Senate GOP seeks way to break gridlock
Senator offers to allow vote on Homeland Security funding
DATE: Feb 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Nation Brief
Californians to vote on plastic bag ban
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A trade group has turned in enough signatures to qualify a referendum on California’s plastic bag ban law, suspending...
DATE: Feb 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
World Briefs
Russia announces future space plans
MOSCOW – Russia’s space agency expects the International Space Station to stay in orbit through 2024 and plans to create its own space outpost ...
DATE: Feb 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
European rabbis take defense into own hands
PRAGUE – Rabbis from European countries gathered in Prague Tuesday for training in self-defense and first aid in response to a wave of attacks against Jews and a rise of anti-Semitism on the...
DATE: Feb 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Ukraine, rebels argue over withdrawal
Foreign nations meet to discuss cease-fire plan
DATE: Feb 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
VA secretary apologizes anew for misstating military service
WASHINGTON – Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald said Tuesday that integrity and character “is part of who I am” and apologized anew for erroneously claiming he served in the military...
DATE: Feb 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Progress made toward closing Guantanamo Bay
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba – Thirty-five-year-old Abdalmalik Wahab had been imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay for nearly 14 years without charge when he received some good news: The U.S. gov...
DATE: Feb 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Defense chief holds counter-IS meeting
‘This group is hardly invincible’
DATE: Feb 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
World Briefs
U.S.-Iran nuclear deal taking shape
GENEVA – Edging toward a historic compromise, the U.S. and Iran reported progress Monday on a deal that would clamp down on Tehran’s nuclear ac...
DATE: Feb 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Funds pose risk for Clinton
Foreign nations give to foundation
DATE: Feb 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
U.S. seeks stay of ruling on Obama immigration action
HOUSTON – The U.S. government asked a federal judge Monday to lift his temporary hold on President Barack Obama’s action to shield millions of immigrants from deportation.
The Jus...
DATE: Feb 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Impasse in Senate on Homeland budget bill as shutdown looms
WASHINGTON – A partial shutdown of the Homeland Security Department loomed at week’s end, but no solution was in sight as senators returned to the Capitol from a week-long recess Monday to c...
DATE: Feb 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
