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Poll finds Obama regaining public support

WASHINGTON – As President Barack Obama begins his sixth year in office, people are largely pessimistic about the country’s direction, down on the condition of the economy and doubtful it wil...

DATE: Jan 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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GOP activists defend Christie’s leadership WASHINGTON – Chris Christie may have been nearly 200 miles away, but his struggles in New Jersey buzzed through the hallways of a Washin...

DATE: Jan 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Bombings in Egypt raise fears of Islamist violence

CAIRO - Four separate bombings rocked the Egyptian capital Friday on the eve of the third anniversary of the Arab Spring revolt, killing at least six people, injuring more than 70 and evokin...

DATE: Jan 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Mangled metal, victims’ screams mark Indiana pileup

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. – Cars were mangled, and some were burned despite the blowing snow. Other vehicles were crushed between jackknifed semi-tractors, so entwined that it was difficult to te...

DATE: Jan 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Ukraine clashes resume, fires light up night sky

KIEV, Ukraine – As riots spread from Ukraine’s embattled capital to nearly half of the country, President Viktor Yanukovych promised Friday to reshuffle his government and make other concess...

DATE: Jan 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Union membership holds steady at 11.3 percent

WASHINGTON – The nation’s union membership held steady at 11.3 percent last year, but losses among state and government workers suggest an ominous trend for the future of organized labor. ...

DATE: Jan 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Natural gas soars as cold grips homes, drillers

NEW YORK – The frigid winter of 2014 is setting the price of natural gas on fire. Friday, the price in the futures market soared past $5 per 1,000 cubic feet, up 9 percent for th...

DATE: Jan 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Internet community helps crack grandma’s code

MINNEAPOLIS – When a brain tumor took away Dorothy Holm’s ability to speak, she picked up index cards and began filling them, edge to edge, with seemingly random, indecipherable sequences of...

DATE: Jan 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Study: New Madrid fault zone alive, active

LOS ANGELES – The New Madrid fault zone in the nation’s midsection is active and could spawn future large earthquakes, scientists reported Thursday. It’s “not dead yet,” said U.S....

DATE: Jan 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Norway’s curlers get funky

So what will be the must-see moments at the Sochi Olympics? How about snowboard star Shaun White performing his latest trick – the frontside double-cork 1440? Or Evgeny Plushenko’...

DATE: Jan 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Bombings rock Egyptian capital, killing 6 people

CAIRO – A string of four bombings hit around Cairo on Friday, including a car blast that ripped through the Egyptian capital’s main security headquarters and wrecked a nearby museum of Islam...

DATE: Jan 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Former Virginia Gov. McDonnell, wife plead not guilty

RICHMOND, Va. – Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife pleaded not guilty Friday to federal charges that they traded their influence for tens of thousands of dollars in gifts and l...

DATE: Jan 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World