New video shows IS beheading Goto
Hostages’ deaths have yet to be confirmed
DATE: Jan 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Japan self-censors itself in the name of ‘jishuku’
TOKYO – Images or mentions of blood, knives or ransom – or anything else that can be seen alluding to the hostage crisis involving two Japanese in Syria – have been omitted. Some anime and o...
DATE: Jan 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
After 150 years, Confederate submarine’s hull revealed
Sub was first in history to sink enemy warship
DATE: Jan 30, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
GOP race opens up, or does it?
Romney’s decision could help Bush – at least for now
DATE: Jan 30, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
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Obama seeks funding for medical research
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is calling for an investment to move away from one-size-fits-all-medicine, toward an approach that tai...
DATE: Jan 30, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Census change considered
New racial classification could help Arab-Americans
DATE: Jan 30, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
French fracture laid bare as 8-year-old praises terrorists
PARIS – It was bad enough when France learned that the minute of silence for victims of the nation’s deadliest terror attacks in decades was not respected by all students. Some children cont...
DATE: Jan 30, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Dems still miffed about Israeli leader’s address to Congress
PHILADELPHIA – House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi is still peeved over Republicans’ decision to ask the leader of Israel – an archenemy of Iran – to address Congress in March right in the ...
DATE: Jan 30, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Scientists abandon claim about the early universe
NEW YORK – Scientists who made headlines last March by announcing that they’d found long-sought evidence about the early universe are now abandoning that claim.
New data show th...
DATE: Jan 30, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
U.S. economy slowed last quarter, but signs are pointing up
WASHINGTON – The U.S. economy slowed in the final three months of 2014, but a burst in consumer spending and the prospect of continued low energy prices are bolstering confidence that growth...
DATE: Jan 30, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Former GOP nominee Romney will not run for president in ‘16
WASHINGTON – After a three-week flirtation with a new campaign for the White House, Mitt Romney announced Friday that he will not seek the presidency in 2016.
“After putting consi...
DATE: Jan 30, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
House Dems seek better messaging, not new policies, for 2016
PHILADELPHIA – Better messaging, not changes in policy, is the key to winning elections again, House Democrats said Thursday as they huddled in Philadelphia to talk strategy. And the message...
DATE: Jan 29, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
