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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 ...

DATE: Feb 7, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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...

DATE: Feb 7, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation/World Briefs

Reports: NSA collects less data than thought WASHINGTON – The National Security Agency collects less than 30 percent of calling data from Americans despite the agency’s massive da...

DATE: Feb 7, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Israel ex-PM recounts 2008 talks with Palestinians

JERUSALEM – Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Friday that if talks he held with Palestinians in 2008 had produced a peace deal, it would have forced tens of thousands of Jewish ...

DATE: Feb 7, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

American jailed in N. Korea returned to work camp

SEATTLE – A U.S. citizen detained in North Korea for 15 months has been returned to a labor camp, prompting worries about his health, his sister said Friday. Kenneth Bae, who led ...

DATE: Feb 7, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Hackers may have used Pa. company to hit Target

NEW YORK – The hackers who stole millions of credit- and debit-card numbers from Target may have used a Pittsburgh-area heating and refrigeration business as the back door to get in. ...

DATE: Feb 7, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

In soaring ceremony, Olympics open in Sochi

For an evening, spectacle outshines fears of terrorism

DATE: Feb 7, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Jobless rate hits 5-year low

WASHINGTON – A second-straight month of weak job growth renewed concerns Friday that the vigor displayed by the American economy late last year may be gone, at least for the moment. ...

DATE: Feb 7, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama calls freedom of religion security issue

WASHINGTON – President Obama used the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday to declare freedom of religion a major part of American foreign policy. Saying countries that assure re...

DATE: Feb 6, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Utilities scramble to restore power

HARRISBURG, Pa. – Hundreds of thousands of people spent a second day without electricity Thursday as utility crews from as far away as Canada and Arkansas scrambled to restore power lost whe...

DATE: Feb 6, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

MLK’s children battle over his possessions ATLANTA – A generation after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, his children are fighting among themselves again, this time over t...

DATE: Feb 6, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Senate OK’s new China envoy

WASHINGTON – The Senate easily confirmed longtime Sen. Max Baucus on Thursday to become ambassador to China, handing the job to a lawmaker well-versed in U.S. trade policy but with little ex...

DATE: Feb 6, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World