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House OK’s budget proposal

WASHINGTON – Battle-fatigued and suddenly bipartisan, the House voted Thursday night to ease across-the-board federal spending cuts and prevent future government shutdowns, acting after Spea...

DATE: Dec 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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Regulators shut down unsafe bus companies LOS ANGELES – Federal bus safety regulators have shut down 52 companies in what they describe as a major nationwide crackdown on unsafe o...

DATE: Dec 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Interpreter is schizophrenic

JOHANNESBURG – The sign language interpreter at Nelson Mandela’s memorial says he suffers from schizophrenia and hallucinated and saw angels while gesturing incoherently just 3 feet away fro...

DATE: Dec 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Astronomers declare comet dead

WASHINGTON – Comet ISON, once optimistically called the comet of the century, is dead, the victim of a way-too-close brush with the sun. It was barely a year old. The comet, whic...

DATE: Dec 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Federal agency shuts 52 unsafe bus companies

LOS ANGELES – Federal bus safety regulators have shut down 52 companies in what they describe as a major nationwide crackdown on unsafe outfits, including lines whose drivers had suspended l...

DATE: Dec 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

FCC: Lift ban on in-flight calls. DOT: Not so fast

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Thomas Wheeler told members of Congress Thursday there is no longer any technical reason to ban calls on planes. He called rescinding the existing ...

DATE: Dec 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Senate poised for talkathon over Obama nominees

WASHINGTON – The Senate began an around-the-clock talkathon Wednesday over some of President Barack Obama’s nominees as embittered and outnumbered Republicans refused to let the Senate take ...

DATE: Dec 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Cooling pump on space station shuts down

WASHINGTON – NASA said Wednesday it was looking into a problem with a malfunctioning cooling pump on the International Space Station, but there was no immediate danger to the six crewmen on ...

DATE: Dec 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Russia may answer conventional attack with nuclear weapons

MOSCOW – Russia reserves the right to use nuclear weapons in response to a conventional strike and sees them as a “great equalizer” reducing the likelihood of aggression, a senior Russian of...

DATE: Dec 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

Time magazine picks pope as Person of Year NEW YORK – Time magazine selected Pope Francis as its Person of the Year on Wednesday, saying the Catholic Church’s new leader has chang...

DATE: Dec 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World Briefs

U.S., Britain to stop aid to Syria rebels forces BEIRUT – The U.S. and Britain said Wednesday they were suspending deliveries to rebels in northern Syria of nonlethal aid such as ...

DATE: Dec 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Health-care signups still lagging

WASHINGTON – With time running short, the nation’s health-care rolls still aren’t filling up fast enough. New sign-up numbers Wednesday showed progress for President Barack Obama’...

DATE: Dec 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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