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W. Va.’s coal spill not an isolated event

Power plants, mines pollute water nonstop

DATE: Jan 18, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

Pennsylvania Police: 2nd Philadelphia school suspect released PHILADELPHIA – Police charged a boy with aggravated assault and related crimes on Saturday in connection w...

DATE: Jan 18, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

New subpoenas issued in bridge scandal

TRENTON, N.J. – Twenty new subpoenas issued in a traffic jam scandal that has shaken Republican Gov. Chris Christie’s administration and threatens to undermine any presidential ambitions rea...

DATE: Jan 18, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Russians keep adoption ban

Stance only includes Americans

DATE: Jan 18, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

States’ proposals to tighten voter registration denied

WICHITA, Kan. – The U.S. Election Assistance Commission found Friday that heightened proof-of-citizenship requirements likely would hinder eligible citizens from voting in federal elections,...

DATE: Jan 18, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nuclear security in jeopardy?

Problems may be linked to Cold War era

DATE: Jan 18, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World Briefs

Inspectors arrive in Iran to monitor nuclear deal TEHRAN, Iran – A team of international inspectors arrived in Iran on Saturday ahead of the Islamic Republic opening its nuclear p...

DATE: Jan 18, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

21 killed in suicide attack on Afghan restaurant

Taliban claims responsibility for ‘revenge attack’

DATE: Jan 18, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Work starts on Mexican side of border bridge

TORNILLO, Texas – Construction workers, cranes and front-loaders have rolled into a long-empty site on the southern side of the Rio Grande River, as Mexico starts work on its part of a borde...

DATE: Jan 17, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama Calls for Overhaul of NSA’s Phone Data Collection Program

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama, declaring that advances in technology had made it harder “to both defend our nation and uphold our civil liberties,” announced carefully calculated chang...

DATE: Jan 17, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama aims for curbs on NSA power

Endorses oversight, but rejects end to phone surveillance

DATE: Jan 17, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Taliban attack Kabul eatery

KABUL, Afghanistan - The Taliban struck a restaurant popular with Westerners in downtown Kabul on Friday in what appeared to be a well-coordinated assault, with a suicide bomber clearing a p...

DATE: Jan 17, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World