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U.S. seeks to pursue North Korea charges UNITED NATIONS – The United States is asking the U.N. Security Council to take action against North Korea for firing two rounds of ballis...

DATE: Mar 5, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Your old health plan is good for two years

WASHINGTON – Warding off the specter of election-year health-insurance cancellations, the Obama administration Wednesday announced a two-year extension for individual policies that don’t mee...

DATE: Mar 5, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Israel intercepts missile shipment

JERUSALEM – Israeli naval forces say a ship boarded Wednesday from Iran was heading to Gaza with advanced rockets to turn the territory into a much greater terror threat to Israel and others...

DATE: Mar 5, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

CIA looking into spying claims

WASHINGTON – The CIA is investigating whether its officers improperly monitored members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which oversees the intelligence agency, U.S. officials said Wedn...

DATE: Mar 5, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

Civil rights nominee fails to win in Senate WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s choice to lead the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division was blocked by bipartisan Senate op...

DATE: Mar 5, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Second AIDS baby may be cured

A second baby born with the AIDS virus may have had her infection put into remission and possibly cured by very early treatment – in this instance, four hours after birth. Doctors...

DATE: Mar 5, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

NASA plans search for life

WASHINGTON – NASA is plotting a daring robotic mission to Jupiter’s watery moon Europa, a place where astronomers speculate there might be some form of life. The space agency set ...

DATE: Mar 5, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Deal to end Ukraine crisis remains elusive

PARIS – The United States and Western diplomats failed to bring Russian and Ukrainian foreign ministers together Wednesday for face-to-face talks on the confrontation in Crimea, even as U.S....

DATE: Mar 5, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama touts minimum-wage hike during campaign stop

NEW BRITAIN, Conn. – Mounting a show of support from like-minded governors, President Barack Obama put a spotlight Wednesday on a minimum-wage push that Democrats hope will appeal to econom...

DATE: Mar 5, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Netanyahu to Abbas: ‘Recognize the Jewish state’

WASHINGTON – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that reassuring words from Iranian officials about not wanting nuclear weapons do not square with Tehran’s actions – and t...

DATE: Mar 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World Briefs

Free Scotland can keep pound, official says LONDON – Scotland’s pro-independence leader says a separate Scotland would not be a foreign country to England and claims U.K. Treasury...

DATE: Mar 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

El-Sissi hints at presidential run

CAIRO – Egypt’s military chief, Field Marshal Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, gave his strongest indication yet that he intends to run for president, saying Tuesday he “can’t turn his back” to publi...

DATE: Mar 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World