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Numbers muddy discussion about NSA surveillance

WASHINGTON – Seeking to win over public trust, the Obama administration has been throwing around a lot of numbers as it tries to describe – in as much detail as possible without jeopardizing...

30 representatives call for reform to BLM horse budget

RENO, Nev. – Thirty U.S. representatives urged new U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell on Thursday to make a priority out of reforming the government’s wild horse management program and its...

Christian group apologizes to gay community

The leader of Exodus International, a Christian ministry that worked to help people repress same-sex attraction, has apologized to the gay community for inflicting “years of undue suffering....

VA shows progress on backlog

WASHINGTON – The Veterans Affairs Department is chipping away at a massive inventory of disability claims for veterans, reducing the number of claims considered backlogged by about 13 percen...

EPA won’t confirm frack-pollution tie in Wyoming

CHEYENNE, Wyo. – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday it is abandoning its longstanding plan to have independent scientists confirm or cast doubt on its finding that h...

Obama nominating Comey as FBI director

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Friday plans to nominate President George W. Bush’s former No. 2 at the Justice Department, James Comey, to lead the FBI as the agency grapples with pr...

All-women jury chosen for George Zimmerman’s trial

SANFORD, Fla. – A jury of six women was picked Thursday to decide the second-degree murder trial of George Zimmerman, a former neighborhood watch volunteer who says he fatally shot Trayvon M...

U.S. blames Apple at N.Y. trial for e-books price rise

NEW YORK – A Justice Department lawyer urged a judge Thursday to find that Apple Inc. conspired with publishers in 2010 to raise electronic book prices, while an attorney for the computer gi...

All-women jury chosen for George Zimmerman’s trial

SANFORD, Fla. – A jury of six women, five of them white and the other a minority, was picked Thursday to decide the second-degree murder trial of George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volun...

Senators announce border security compromise

WASHINGTON – White House-backed immigration legislation gained momentum in the Senate on Thursday as lawmakers closed in on a bipartisan compromise to spend tens of billions of dollars stiff...

Middle East respiratory virus spreads easily

LONDON – A mysterious new respiratory virus that originated in the Middle East spreads easily between people and appears more deadly than SARS, doctors reported Wednesday after investigating...

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Al-Qaida-linked rebels storm UN in Somalia MOGADISHU, Somalia – Seven al-Qaida-linked militants on a suicide mission attacked the U.N. compound Wednesday with a truck bomb and the...
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