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GREENVILLE, S.C. – South Carolina schools have partially lifted a ban on junk food. State Education Superintendent Molly Spearman has lifted a complete ban on selling unhealthy snacks in schools. Some sales can take place for certain, approved fundraisers, multiple media outlets reported Sunday. The prohibition started last July under …

LONDON – Britain’s Labour Party has launched an election campaign targeting women voters but its chosen vehicle, a bright pink bus, has backfired even before it hit the road. The bus’s color has drawn scorn and ridicule, with some calling it patronizing and sexist. Critics on Twitter compared it to …

BOSTON – As a judge questioned prospective jurors Friday in the trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one woman described her struggle to try to push aside a haunting image she saw in the days after the deadly attack. “The image of him putting the backpack behind that …