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Tour de force performances make ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ shine

How good is “Dallas Buyers Club”? Matthew McConaughey shed nearly 50 pounds for his role, blows the walls off of whatever boxes Hollywood has put him in and doesn’t utter a single “awright, awright, awright.”

 
UK police looking for ‘invisible handcuffs’ in slavery case

Three women who were freed from a London home were victims of “slavery in simple terms,” and were not trafficked or physically constrained, a senior police officer said Friday.

 
CDC gives self good, bad marks on 7 ‘winnable battles’

About three years ago, the nation’s top public health agency picked its battles. Now, it’s issuing its own report card on reaching those goals: Pretty good but needs improvement.

 
Police investigate assault links to brutal ‘knockout’ game

Using the term “game” is a stretch, but authorities and psychologists say some seemingly random assaults could be linked to a “knockout” game where the object is to target unsuspecting pedestrians with the intention of knocking them out cold with one punch.

 
NFL umpire suspended for ‘derogatory statement’ at Redskins player

An NFL game official was suspended Friday for one game without pay for making “a profane and derogatory statement” to a Washington Redskins player, an incident that has led to a call for NFL players to stop using the N-word on the field and in the locker room.

 
Memorials mark 50th anniversary of Kennedy assassination

From a street in downtown Dallas to the shores of Cape Cod, a somber nation paused Friday to remember John F. Kennedy 50 years after the young, handsome president was gunned down in an open-top limousine.

 
51 killed in Supermarket roof collapse in Latvia

As Latvian rescue workers searched Friday for bodies in the rubble of a supermarket collapse that killed dozens, speculation about the cause focused on a garden and a playground being installed on the grass- and gravel-covered roof.

 
Cosmic blast biggest since Big Bang; Earth never in danger

Astronomers call it the monster. It was the biggest and brightest cosmic explosion ever witnessed. Had it been closer, Earth would have been toast.

 
Man who disappeared walking dog is found

Los Angeles police say a key witness in a burglary case who vanished while walking his dog has been found.

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