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Report: NSA spying on online gamers

LONDON – American and British intelligence operations have been spying on gamers across the world, media outlets reported, saying that the world’s most powerful espionage agencies sent under...

DATE: Dec 9, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Central African Republic mobs launch sectarian attacks

BANGUI, Central African Republic – Dozens of young men stood waiting for storm clouds to pass, as wind stirred up swirls of red dust on the largely deserted street in Central African Republi...

DATE: Dec 9, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama heads to South Africa for Mandela memorial

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama headed to South Africa on Monday to speak at a national memorial service for anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela. He was joined on Air Force One by former ...

DATE: Dec 9, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Minus 135.8 in Antartica sets record

WASHINGTON – Feeling chilly? Here’s cold comfort: You could be in East Antarctica which new data says set a record for “soul-crushing” cold. Try 135.8 degrees Fahrenheit below zer...

DATE: Dec 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation/World Briefs

Health exchange sends unqualified to Medicaid The federal health-care exchange is incorrectly determining that some people are eligible for Medicaid when they clearly are not, lea...

DATE: Dec 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

South Africans pray for Nelson Mandela

World leaders to attend massive event at stadium

DATE: Dec 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Ukrainians hold largest demonstration since ’04

Citizens demanding president’s ouster

DATE: Dec 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

NSA isn’t the only one spying

Investigation reveals other agencies that do it

DATE: Dec 7, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Revolutionary War prison parcel transferred to Pennsylvania town

Property to be preserved, researched

DATE: Dec 7, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Green-building rater has rival from Oregon

Portland-based system takes on LEED

DATE: Dec 7, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

A year after Newtown mass shooting, rift over guns deepens

In the moment, Newtown’s children became our own. Staring at photographs of their freckled faces, hair tucked into barrettes and baseball caps, a country divided by politics, geog...

DATE: Dec 7, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World