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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

Unprepared: World braces for retirement crisis

Reduced benefits, poor saving habits partly to blame

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

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Health-care law kicks in on Jan. 1

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

Nation Briefs

Pennsylvania Pregnant nurse fired over refusing flu shot LANCASTER, Pa. – A pregnant woman who refused to get a flu shot because of her fear of miscarrying has been fir...

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

Diversity prompts increased racial isolation in towns

Hispanics to become largest minority in 2014

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

Egyptian rapper supports protecting women’s rights

CAIRO – As soon as the beat started, the young woman bobbed her head to the rhythm, raised her hands to get the crowd clapping and then unleashed a flood of rap lyrics tackling some of the b...

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

Nev. wants to name cove for Twain

RENO, Nev. – Nevada officials are launching a new bid to give Mark Twain recognition in the state where he assumed his pen name in 1863. The Nevada State Board on Geographic Names...

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

High stakes for jobless families

WESTMINSTER, Calif. – The end of unemployment checks for more than a million people on Saturday is driving out-of-work Americans to consider selling cars, moving and taking minimum wage work...

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

Health-care law, by the numbers

WASHINGTON – The government churns out tons of numbers, but here’s one you won’t see: 0.0002. That’s the percentage of estimated online visitors to healthcare.gov who actually signed up for ...

DATE: Dec 27, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation/World Briefs

Sexual assault reports up sharply in military WASHINGTON – The number of reported sexual assaults across the military shot up by more than 50 percent this year, an increase that ...

DATE: Dec 27, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Immigration fears spark political firestorm in United Kingdom

LONDON – They’re portrayed as pickpockets who will steal British jobs. There are predictions they will beg, the unruly young ones will stir up riots, and some will even try to sell babies. ...

DATE: Dec 27, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World