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Georgia High-wire walker sets sights on Tallulah gorge ATLANTA – Daredevil tightrope walker Nik Wallenda is setting his sights on a new goal: the nearly 1,000-foot-deep...

DATE: Feb 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Stuck in limbo

LOS ANGELES – The federal government shutdown last year delayed more than 37,000 immigration hearings by months or years for immigrants already waiting in lengthy lines to plead for asylum o...

DATE: Feb 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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North Korea rejects report as provaction UNITED NATIONS – North Korea is rejecting a U.N. commission’s report that it committed crimes against humanity, calling it an “extremely d...

DATE: Feb 21, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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Attorneys protest restrictions on client BOSTON – Lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are again asking a federal judge to lift special restrictions that ...

DATE: Feb 21, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Cellphones on planes? Not plain nor simple

WASHINGTON – It looks like the government is more conflicted about cellphones on planes than most travelers. Even as one federal agency considers allowing the calls, another now wants to mak...

DATE: Feb 21, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Got plans this weekend? Maybe not

The ragnar will be röking on Saturday when, according to some, the Viking calendar predicts the end of the world. Nordic folklore has it that after three freezing winters, when th...

DATE: Feb 21, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama seeks support for minimum wage hikes

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama promoted his effort to raise the minimum wage on Friday, declaring in a meeting with Democratic governors that higher pay is not only “good policy, it als...

DATE: Feb 21, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Ky. man going barefoot for charity in icy winter

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Walking a mile in Richard Hudgins shoes can be a painful experience in one of the harshest Southern winters in years. That’s because he’s not wearing any. ...

DATE: Feb 21, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

After chemical spill comes water-tasting contest

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Just hours away from a West Virginia city plagued for weeks by chemical-tainted, undrinkable tap water, water enthusiasts will sip municipal waters like fine wine in sea...

DATE: Feb 21, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Railroads OK agreement to boost oil transport safety

BILLINGS, Mont. – Railroads that haul volatile crude shipments have reached an agreement with U.S. transportation officials to adopt wide-ranging, voluntary safety measures after a string of...

DATE: Feb 21, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Ukraine deal not embraced by everyone

KIEV, Ukrain – In a fast-moving day that aimed to reshape Ukraine’s political destiny, protest leaders and the beleaguered president agreed Friday to form a new government and hold an early ...

DATE: Feb 21, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Study casts doubt on West’s Afghan plan

WASHINGTON – A new assessment of Afghanistan’s future says the country could revert to a terrorist haven unless U.S. and international partners underwrite a larger – and more expensive – Afg...

DATE: Feb 20, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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