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GOP House targets health-care law; 67 Dems join in

WASHINGTON – The Republican-led House voted overwhelmingly Friday to bolt new security requirements onto President Barack Obama’s health-care law, with 67 Democrats breaking ranks to join wi...

DATE: Jan 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Arkansas lieutenant governor says he'll resign over ethics case

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Arkansas Lt. Gov. Mark Darr said Friday he would leave office Feb. 1, giving in to pressure from Democrats and fellow Republicans who said his impeachment was inevitable...

DATE: Jan 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Congresswoman wants pensions for top brass rolled back

Pensions for three- and four-star generals and admirals should be rolled back to pre-2007 levels, before Congress approved hikes of as much as 63 percent to the retirement packages of top br...

DATE: Jan 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Deal reached on ads

Tobacco companies are a step closer today to putting out “corrective statements” about their history of defrauding the American public by hiding the dangers of smoking, according to an agree...

DATE: Jan 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. withdraws diplomat from India

NEW DELHI – The United States said Friday it was withdrawing a diplomat from India in hopes it would end a bitter dispute that started with the arrest and strip search of an Indian diplomat ...

DATE: Jan 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation/World Briefs

Weak hiring numbers surprise economists WASHINGTON – It came as a shock: U.S. employers added just 74,000 jobs in December, far fewer than anyone expected. This from an economy th...

DATE: Jan 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Renoir painting ordered to museum

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The story began with one of those improbable tales of an artistic masterpiece uncovered at a flea market. It concluded Friday, the painting still a masterpiece, but the s...

DATE: Jan 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Dial 9 before 911? Hotel death prompts petition

DALLAS – Hank Hunt’s granddaughter tried calling 911 from the East Texas hotel room where she could hear her mother dying, just as she was taught to do in an emergency. She didn’t know she h...

DATE: Jan 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Target reveals wider breach of security

NEW YORK – Fallout from Target’s pre-Christmas security breach is likely to affect the company’s sales and profits well into the new year. The company disclosed on Friday that th...

DATE: Jan 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. economy adds 74K jobs; rate falls to 6.7 percent

Economists cautioned that cold weather likely played a role in the sharp slowdown in hiring. Job gains had averaged 214,000 in the previous four months. The Labor Department said ...

DATE: Jan 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Threat remains unclear from chemical leak

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A chemical spill left the water for 300,000 people in and around West Virginia’s capital city stained blue-green and smelling like licorice, with officials saying Friday ...

DATE: Jan 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

FBI director: Snowden not a ‘hero whistle-blower’

WASHINGTON – FBI Director James Comey says he’s confused when he hears people referring to former national security contractor Edward Snowden as a “hero whistle-blower.” “I have t...

DATE: Jan 9, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World