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Jim Harbaugh, who's constantly told his 49ers to get 1 mph faster each day, will drive the ceremonial pace car at Sunday's Indianapolis 500.

The number of women and girls jailed by Afghan authorities for "moral crimes" has risen by 50 percent in the last year and a half, an alarming statistic that reflects the Afghan government's need to step up efforts to protect women's rights, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.

In another sign of an economic rebound, Home Depot said that for the first time in at least four years, sales to contractors are growing faster than sales to consumers.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Relief organizations are urging people to donate cash to help with Oklahoma relief efforts.

Let the Bay Area's Super Bowl party begin.

Gary Stevens had been retired for seven years. It seemed like D. Wayne Lukas had been retired for even longer.

Vander Blue has watched his friend and mentor Wesley Matthews beat the odds to succeed in the NBA, gaining a starting role with the Portland Trail Blazers.

The United States Golf Association will conduct 15 national championships or team events this year. Only one of them is a money-maker. That, of course, would be the U.S. Open, which is returning to Merion next month after a 32-year absence.

Cuba's communist government eased controls on religious activities in the past year but overall maintained "significant restrictions" on freedom of religion on the island, according to a U.S. State Department report.

When $50 billion in disaster aid for victims of Superstorm Sandy came before Congress this year, three of Oklahoma's five representatives and both of its senators were among the "no" votes.

Mario Silva, the Venezuelan host of the pro-government "La Hojilla" television show, announced he was stepping down from the program for health reasons, hours after a tape emerged in which he allegedly told a Cuban intelligence official about divisions and corruption within the administration.

State and local officials vowed to rebuild this bereft suburb, shattered by a tornado that brought death and massive destruction, even as they fought poor weather to push ahead with rescue efforts.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - PayPal is doubling down on efforts to bring the mobile payment platform to brick-and-mortar stores and restaurants, offering new pay-from-your-smartphone services that threaten to make the physical wallet obsolete.

Nearly 1 billion of Earth's 7 billion humans are already chronically hungry, and there will likely be an additional 2 billion mouths to feed by 2050. But rather than doubling down on traditional efforts to fight hunger, a new United Nations report suggests a more avant-garde approach to feed the world: less beef, more beetles.

President Obama on Tuesday assured the survivors of Oklahoma's deadly tornado that the nation is "there for them" and that the government will keep its focus on the rescue effort as long as is needed.

As humans scour the Earth for energy, venturing farther offshore and deeper underground, a new study suggests the answer has been under our noses all along. Rather than chasing finite fossils like oil and coal, it focuses on Earth's original power plants: plants.

A vicious and viral infection has spread throughout America. Overgrown vegetation has begun to seep through the cracks and spaces of brick and mortar. The world is at an end at the hands of this voracious disease and the key to its salvation may lie with one girl. Her name is Ellie. In "The Last Of Us," you play as Joel, a man with a sordid past tasked with transporting Ellie to a resistance group known as the Fireflies. GamerHub.TV was able to spend some time with "The Last Of Us" as Joel attempted to transport Ellie through Lincoln, Pa., in search of an old friend.

You know how it is when you leave the office for a long weekend, or for a week's vacation, and sometimes you feel lost when you return, because life went on while you were away and maybe you weren't part of it? Or how, when you leave one job to take another, and then you find yourself in the same general area, even the same building, as your former job, it seems strange because somewhere in your mind, it seems like your leaving should have meant the end of that office as you knew it?

A lawyer for Michael Jackson's family said family members offered to settle their wrongful-death suit against concert promoter Anschutz Entertainment Group, but that they never got an answer.

A crew of Mongolian gerbils may have gone where no Mongolian gerbil has gone before, but they did not come back alive. A Russian spacecraft filled with mice, lizards and other animals has returned to Earth - but with the majority of its furred passengers apparently dead.

Syria said Tuesday that its forces had destroyed an Israeli vehicle that crossed into Syrian territory from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, an account disputed by Israel, which said that shots were fired at a patrol inside Israeli-controlled territory.

On a recent college tour with my teenage son, a professor at a Florida university gave him pointed advice: "Don't expect to get a job at a company. You're going to need to be an entrepreneur." It caught me off guard, but my son didn't react. He took it as a given.

It's warm, the sun has returned and we're heading into the lazy weekends of summer, which means it's time to move the party outdoors.

This time of year, you likely know at least one young person getting ready to tune into "Pomp and Circumstance" - or perhaps one who recently has tossed that mortarboard in the air.

Who cares if the official start of summer isn't until June? For us, Memorial Day means sunny fun in the park, back yard barbecues, swimming pool openings and self-tanner season has begun. And, we're gonna need some new clothes for all that fun.

FAB FIND: PETITE PLATES POLICE PORTIONS

When Los Angeles interior decorator Brittany Stiles set about remodeling her client's kitchen, she had to stay within the 300-square-foot footprint. But big ideas went a long way to make the small space feel spacious. Here are the ingredients she used to create a coastal modern kitchen.

There's no shortage of advice during this commencement season, as half the world - including Vera Wang, Oprah Winfrey, Bill Clinton, Kerry Washington, Ed Helms, Stephen Colbert, President Barack Obama, Carson Kressley (!), Darius Rucker and more - seems to be giving speeches.

BLUEBERRY POMEGRANATE SMOOTHIES FOR A BUCK AT MCDONALD'S

This summer, two beloved American pastimes and traditions come together when the 436-passenger American Queen hosts some of Major League Baseball's legends. MLB prankster Jay Johnstone, lefty pitcher Fritz Peterson, New York Yankee Ron Blomberg and 1969 World Champion Art Shamsky will bring their stories to the only authentic overnight paddlewheel steamboat in the country.