COLUMBUS, Ohio – Winning another national championship has made Urban Meyer a butter man. The Ohio State University football coach and Buckeyes mascot Brutus are being honored with butter sculptures at this year’s Ohio State Fair, which opens Wednesday in Columbus. The life-size sculptures are joining the traditional butter cow …

ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey’s state-run news agency says Kurdish rebels have opened fire at a tea house in southeast Turkey, killing a police officer and a civilian, an attack that comes amid renewed violence between the government and the autonomy-seeking insurgents. Violence has flared in the past week, with Turkey …

The way people currently perceive America provides a very important backdrop to the upcoming GOP debates. Interesting to note that although we are not in any kind of a major crisis right now — a recession or major war — the majority of Americans consistently say they don’t see America …

ISLAMABAD – Pakistani authorities say the nationwide death toll from monthlong flooding has risen to 169, as rescuers use helicopters and boats to move stranded residents to higher ground. The National Disaster Management Authority says the floods, which began in early July, have affected 900,000 people in 2,495 villages across …

MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s agency for protecting bank customers says complaints about harassment by debt collectors have more than tripled, with Mexicans unhappy over late-night and early-morning phone calls dunning them for debts they often don’t even owe. Agency head Mario di Constanzo says the agency has levied about $12 …

Historian Douglas Brinkley told CBS that although President Obama worries about facing a Republican Congress, his biggest hurdle is the Supreme Court. A ruling that guts ObamaCare would ruin the president’s legacy because, Brinkley says, Obama can’t veto the court. Dont bet on that. If Dear Leader doesn’t need a …

WEST ALLIS, Wis. – High-wire daredevil Nik Wallenda has completed his longest tightrope walk ever during an appearance at the Wisconsin State Fair. TV station WTMJ reports Wallenda on Tuesday evening crossed the 1,576-foot wire that was strung more than 10 stories above the Milwaukee Mile Speedway on the fairgrounds. …

JAKARTA, Indonesia – A massive refrigerated cargo ship believed to be loaded with slave-caught fish was seized by Indonesia’s navy and brought to shore after The Associated Press informed authorities that it had entered the country’s waters, officials said Thursday. The Thai-owned Silver Sea 2 was located late Wednesday and …

MEXICO CITY – Authorities say five gunmen burst into a bar and killed a reputed drug gang boss, a reporter and four other people in Mexico’s Gulf coast state of Veracruz. The Veracruz state prosecutors’ office says the gunmen went directly for the victims, who included the local boss of …

TUNIS, Tunisia – Libya’s internationally recognized government has appealed to Arab countries to carry out airstrikes against the local Islamic State affiliate which is expanding its hold on the coastal central city of Sirte. The statement late Saturday came after the IS affiliate seized control of a new neighborhood in …