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Conflict in Ukraine grows hotter

SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine – Masked gunmen stormed the parliament of Ukraine’s strategic Crimea region as Russian fighter jets scrambled to patrol borders, while Ukraine’s newly formed government p...

DATE: Feb 27, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Known-planet count just keeps growing

NASA: Number nearly doubles

DATE: Feb 26, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation/World Briefs

U.S. to work against foreign anti-gay laws WASHINGTON –Troubled by an anti-gay movement in Uganda and across much of the world, the U.S. is launching a new effort to combat what S...

DATE: Feb 26, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. taking new look at terror convictions

WASHINGTON – A Brooklyn man in prison for terrorism may have a new opportunity to challenge his conviction because the government only recently told him how it obtained evidence it intended ...

DATE: Feb 26, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Russia military games draw warning from U.S.

KIEV, Ukraine – Russia ordered 150,000 troops to test their combat readiness Wednesday in a show of force that prompted a blunt warning from the United States that any military intervention ...

DATE: Feb 26, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Federal judge strikes down Texas gay marriage ban

AUSTIN, Texas – A federal judge declared a same-sex marriage ban in deeply conservative Texas unconstitutional Wednesday but will allow the nation’s second-most populous state to enforce the...

DATE: Feb 26, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Dempsey worries about effects of withdrawal talk

BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan – Depicting a grim future for Afghanistan without U.S. help, the top U.S. military officer said Wednesday that Afghanistan’s refusal to sign a security agreemen...

DATE: Feb 26, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

California ‘lifers’ leaving prison at record pace

SAN FRANCISCO – Nearly 1,400 lifers in California’s prisons have been released over the past three years in a sharp turnaround in a state where murderers and others sentenced to life with th...

DATE: Feb 25, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

GOP tax overhaul plan meeting early resistance

WASHINGTON – House Republicans haven’t even officially unveiled their massive plan to overhaul the tax code and the top Republican in the Senate is already pronouncing it dead. Se...

DATE: Feb 25, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Crimea protesters seek Russian help

SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine – Dozens of pro-Russian protesters rallied Tuesday in this Crimean Peninsula city, bitterly denouncing politicians in Kiev who are trying to form a new government, with s...

DATE: Feb 25, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Wintertime blues? You bet

DETROIT – A new winter misery index confirms what many Americans in the Midwest and East know in their all-too-chilled bones: This has been one of the harshest winters of our lifetimes. ...

DATE: Feb 25, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World/Nation Briefs

Housing chief becomes Egypt prime minister CAIRO – Egypt’s interim president chose the outgoing housing minister, a construction magnate from the era of ousted autocrat Hosni Muba...

DATE: Feb 25, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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