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Obama asks CEOs for help hiring long-term jobless

WASHINGTON – Confronting an economic recovery slowed by persistent joblessness, President Barack Obama on Friday won commitments from nearly 300 companies to reach out to the nearly 4 millio...

DATE: Jan 31, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama open to immigration bill without pathway to citizenship

WASHINGTON – Signaling a possible opening in the tense immigration debate, President Barack Obama indicated he may consider legislation that does not include a special pathway to citizenship...

DATE: Jan 31, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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Appeals court upholds American’s conviction FLORENCE, Italy – An appeals court in Florence on Thursday upheld the guilty verdict against U.S. student Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfri...

DATE: Jan 30, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. blasts delays by Syria

BEIRUT – The United States accused the Syrian government Thursday of using stalling tactics to delay efforts to remove and destroy chemical agents, an indication that the international commu...

DATE: Jan 30, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Ukraine debates meaning of president’s sick leave

KIEV, Ukraine – Amid the deepest turmoil since the Orange Revolution, President Viktor Yanukovych’s announcement Thursday that he was taking indefinite sick leave prompted a guessing game am...

DATE: Jan 30, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Study: 1 child per hour seriously injured by guns

Almost one child or teen an hour is injured by a firearm seriously enough to require hospitalization, a new analysis finds. Six percent of the 7,391 hospitalizations analyzed in 2009 resulte...

DATE: Jan 30, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

Small bomb explodes at Hawaii high school HILO, Hawaii – A small bomb exploded Thursday outside an auditorium at a Hawaii high school, prompting a brief campus lockdown but appare...

DATE: Jan 30, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Boston bomb suspect to face death penalty

BOSTON – Federal prosecutors Thursday announced they will seek the death penalty against 20-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the Boston Marathon bombing, accusing him of betraying his adopted c...

DATE: Jan 30, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Popular wave could lift Egypt army chief to office

CAIRO – Unknown only two years ago, the head of Egypt’s military, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, is riding on a wave of popular fervor that is almost certain to carry him to election as president. M...

DATE: Jan 29, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Justin Bieber charged with assault in Canada

TORONTO – Justin Bieber was charged Wednesday with assault for allegedly hitting a Toronto limousine driver several times in the back of the head last month, just hours after his attorney en...

DATE: Jan 29, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

Bipartisan farm bill gets approval in House WASHINGTON – After more than two years of partisan squabbles over food and farm policy, the House passed and sent to the Senate Wednesd...

DATE: Jan 29, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Some allies upset by Obama’s omissions

WASHINGTON – For some White House allies, the long list of executive actions President Barack Obama announced in his State of the Union address was marred by a few glaring omissions. ...

DATE: Jan 29, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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