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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

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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

Obama tells Pentagon to plan for Afghan pullout

Associated Press WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama has ordered the Pentagon to plan for a full American withdrawal from Afghanistan by the end of this year should the Afghan gov...

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

Combat anyone? Few women lining up

FORT EUSTIS, Va. – Only a small fraction of Army women say they’d like to move into one of the newly opening combat jobs, but those few who do say they want a job that takes them right into ...

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

Tribe’s lawyer: Eviction related to missing funds

A woman accused of killing four people, including three of her relatives, at a tiny American Indian tribe’s Northern California headquarters had been evicted from tribal housing because she ...

DATE: Feb 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

GOP seizes on state woes to highlight health care

WASHINGTON – House Republicans intent on highlighting the woes of President Barack Obama’s health care law need to look no further than their own back yards, some of which are traditionally ...

DATE: Feb 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation/World Briefs

Dingell won’t run again for Congress SOUTHGATE, Mich. – Rep. John Dingell, who played a key role in some of the biggest liberal legislative victories of the past 60 years, said M...

DATE: Feb 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Coast Guard struggling to stop traffickers

SAN DIEGO – While security has tightened at the U.S. border, drug smugglers are increasingly turning to the high seas. The area where boats were seized off California and the nort...

DATE: Feb 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Russia blasts new leaders in Ukraine

SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine – With Viktor Yanukovych on the run, Ukraine’s interim government drew up a warrant Monday for the fugitive president’s arrest in the killing of anti-government protester...

DATE: Feb 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nimitz’s WWII diary online

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The U.S. Naval War College has released a trove of World War II information by posting online the operational diary kept by Adm. Chester W. Nimitz during the war against J...

DATE: Feb 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Dingell, longest-serving congressman, to retire

SOUTHGATE, Mich. – Rep. John Dingell, a master legislative deal-maker and champion of the Detroit auto industry who is the longest-serving member of Congress in history, announced Monday tha...

DATE: Feb 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Hagel proposing to reshape military forces

WASHINGTON – Looking beyond America’s post-Sept. 11 wars, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel Monday proposed shrinking the Army to its smallest size in 74 years, closing bases and reshaping force...

DATE: Feb 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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