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Papers: Hoax spurred hunt

LONDON – British spies hunted in vain for the creator of a fake recording of an alleged spat between British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and U.S. President Ronald Reagan, declassified d...

World Briefs

Al-Qaida forces fight to hold Iraqi cities BAGHDAD – Two Iraqi cities that were strongholds of Sunni insurgents during the U.S. war in the country are battlegrounds once more afte...

Kerry upbeat about talks

JERUSALEM – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s closed-door diplomacy to broker peace between Israel and the Palestinians has burst into a public spat, with both sides trading blistering cr...

Second winner of $648M jackpot comes forward

SAN FRANCISCO – California’s $324 million Mega Millions jackpot winner Steve Tran had a 3 a.m. epiphany earlier this week that spurred him from sleep and had him fumbling through a pile of l...

Justice Department opposes block on contraceptive mandate

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration Friday called on Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to lift her order temporarily blocking a part of the president’s signature health-care law that r...

Adding a baby to new health law plans not easy

WASHINGTON – You were patient with the government’s kooky website, and now you have your health insurance card. That’s good, since your family is expecting a new baby. But you may...

Winter storm brings snow, kills at least 11

BOSTON – A storm dropped a blanket of light, powdery snow across the Northeast and ushered in frigid temperatures Friday that were unusual even for cities accustomed to blasts of winter weat...

Who’s at the door? Oh, it’s Gorbachev

Associated Press LONDON – In the scripted world of high-profile diplomacy, every move is planned weeks in advance, with seating charts, menus and toasts subject to careful scrutin...

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Medicaid expansion boosts ER visits SALEM, Ore. – A new study has found that previously uninsured people enrolled recently in Medicaid went to the emergency room 40 percent more f...

Female Marines get pass on new fitness standards

WASHINGTON – More than half of female Marines in boot camp can’t do three pull-ups, the minimum standard that was supposed to take effect with the new year, prompting the Marine Corps to del...

Faith in government drops

WASHINGTON – Americans enter 2014 with a profoundly negative view of their government, expressing little hope that elected officials can or will solve the nation’s biggest problems, a new po...

Strong winter storm pushes into the Northeast

BOSTON – A storm expected to bring more than a foot of snow, stiff winds and punishing cold pushed into the Northeast on Thursday, extending Christmas break for some students while posing th...
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