Cyber crooks turn to health care
Anthem hacking could affect ‘tens of millions’
DATE: Feb 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Democrats attack GOP health-care plan
WASHINGTON – A plan by three Republican lawmakers for replacing President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul would leave Americans with less coverage and higher costs than the landmark law ...
DATE: Feb 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Nation & World Briefs
RadioShack files for bankruptcy
NEW YORK – A diminished RadioShack will live on, but its future may lie with Sprint.
Struggling consumer electronics chain RadioShack, ...
DATE: Feb 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Jordan launches new airstrikes after vowing harsh war on IS
AMMAN, Jordan – Dozens of Jordanian fighter jets bombed Islamic State training centers and weapons storage sites Thursday, intensifying attacks after the militants burned to death a captured...
DATE: Feb 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
France takes aim at drone threat
Companies asked to develop systems to intercept aircraft
DATE: Feb 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
GOP group to unveil health-care proposal
Plan would offer tax credits to buy insurance
DATE: Feb 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Pilot’s slaying sparks rage in Mideast
Clerics call burning of prisoner ‘foreign’ to Islam
DATE: Feb 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
World Briefs
Egyptian activists get life sentences
CAIRO – An Egyptian court sentenced 230 people, including one of the leading activists behind the country’s 2011 uprising, to life in prison ...
DATE: Feb 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Nation Briefs
Congress members urge aid to Jordan
WASHINGTON – Republicans and Democrats pressed senior Obama administration officials Wednesday to move swiftly to provide aircraft parts, night...
DATE: Feb 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
FCC chief backs ‘net neutrality’
Agency to vote on rules this month
DATE: Feb 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
California lawmakers aim to limit vaccine exemptions
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California lawmakers proposed legislation Wednesday that would require parents to vaccinate all school children unless a child’s health is in danger, joining only two ot...
DATE: Feb 3, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Obama claim of $1.8 trillion deficit cuts open to question
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s budget is relying on a series of familiar accounting tricks to show $1.8 trillion in deficit reduction over a decade, an amount that would shrink by alm...
DATE: Feb 3, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
