, File)

Report of UK hacking of diplomats angers nations

A newspaper report that British eavesdropping agency GCHQ repeatedly hacked into foreign diplomats' phones and emails has prompted an angry response from traditional rival Russia and provoked demands for an investigation from Turkey and South Africa. Although spying on diplomats is as old as diplomacy itself, the Guardian's report laid ...

  • Updated: 1:11 p.m. Monday, June 17, 2013
A wellwisher carrying get-well placard arrives at the Mediclinic Heart Hospital where former South African President Nelson Mandela is being treated in Pretoria, South Africa Sunday, June 16, 2013. South Africa's president says that Nelson Mandela is seeing sustained improvement from the recurring lung infection that is forcing him to spend a ninth day in the hospital. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Mandela's wife thanks world for 'love, generosity'

In tweets, songs, telephone calls, cards and more, messages of love have come from across South Africa and the world for 94-year-old Nelson Mandela, giving the family comfort and hope as he remains hospitalized in serious condition with a lung infection, his wife said Monday. One of Mandela's daughters, Zenani ...

  • Updated: 11:32 a.m. Monday, June 17, 2013
President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Durao Barroso, left, and President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy, arrive to address a press conference on the first day of the G8 summit at Lough Erne in Northern Ireland, Monday June 17, 2013. The G8 leaders from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, USA and UK are meeting at Lough Erne in Northern Ireland for a two day Summit, where the leaders are expected to discuss the ongoing conflict in Syria, and free-trade issues.(AP Photo / Kerim Okten)

Sweeping US-EU trade talks to start in July

A top European Union official says talks on a sweeping new free trade agreement between the EU and the US will begin next month. Jose Manuel Barroso, head of the EU's executive arm the Commission, said Monday at the G-8 summit in Northern Ireland that the deal could offer "huge ...

  • Updated: 10:51 a.m. Monday, June 17, 2013

5 things to note from Game 5 of NBA Finals

Five things to note from Game 5 of the San Antonio Spurs' win over the Miami Heat in Game 5 of the NBA Finals on Sunday night: ___ MANU THE MAN: Spurs coach Gregg Popovich told Manu Ginobili on Saturday that he would be starting Game 5. And how did ...

  • Updated: 7:57 a.m. Monday, June 17, 2013
FILE - In this March 5, 2013 file photo, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J. speaks in Washington. Menendez, on Sunday June 13, 2013 said "there'll never be a road to the White House for the Republican Party" if immigration overhaul fails to pass. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Immigration bill could decide 2016, senator says

Republicans' hopes to reclaim the White House in the 2016 elections hinge on whether they support — or sabotage — the immigration overhaul being debated in the Senate, two lawmakers who helped write the proposal warn. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on Sunday told conservatives who are trying to block the ...

  • Updated: 7:10 a.m. Monday, June 17, 2013
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