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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...

Snowden used low-cost tool to best NSA

WASHINGTON - Intelligence officials investigating how Edward J. Snowden gained access to roughly 1.7 million of the country’s most highly classified documents say they have determined he use...

Budget model uncertain for states

Health insurance marketplaces started with federal dollars

Documents reveal chaotic military sex-abuse record

Stark difference found in bases in Japan and others

Justice Dept. applies same-sex rights

WASHINGTON – In an assertion of same-sex marriage rights, Attorney General Eric Holder is applying a landmark Supreme Court ruling to the Justice Department, announcing Saturday same-sex spo...

Florida theater shooting hearing takes dramatic turn

DADE CITY, Fla. – A bail hearing for a retired Tampa police officer who fatally shot a man inside a movie theater during an argument over texting took a dramatic turn Friday: Prosecutors pla...

Inspector general focuses on coal leasing problems

BILLINGS, Mont. – Coal sales in Western states are getting more scrutiny from federal lawmakers amid new revelations Friday about officials accepting below-market bids for some coal sales a...

Japan assures US of calm response to China tension

WASHINGTON – Japan assured the U.S. Friday that it will respond calmly to actions by China that have increased tensions between the two Asian powers. As a treaty ally of Japan, th...

White House giving Boehner room on immigration

WASHINGTON – As Republican leaders dampen expectations for overhauling immigration laws this year, the White House is hoping that the GOP resistance is temporary and tactical, and it’s resis...

Johnson: Feds ‘keeping a close eye’ on Sochi security

WASHINGTON – Newly installed Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Friday that U.S. authorities are “keeping a close eye’’ on the Sochi Winter Olympics after issuing an ...

Crew, negotiators foil hijacking

ANKARA, Turkey – A Ukrainian man tried to hijack a Turkey-bound flight to Sochi, Russia, as the Winter Olympics were kicking off Friday, but the pilot tricked him and landed in Istanbul inst...