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GOP weighs undoing vets pension cuts as debt price

WASHINGTON – House Republican leaders were considering a plan Monday to reverse a recently passed cut to military pensions as the price for increasing the government’s borrowing cap. ...

Economy shows signs of slowing

Glowing predictions for ’14 fade

Experts increasingly hope for end of smoking

ATLANTA – Health officials have begun to predict the end of cigarette smoking in America. They have long wished for a cigarette-free America but shied away from calling for smokin...

Iran to address nuke concerns

Detonator drew questions from some experts

Egypt accuses group of staging attacks

CAIRO – Egyptian authorities on Sunday accused the ousted president’s Muslim Brotherhood of forming a “military wing” to stage attacks on security forces in a southern province, as months-lo...

Nation Briefs

California freeway crash leaves 6 people dead POMONA, Calif. – A wrong-way driver on a Southern California freeway was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving after causing a pr...

Fresh start for Hillary Clinton?

WASHINGTON – As Hillary Rodham Clinton mulls a second presidential bid, liberals are closely watching whether the onetime supporter of the Iraq war moves to the left or straddles the center....

World Briefs

Gunmen kill 8 at religious gathering KARACHI, Pakistan – Gunmen threw grenades at a Sufi Islamic religious gathering Sunday in the port city of Karachi and then opened fire on the...

Disabled groups press Obama on minimum wage

WASHINGTON – With President Obama expected to sign an executive order any day now to raise the minimum wage on new federal contracts, advocates for the physically and intellectually disabled...

For 2014, Democrats look to 2012, 2008

WASHINGTON – The Democrats’ plan to hold onto their narrow Senate majority goes by the name “Bannock Street project.” It runs through 10 states, includes a $60 million investment and require...

Some media reveal NSA secrets

Organizations inadvertently publish names

Nation & World Briefs

Washington Dems say they passed, fixed health-care law WASHINGTON – Hit with a multimillion-dollar barrage of televised attacks, Democrats in tough re-election races w...