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Unemployment bill first up in Senate for 2014

WASHINGTON – The Senate plunged into an election-year session Monday that promises to be long on political maneuvering and less so on accomplishment, beginning with a struggle over legislati...

Senate confirms Yellen to chair Federal Reserve

WASHINGTON – The Senate confirmed Janet Yellen on Monday as the first woman to lead the Federal Reserve, elevating an advocate of fighting unemployment and a backer of the central bank’s eff...

Syrian rebel in-fighting spreads in country

BEIRUT – Syrian rebels surrounded a compound held by al-Qaida-linked fighters and freed at least 50 people from a nearby prison Monday as clashes between rival factions in the country’s nort...

Girl declared brain dead moved from hospital

SAN FRANCISCO – A lawyer for the family of a 13-year-old California girl declared brain dead after a surgery said Monday that she has arrived safely at a new location but that she was in “ba...

‘Polar vortex’ Ion has arrived

Storm brings temperatures not seen in decades

Seeing AP photo reunites family with missing son

Photographer was ‘happy’ and ‘touched’

Nation/World Briefs

1 dead, 1 injured in NYC high-rise fire NEW YORK – Authorities say one person has died and another has been injured in a three-alarm high-rise apartment fire in midtown Manhattan....

Water pollution by drilling confirmed

States’ data note problems with wells

Library offers glimpse of bookless future

Texas facility is first in country to go all digital

Election politics dominates Congress

WASHINGTON – Congress returns to work today with election-year politics certain to shape an already-limited agenda. Republicans intend to focus on every facet of President Barack ...

Big money in social-media clicks

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Celebrities, businesses and even the U.S. State Department have bought bogus Facebook likes, Twitter followers or YouTube viewers from offshore “click farms,” where worker...

Midwest freeze may break records

Meteorologist: Blame dramatic winter weather on a ‘polar vortex’
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