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Czech, Palestinian ties sour after envoy’s death

PRAGUE – Relations between Palestinians and the Czech Republic took a nosedive Friday after residents voiced concerns over the discovery of illegal weapons at the Palestinian embassy complex...

DATE: Jan 3, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Scientists document cases of rare ‘earthquake lights’

They’ve been mistaken for UFOs or dismissed as hallucinations. Now geologists have collected a near-definitive list of a rare but fascinating phenomenon – earthquake lights. Certa...

DATE: Jan 3, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

Idaho says it will take over private prison BOISE, Idaho – Idaho will take over the operation of its largest prison from one of the nation’s biggest corrections contractors, abrup...

DATE: Jan 3, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Papers: Hoax spurred hunt

LONDON – British spies hunted in vain for the creator of a fake recording of an alleged spat between British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and U.S. President Ronald Reagan, declassified d...

DATE: Jan 3, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World Briefs

Al-Qaida forces fight to hold Iraqi cities BAGHDAD – Two Iraqi cities that were strongholds of Sunni insurgents during the U.S. war in the country are battlegrounds once more afte...

DATE: Jan 3, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Kerry upbeat about talks

JERUSALEM – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s closed-door diplomacy to broker peace between Israel and the Palestinians has burst into a public spat, with both sides trading blistering cr...

DATE: Jan 3, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Second winner of $648M jackpot comes forward

SAN FRANCISCO – California’s $324 million Mega Millions jackpot winner Steve Tran had a 3 a.m. epiphany earlier this week that spurred him from sleep and had him fumbling through a pile of l...

DATE: Jan 3, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Justice Department opposes block on contraceptive mandate

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration Friday called on Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to lift her order temporarily blocking a part of the president’s signature health-care law that r...

DATE: Jan 3, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Adding a baby to new health law plans not easy

WASHINGTON – You were patient with the government’s kooky website, and now you have your health insurance card. That’s good, since your family is expecting a new baby. But you may...

DATE: Jan 3, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Winter storm brings snow, kills at least 11

BOSTON – A storm dropped a blanket of light, powdery snow across the Northeast and ushered in frigid temperatures Friday that were unusual even for cities accustomed to blasts of winter weat...

DATE: Jan 3, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Who’s at the door? Oh, it’s Gorbachev

Associated Press LONDON – In the scripted world of high-profile diplomacy, every move is planned weeks in advance, with seating charts, menus and toasts subject to careful scrutin...

DATE: Jan 2, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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Medicaid expansion boosts ER visits SALEM, Ore. – A new study has found that previously uninsured people enrolled recently in Medicaid went to the emergency room 40 percent more f...

DATE: Jan 2, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World