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Lawyer: Engineer in ‘daze’ before NYC train crash

YONKERS, N.Y. – An engineer whose speeding commuter train ran off the rails along a curve, killing four people, experienced a hypnotic-like “daze” and nodded at the controls before he sudde...

DATE: Dec 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation/World Briefs

Tapes show 911 efforts during school shooting HARTFORD, Conn. – As gunfire boomed over and over in the background, a janitor begged a 911 dispatcher to send help, saying, “There’s...

DATE: Dec 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Authorities find missing cobalt

MEXICO CITY – A missing shipment of radioactive cobalt-60 was found Wednesday near where the stolen truck transporting the material was abandoned in central Mexico, the country’s nuclear saf...

DATE: Dec 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Report: Cellphone tracking pervasive

NSA computer program crunches data to find patterns of relationships

DATE: Dec 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S.-China talks reach no consensus on air zone row

Associated Press BEIJING – In candid, face-to-face talks, Vice President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping traded arguments Wednesday over China’s contentious new air def...

DATE: Dec 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama targets income gap

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama prodded Congress to raise wages and secure the social safety net as he issued an overarching appeal Wednesday to correct inequalities that he said make it...

DATE: Dec 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Texas executes man for corrections officer’s death

HUNTSVILLE, Texas – A Texas inmate was executed Tuesday evening for the death of a corrections officer during a short-lived escape from prison six years ago. Jerry Martin, 43, had...

DATE: Dec 3, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

North Korea’s treatment of American veteran called ‘bizarre’

North Korea’s detention of an 85-year-old American and former Korean War veteran is playing out against a high-level shakeup Tuesday as the country’s unpredictable young leader is apparently...

DATE: Dec 3, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Judge says he broke ethics code

BILLINGS, Mont. – A Montana judge under fire for commenting that a 14-year-old rape victim appeared “older than her chronological age” said Tuesday that he deserves to be censured but not re...

DATE: Dec 3, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama’s uncle to stay in U.S.

BOSTON – President Barack Obama’s Kenyan-born uncle, who ignored a deportation order more than two decades ago, was granted permission to stay in the U.S. on Tuesday. Judge Leonar...

DATE: Dec 3, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

Group suing to give chimps human rights ALBANY, N.Y. – An animal rights group is asking New York courts to recognize scientific evidence of emotional and cognitive abilities in c...

DATE: Dec 3, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Health website worries grow

WASHINGTON – Government subsidies to help Americans buy insurance under the health-care overhaul may be vulnerable to fraud, a Treasury Department watchdog warned on Tuesday in the latest in...

DATE: Dec 3, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World