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CIA declassifies Camp David Accords intelligence

ATLANTA – The Central Intelligence Agency has declassified 1,400 pages of intelligence surrounding the Camp David Accords, the historic peace treaty negotiated in 1978 by then-President Jimm...

Prince Charles turning 65

LONDON – Prince Charles is readying the paperwork to claim his pension when he turns 65 today, but he still hasn’t started the job he was born to do. The eldest son of Queen Eliza...

Clinic in typhoon-hit city overrun with patients

TACLOBAN, Philippines – A run-down, single-story building with filthy floors at Tacloban’s ruined airport has become the area’s main medical center for victims of last week’s powerful typhoo...

Health-care website numbers worry Dems

WASHINGTON – Planting a paltry number on a national disappointment, the Obama administration revealed Wednesday that just 26,794 people enrolled for health insurance during the first, flawed...

GOP ready to block key Obama court nominee

WASHINGTON – Republicans seemed ready to block another of President Barack Obama’s picks for one of the nation’s top courts on Tuesday, the latest skirmish in a nominations battle that has i...

Clinton: Honor health-care pledge

Former president calls on Obama to let people keep their coverage

What does merger mean for you?

NEW YORK – American Airlines and US Airways have cleared the last major hurdle to merging, but it will be several months – if not years – before passengers see any significant impact. ...

1 World Trade Center named tallest building in the United States

NEW YORK – They set out to build the tallest skyscraper in the world – a giant that would rise a symbolic 1,776 feet from the ashes of ground zero. Those aspirations of global sup...

Nation Briefs

Senate votes to advance specialty pharmacy bill WASHINGTON – The Senate voted Tuesday to advance a bill designed to tighten government oversight of pharmacies that custom-mix pres...

World Briefs

Syrian families grieve after attack on school DAMASCUS, Syria – Families in a central neighborhood of the Syrian capital wept quietly Tuesday as they retrieved the bodies of four ...

Merger agreement paves way for largest airline

American, US Airways make concessions in settlement

Aggression urged with cholesterol

The nation’s first new guidelines in a decade for preventing heart attacks and strokes call for twice as many Americans – one-third of all adults – to consider taking cholesterol-lowering st...