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Feds balk at health application

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Federal health officials, after encouraging alternate sign-up methods amid the fumbled rollout of their online insurance website, began quietly urging counselors arou...

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

Just how happy are you?

Experts urge Uncle Sam to measure, pursue our well-being

DATE: Dec 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

After derailment, feds order changes at New York railway

NEW YORK – U.S. transportation officials ordered the Metro-North Railroad on Friday to quickly overhaul its signal system and temporarily put an extra worker in the driver’s cab on some rout...

DATE: Dec 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Jordan wins Security Council seat, replaces Saudis

UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. General Assembly elected Jordan to the Security Council on Friday to replace Saudi Arabia, which had rejected the seat in an unprecedented act to protest the counci...

DATE: Dec 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Water at Marine base linked to birth defects

RALEIGH, N.C. – A long-awaited study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a link between tainted tap water at a U.S. Marine Corps base in North Carolina and increase...

DATE: Dec 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

South Africans celebrate Mandela’s life

JOHANNESBURG – South Africans erupted in song, dance and tears Friday in public and emotional celebrations of the life of Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader who bridged this country’s...

DATE: Dec 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Ice storm snarls holiday deliveries

OKLAHOMA CITY – Whether you’re ready to ship that holiday package across the country or waiting for your next shipment of cooking grease, now’s not the best time to be in a hurry. ...

DATE: Dec 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World/Nation Briefs

Six being held in theft of radioactive material MEXICO CITY – Six people being tested for possible radiation exposure in a hospital in central Mexico are suspects in the theft of ...

DATE: Dec 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Many flee in fear to Central African Republic airport

BANGUI, Central African Republic – At first, it was just a few people running from the men with machetes and guns. Then the trickle of fear that led straight to the airport swelled into a fl...

DATE: Dec 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

AP releases dispatches for Pearl Harbor attack

EDITOR’S NOTE – On Dec. 7, 1941, Eugene Burns, AP’s chief of bureau in Honolulu, couldn’t get out the urgent news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which drew the U.S. into World War I...

DATE: Dec 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama inspired by anti-apartheid campaign

Inspired in part by the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela, a decades-long movement to withdraw U.S. investments in apartheid South Africa attracted millions of supporters – including a young st...

DATE: Dec 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Airline safety under review

WASHINGTON – Pilots are becoming so reliant on computer systems that do most of the flying in today’s airliners that on the rare occasions when something goes wrong, they’re sometimes unprep...

DATE: Dec 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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