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Obama struggles to save health law

Cancellations, website, support hinder president

DATE: Nov 16, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

GOP infighting fierce even in western strongholds

MONTPELIER, Idaho – Republicans have made the Mountain West a stronghold, which is why brewing party brawls in Wyoming, Idaho and Utah are bedeviling loyalists who yearn for GOP unity. ...

DATE: Nov 16, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

New Jersey City eyes eminent domain to fight foreclosure IRVINGTON, N.J. – Irvington, N.J., is moving forward with plans to become the second municipality in the nation...

DATE: Nov 16, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Egypt: Fears replace Christians’ high hopes

Copts wondering if discrimination will persist

DATE: Nov 16, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World Briefs

Clashes hit Libya after militia attack TRIPOLI, Libya – Soldiers and government-affiliated militias stormed a military base occupied by gunmen in Libya’s capital Saturday, sparkin...

DATE: Nov 16, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Newborn babies fight for life

In aftermath of typhoon, care for infants is lacking

DATE: Nov 16, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Mementoes mark awful day

Items kept 50 years take witnesses back to day JFK died

DATE: Nov 16, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Urban hens often abandoned once their egg-laying ends

DES MOINES, Iowa – Five chickens live in artist Alicia Rheal’s backyard in Madison, Wis., and when they age out of laying eggs, they may become chicken dinner. “We get egg-layers ...

DATE: Nov 16, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

House passes change to health law

Allows sale of policies short of requirements

DATE: Nov 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama relying more on immigration rule changes

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration will allow some relatives of U.S. service members living in the country illegally to stay, according to a policy directive issued Friday. The...

DATE: Nov 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Syria weapons plan set back

TIRANA, Albania – Albania, a small, impoverished Balkan nation that is one of the United States’ staunchest supporters, on Friday firmly rejected a U.S. request for it to host the destructio...

DATE: Nov 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

China eases one-child policy rules

BEIJING – China made its first major change to its “one-child policy” in nearly 30 years to grapple with a massive shift in its population toward the elderly, who cannot work and need suppor...

DATE: Nov 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World