Taliban meets Afghans
Several female lawmakers seek to bridge chasm
DATE: Jun 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Probe will give insight on Pluto’s ‘ornery teens’
Pluto, once our most distant planetary sibling in the solar system and now reclassified as one of many “dwarf” cousins, is set to get a lot less mysterious this summer. NASA’s New Horizons s...
DATE: Jun 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
World Briefs
Saddam Hussein’s envoy dies in hospital
BAGHDAD – Tariq Aziz, the debonair Iraqi diplomat who made his name by staunchly defending Saddam Hussein to the world during three wars an...
DATE: Jun 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Nation Briefs
Google to supply reports on accidents
NEW YORK – Google will release monthly reports on the performance of its self-driving cars, and it disclosed summaries of the 12 accidents t...
DATE: Jun 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Hall of fame honors six game-changers
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – The first inductees into the new World Video Game Hall of Fame include “Pong,” the game that introduced millions to electronic play, “Doom,” which triggered a debate over t...
DATE: Jun 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
U.S. employers add solid 280k jobs; rate inches up to 5.5 percent
WASHINGTON – U.S. employers added a robust 280,000 jobs in May, showing that the economy has regained momentum after starting 2015 in a deep slump.
The unemployment rate ticked u...
DATE: Jun 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Germanwings co-pilot visited several doctors
MARSEILLE, France – A state prosecutor says a co-pilot with a history of depression who crashed a Germanwings airliner into the French Alps had reached out to dozens of doctors ahead of the ...
DATE: Jun 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
China suspected in massive breach of federal personnel data
WASHINGTON – China-based hackers are suspected of breaking into the computer networks of the U.S. government personnel office and stealing identifying information of at least 4 million feder...
DATE: Jun 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Perry joins crowded presidential race
Ex-Texas governor attacks Obama’s leadership
DATE: Jun 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Nation & World Briefs
Chinese suspected in theft of U.S. data
WASHINGTON – China-based hackers are suspected of breaking into the computer networks of the U.S. government personnel office and stealing...
DATE: Jun 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
EPA downplays fracking threat
Agency finds few cases where water supplies were harmed
DATE: Jun 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
U.S. might deploy missiles in Europe to counter Russia
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration is weighing a range of aggressive responses to Russia’s alleged violation of a Cold War-era nuclear treaty, including deploying land-based missiles in E...
DATE: Jun 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
