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Delayed deadline a sign of desperation, critic says

Canadians, Brits still in South Sudan city U.S. evacuated

NAIROBI, Kenya – British, Canadian and Kenyan citizens are among 3,000 foreigners trapped in a South Sudan city experiencing bouts of heavy machine gun fire, one of the most violent areas of...

Target: Justice Department investigates its data breach

NEW YOR – Target Corp. said on Monday that the Department of Justice is investigating the credit- and debit-card security breach at the retailer that’s being called the second largest incide...

Judge tells California hospital to keep treating teen

OAKLAND, Calif. – With a family fighting a hospital to keep their daughter who has been declared brain dead on life support, a California judge on Monday ordered the hospital to keep treatin...

Nation/World Briefs

NASA hopes to finish repairs with spacewalk CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The Christmas Eve spacewalk planned by NASA at the International Space Station should wrap up repair work on a f...

Document: Israeli Mossad trained Mandela

Associated Press JERUSALEM – Israel’s state archives has published a 50-year-old letter from the Mossad spy agency claiming it unknowingly offered paramilitary training to a young...

Insurance shoppers get another reprieve

CHICAGO – Anticipating heavy traffic on the government’s health-care website, the Obama administration effectively extended Monday’s deadline for signing up for insurance by a day, giving Am...

Holidays will be icy, cold throughout northern U.S.

AUGUSTA, Maine – Parts of the country socked by a wild weekend storm will be covered with ice through Christmas and beyond thanks to a steady diet of freezing rain and cold temperatures. ...

Nation Briefs

U.S. a juicy target for hackers NEW YORK – The U.S. is the juiciest target for hackers hunting credit-card information, and experts say incidents like the recent data theft at Tar...

World Briefs

Apple to bring iPhone to China BEIJING – Apple says it has reached a deal to bring the iPhone to China Mobile, the world’s biggest phone carrier. The deal ends a length...

Khodorkovsky will work to free political inmates

BERLIN – Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the Russian oligarch who crossed President Vladimir Putin and ended up in jail for a decade, says he plans to devote his life to securing the freedom of the co...

Winter’s start brings snow, ice, warm air

CONCORD, N.H. – The first full day of winter brought a wild mix of weather across the East on Sunday: ice and high wind in the Great Lakes and New England areas, flooding in the South, snow ...