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Gallup: Hillary Clinton, Obama again most admired

It may have been a difficult political year for President Obama, but he continues to reign as the nation’s Most Admired Man, according to the Gallup Poll. It’s not that big of a s...

DATE: Dec 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

‘Selfie,’ ‘twerk’ top school’s most annoying words list

DETROIT – A Michigan university has issued its annual list of annoying words, and those flexible enough to take selfies of themselves twerking should take note. In addition to “se...

DATE: Dec 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Scouts to open ranks to gay youth on New Year’s Day

The Boy Scouts of America will accept openly gay youths starting on New Year’s Day, a historic change that has prompted the BSA to ponder a host of potential complications – ranging from pol...

DATE: Dec 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

Feds had arrested robbery suspect PHOENIX – The Secret Service says a man suspected in bank robberies in Mississippi and Phoenix over the last week was arrested in 2010 after maki...

DATE: Dec 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World Briefs

Salvadorians flee volcanic activity SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – Authorities in El Salvador evacuated an area around the Chaparrastique volcano after the peak shot a cloud of gas a...

DATE: Dec 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Report: NSA hacking unit pursuing ‘the ungettable’

LONDON – A German magazine lifted the lid on the operations of the National Security Agency’s hacking unit Sunday, reporting that American spies intercept computer deliveries, exploit hardwa...

DATE: Dec 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Federal health market surpasses 1M signups

December surge propels participation

DATE: Dec 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Suicide bombing in Russia kills 16

Security concerns rise in lead up to Sochi Olympics

DATE: Dec 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

At least 10 killed in bus explosion Volgograd

MOSCOW – An explosion on a trolleybus in the city of Volgograd left 10 people dead Monday, a day after a suicide bombing that killed at least 17 at the city’s main railway. The ex...

DATE: Dec 28, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Sudan wary of ‘White Army’

JUBA, South Sudan – Twenty-five thousand young men who make up a tribal militia known as the “White Army” are marching toward a contested state capital in South Sudan, an official said Satur...

DATE: Dec 28, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World Briefs

Activists: Syrian airstrike kills 21 in Aleppo BEIRUT – A Syrian government airstrike hit a crowded vegetable market in a rebel-held Tariq al-Bab neighborhood of the northern city...

DATE: Dec 28, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Federal judge questions lack of fraud-related prosecutions

Why haven’t top business executives faced fraud charges for wrongdoing related to the national fiscal crisis? A senior federal judge questions whether weaknesses in the U.S. prosecutorial sy...

DATE: Dec 28, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World