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Health exchanges slow to attract young, healthy

LOS ANGELES – Fears that health insurance exchanges wouldn’t attract the young, healthy people needed to make them financially viable are being heightened by the early results of signups in ...

FAA: Florida pilot says passenger fell into ocean

MIAMI – Rescue crews searched an area southeast of Miami after a pilot reported to the Federal Aviation Administration that a passenger fell out of his small plane into the ocean Thursday. ...

Many see typhoon looters as desperate, not thieves

TACLOBAN, Philippines – Armed police flown in from Manila kept their machine guns trained on six looters who lay face-down on the sidewalk. The men had been caught with stolen lap...

Government speeds research on car safety systems

WASHINGTON – The government is speeding up research on safety systems that automatically prevent drivers from operating their cars if they are drunk or aren’t buckled properly. Of...

Fed plan to bury nuke waste in Nevada drawing fire

LAS VEGAS – Federal plans to truck radioactive material from a World War II-era plant in Tennessee to Nevada for burial in the desert are rekindling a long-running battle to prevent the Silv...

More young people caring about privacy

Results of a Harris Poll released this week show 4 out of 5 people have changed the privacy settings of their social media accounts, and most have made changes in the last six months. ...

Scientists find big cat fossil

LOS ANGELES – Scientists have unearthed the oldest big cat fossil yet, suggesting the predator – similar to a snow leopard – evolved in Asia and spread out. The nearly complete sk...

Nation Briefs

FBI chief welcomes Benghazi request WASHINGTON – FBI Director James Comey told senators Thursday he is not opposed to Congress speaking with the survivors of the 2012 attack on th...

Secret Service investigating new allegations

WASHINGTON – More than 18 months after a prostitution scandal in South America rocked the Secret Service, the agency in charge of protecting the president is investigating another case of su...

Egypt welcomes Russian officials

CAIRO – In an echo of the Cold War, Egypt gave the red carpet welcome Thursday to senior Russian officials aiming to expand Moscow’s influence through military and economic cooperation with ...

Dems target tax fix

WASHINGTON – Democrats’ new mantra in budget talks is to close tax loopholes for certain businesses, investors and professionals as a way to raise more revenue to help ease autopilot spendin...

Typhoon-hit city begins burying its dead

TACLOBAN, Philippines – Workers in this typhoon-shattered city buried scores of unidentified bodies in a hillside mass burial Thursday as desperately needed aid began to reach some of the ha...