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Panel calls for agency to end spying

Task force urges phone records to be destroyed

DATE: Jan 23, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Background check company hit by government complaint

WASHINGTON – The company that handled a background check on National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden allegedly defrauded the government by submitting at least 665,000 investigations th...

DATE: Jan 23, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Pop star Justin Bieber leaves jail after DUI arrest

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – A sober-looking Justin Bieber was released from jail Thursday following his arrest on charges of driving under th...

DATE: Jan 23, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Texas executes man despite opposition from Mexico

HUNTSVILLE, Texas – A Mexican national was executed Wednesday night in Texas for killing a Houston police officer, despite pleas and diplomatic pressure from the Mexican government and the U...

DATE: Jan 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama praises ‘Roe vs. Wade’

President Barack Obama has put out his annual statement on the anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, praising the 1973 Supreme Court ruling that struck down anti-abortion laws. “We reaffir...

DATE: Jan 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Panel seeks changes to make voting easier

States should make voting easier by expanding early voting, increasing online voter registration and checking their voter registration lists against those of other states, a bipartisan feder...

DATE: Jan 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. seeks new child car-seat rules

Reacting to a directive from Congress, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Wednesday that it would propose changes to a federal vehicle safety standard that would require...

DATE: Jan 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

Company confirms new leak into river CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A second chemical was released during a spill that contaminated the water supply for 300,000 West Virginians, state offic...

DATE: Jan 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama names task force to combat campus sex assaults

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama shone a light Wednesday on a college sexual assault epidemic that is often shrouded in secrecy, with victims fearing stigma, police poorly trained to inve...

DATE: Jan 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Vermont, lover of snow, jealous of storms elsewhere

BARRE, Vt. – A series of powerful winter snowstorms has given Vermont the cold shoulder. The storms have dumped a foot or more of snow on southern New England and the New York Ci...

DATE: Jan 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Lawyers: Case against ex-Va. governor no slam dunk

RICHMOND, Va. – Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife are accused of taking at least $165,000 in loans and gifts to help the chief executive of a health supplement company peddle ...

DATE: Jan 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World Briefs

Opposition demands new Ukraine elections KIEV, Ukraine – Ukrainian opposition leaders issued a stark ultimatum to President Viktor Yanukovych on Wednesday to call early elections ...

DATE: Jan 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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