Easy feeling: Keegan Bradley sets course record with a 60 for first-round lead at Nelson
... on the floor and an open umbrella near his empty golf bag in the champions’ locker room before teeing off at the Byron Nelson Championship. Just another prank by his good friend Jason Dufner, the defending Nelson champion he played with Thursday ...

In Mexico, immigrants' relatives watch U.S. debate, and hope
TONATICO, Mexico — Armando Guadarrama was navigating his taxi through the narrow streets of this central Mexico pueblo on a recent Saturday morning, some 2,000 miles from the Beltway. But like many here, Guadarrama was up-to-the-minute with ...

Iraqis in southern city mourn 2 Shiite fighters killed in Syria
BASRA, Iraq — Hundreds of Iraqis in a southern city have attended the funeral of two Shiite fighters killed in Syria. In Basra, mourners on Friday carried the coffin of Mohammed Aboud, who they say was killed by a sniper fire near the shrine of Sayida ...

Tamerlan Tsarnaev: Not just any body
If you don't believe in souls or an afterlife, then a corpse is just a body — potentially a teaching tool, a source of life-saving organs, but little more. In 1829, taking such thinking to the extreme, a radical British pamphleteer named Peter ...

Bombs targeting Sunnis kill at least 76 in Iraq
Talal al-Zobaie, a Sunni lawmaker, called on politicians across the religious and ethnic ... Iraqis have grown used to a cycle of high-profile bombings. It was the deadliest day since Sept. 9, 2012, when 92 people were killed, according to ...

Bomb kills 28 at Sunni mosque in Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) — A bomb killed 28 people at a Sunni mosque in central Iraq, hitting worshippers as they were emerging from Friday prayers, security officials said. The attack in Baqouba comes after two days of attacks, many in Shiite districts, left over ...