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Experts who decide on food additives conflicted

How safe are the additives that make your food tastier, thicker, more vitamin-filled or less likely to spoil? It depends on how much you trust the companies that make those additives. A stud...

White House floats health-care fix for Congress

WASHINGTON – It started out a political “gotcha” – an amendment to President Barack Obama’s health care law requiring members of Congress and staffers to get the same coverage offered to uni...

Doctor who treated Kennedy relives final moments

DALLAS — Ronald Jones had just sat down to lunch in the cafeteria at Parkland Memorial Hospital when the loudspeaker began calling doctors to the emergency room – stat . He dialed...

New study suggests that bird flu can spread among humans

LONDON — Chinese scientists have found the strongest evidence yet that a new bird flu strain is sometimes able to spread from person to person, but they are emphasizing that the virus still ...

Nation Briefs

Pentagon may change plans for same-sex benefits WASHINGTON – The Pentagon is poised to extend health care, housing and other benefits to the same-sex spouses of military members b...

More Powerball players only playing when jackpots get big

DES MOINES, Iowa – The allure of capturing the $425 million Powerball jackpot had players in a buying frenzy Wednesday, further confirming a trend that lottery officials say has become the b...

Fort Hood trial: Case study of bizarre twists

FORT HOOD, Texas – A case that already had the makings of a bizarre Court TV episode – a wheelchair-bound defendant representing himself, bullet-riddled victims, First Amendment fights over ...

North Korea expanding nuclear plant, group says

VIENNA – A U.S. institute tracking North Korea’s nuclear weapons program says recent satellite photos show Pyongyang is doubling the size of its uranium-enrichment plant, jibing with the cou...

World Briefs

Diplomacy has failed, Egypt president says CAIRO — Egypt’s presidency said Wednesday that diplomatic efforts to peacefully resolve the standoff between the country’s military-back...

Obama calls off Putin summit amid Snowden tensions

LOS ANGELES – In a rare diplomatic rebuke, President Barack Obama called off an upcoming Moscow summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, sending a stern message of disappro...

Yemen raises security after exposing plots

SANAA, Yemen – Military and intelligence officials in Yemen said Wednesday they uncovered an al-Qaida plot to fire missiles at foreign embassies in the capital and to attack naval forces gua...

Obama’s snub won’t faze Russia

Confrontation could hamper other priorities for U.S., analysts say
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