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Bomb hits near U.S. consulate in Afghanistan, one dead

KABUL, Afghanistan – Militants staged a suicide car bombing then engaged in a gunfight with security forces near the American consulate in the western Afghan city of Herat early Friday, offi...

Government to declassify parts of secret order

WASHINGTON – The federal government says it will declassify parts of a 2008 secret court order that required Yahoo to turn over customer data under the National Security Agency’s PRISM data-...

First lady’s push to drink more water draws criticism

A sign of our divided times: Even a first lady project encouraging people to drink more water is drawing criticism. Michelle Obama travels Thursday to Watertown, Wis. – naturally ...

Some homework required

WASHINGTON – Getting covered through President Barack Obama’s health care law might feel like a combination of doing your taxes and making a big purchase that requires research. Y...

Apes plan trips, research shows

WASHINGTON – It’s the ape equivalent of Google Maps and Facebook. The night before a big trip, Arno the orangutan plots his journey and lets others know where he is going with a long, whoopi...

Nation Briefs

Twitter files documents for initial stock offering NEW YORK – Twitter is going public. The short messaging service aptly tweeted Thursday that it has filed confidential documents ...

World Briefs

Cubans seek return of agents held by U.S. HAVANA – Cubans tied yellow ribbons to homes, trees and lampposts across the capital Thursday, in an organized mass campaign to pres...

Kerry quickly rejects Syria’s offer on arms

GENEVA – Striking a tough tone, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry opened swiftly convened talks with Russia on Syria’s chemical weapons Thursday by bluntly rejecting a Syrian pledge to begi...

U.S. women regain jobs lost in recession

WASHINGTON – U.S. women have recovered all the jobs they lost to the Great Recession. The same can’t be said for men, who remain 2.1 million jobs short. The biggest factor is tha...

Twitter says it has filed IPO documents

NEW YORK (AP) – Twitter is going public. The short messaging service says it has filed confidential documents for an initial public offering of stock. San Francisco-based Twitter ...

20 years on, Oslo Accords promise rings hollow

ABU DIS, West Bank – In 1993, the words rang hopeful and historic. Israel and the PLO agreed “it is time to put an end to decades of confrontation and conflict,” live in peaceful co-existenc...

Voyager 1 leaves the solar system

Team on Earth awaits discoveries
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