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Obama to drop budget cut offer

WASHINGTON – The White House says President Barack Obama’s upcoming budget proposal will not include his past offer to accept lowered cost-of-living increases in Social Security and other be...

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

Farms dwindle in the U.S.

WASHINGTON – The number of U.S. farms is declining even as the value of their crops and livestock has increased during the past five years, a new government census of America’s agriculture s...

DATE: Feb 19, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Biden: Health care sign-ups may fall short of goal

MINNEAPOLIS – Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday it would be a good start for the federal health-care law if 5 million to 6 million people sign up by the end of March, an acknowledgemen...

DATE: Feb 19, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Keystone XL opponents win court victory

LINCOLN, Neb. – A Nebraska judge Wednesday struck down a law that allowed the Keystone XL pipeline to proceed through the state, a victory for opponents who have tried to block the project t...

DATE: Feb 19, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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California lawmakers approve drought plan SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Gov. Jerry Brown and the top Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday announced a $687 million plan to provide immediate he...

DATE: Feb 19, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. security officers found dead in Seychelles

NAIROBI, Kenya – Two American security officers have been found dead on a ship made famous when it was hijacked by Somali pirates, according to a statement by Seychelles police Wednesday. ...

DATE: Feb 19, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

FBI confirms activist was killed in South Dakota in 1973

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – The FBI says a black civil rights activist was killed during the 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee, and it suspects militant members of the American Indian Movement are res...

DATE: Feb 19, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Homeland Security warns airlines of new threat

WASHINGTON – The Homeland Security Department has warned airlines that terrorists could try to hide explosives in shoes. It’s the second time in less than three weeks that the government has...

DATE: Feb 19, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Ukraine, protesters to open talks to end latest violence

KIEV, Ukraine – Ukraine’s protest leaders and the president they aim to oust called a truce Wednesday, just hours after the military raised fears of a widespread crackdown with a vow to defe...

DATE: Feb 19, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

EU’s stance forces US executioners to improvise

BRUSSELS – There’s one big reason the United States has a dearth of execution drugs so acute that some states are considering solutions such as firing squads and gas chambers: Europe won’t a...

DATE: Feb 19, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama pushes trade during summit meeting

TOLUCA, Mexico – Pressed by North American allies on an array of politically fraught issues, President Barack Obama Wednesday vowed to press ahead with stalled efforts to expand trade agreem...

DATE: Feb 19, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Base tears down site of massacre

DALLAS – A Texas Army post has razed the building where a former psychiatrist carried out one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history, with plans to put up trees and a memorial in its pl...

DATE: Feb 18, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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