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California considers labels on sugary drinks SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California would become the first state to require warning labels on sodas and other sugary drinks under a propos...

DATE: Feb 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Facebook gives you 50 ways to describe your gender

For those it impacts, ‘it means the world’

DATE: Feb 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. may wait for Afghan pact

WASHINGTON – The White House is dropping its insistence that Afghanistan sign a crucial security pact within “weeks,” suggesting it could be willing to wait and see whether Afghan President ...

DATE: Feb 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Egypt military chief heads to Moscow in rare visit

CAIRO – Egypt’s military chief headed to Russia Wednesday on his first trip abroad since ousting the country’s Islamist president, part of a shift to reduce reliance on the United States at ...

DATE: Feb 12, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Boy Scouts’ ranks drop after year of policy change

DALLAS – The Boy Scouts of America said Wednesday that it lost 6 percent of its membership after an often-bruising year in which it announced it would accept openly gay boys for the first ti...

DATE: Feb 12, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

US budget deficit totals $10.4 billion in January

WASHINGTON – The U.S. government’s deficit through the first four months of this budget year is down 36.6 percent from a year ago, signaling further improvement in the nation’s finances. ...

DATE: Feb 12, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Ice storm encases parts of the South

ATLANTA – Drivers got caught in monumental traffic jams and abandoned their cars Wednesday in North Carolina in a replay of what happened in Atlanta just two weeks ago, as another wintry sto...

DATE: Feb 12, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Comcast to buy Time Warner Cable for $45 billion

The deal was approved by the boards of both companies and, pending regulatory approval, is expected to close by the end of the year, the people said. The people spoke on conditio...