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Iran talks off to rough start

GENEVA – A new round of Iran nuclear talks began in fits and starts Wednesday, with the two sides ending a first session just minutes after it began amid warnings from Iran’s supreme leader ...

DATE: Nov 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

New plans will limit choice of doctors

WASHINGTON – After they get the website fixed, then what? Keeping your doctors and hospitals may be the next vexing challenge for Americans in the new health plans created by President Barac...

DATE: Nov 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation/World Briefs

U.S., Afghanistan agree on language for pact WASHINGTON – Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday that the U.S. and Afghanistan have agreed on the language of a bilateral sec...

DATE: Nov 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Report: Rise in health care spending lowest on record

WASHINGTON – Health-care spending since the 2010 passage of the Affordable Care Act has risen by 1.3 percent a year, the lowest rate ever recorded, and health-care inflation is the lowest it...

DATE: Nov 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Foxx says airport congestion deserves attention

WASHINGTON – Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx told a travel conference Wednesday that attention drawn to crowded airports like a story in USA TODAY could persuade the public and Congres...

DATE: Nov 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Israel, Gulf states in ‘strange alliance’ against Iran

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – When U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry made another stop in the Middle East this month, he received an expected earful over Washington’s outreach to Iran: Don’...

DATE: Nov 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama, Clinton families pay tribute to JFK

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama paid tribute Wednesday to former President John F. Kennedy’s legacy, joining former President Bill Clinton to lay a wreath at Kennedy’s grave and presenti...

DATE: Nov 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nuke troubles run deep

WASHINGTON – Trouble inside the Air Force’s nuclear missile force runs deeper and wider than officials have let on. An unpublished study for the Air Force, obtained by The Associa...

DATE: Nov 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Military maps to focus on natural disasters, analysis

Pentagon's mapping agency looking to predict disaster areas

DATE: Nov 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Israel says ‘bad’ Iran deal will bring war

Israel is urging negotiators to harden a deal with Iran over its nuclear program or risk war in the region. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was headed to Moscow today to...

DATE: Nov 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Gettysburg Address: A short speech long remembered

GETTYSBURG, Pa. – In solemnity, thousands of people gathered at a central Pennsylvania battlefield park Tuesday to honor a speech given 150 years ago that President Abraham Lincoln predicte...

DATE: Nov 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

Zimmerman’s girlfriend makes new charge SANFORD, Fla. – George Zimmerman’s girlfriend said he tried to choke her about a week ago during an altercation that was not initially rep...

DATE: Nov 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World