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Merger agreement paves way for largest airline

American, US Airways make concessions in settlement

DATE: Nov 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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...

DATE: Nov 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Typhoon-ravaged Philippines sees aid trickle in slowly

Delivering supplies is challenging

DATE: Nov 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Hawaii Senate passes gay-marriage measure

HONOLULU – The state Senate passed a bill Tuesday legalizing gay marriage, putting Hawaii a signature away from becoming a same-sex wedding destination. Gov. Neil Abercrombie, wh...

DATE: Nov 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Intelligence agency seeks upgrade for facial recognition

The U.S. intelligence community is pushing a leap forward in facial recognition software that will enable it to determine better the identity of people through a variety of photographs, vide...

DATE: Nov 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Agency: Try insurance website again

HealthCare.gov ‘getting better each week’

DATE: Nov 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Typhoon-hit victims in Philippines plead for aid

TACLOBAN, Philippines – Typhoon-ravaged Philippine islands faced an unimaginably huge relief effort that had barely begun Monday, as bloated bodies lay uncollected and uncounted in the stree...

DATE: Nov 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama pays tribute to 107-year-old WWII veteran

ARLINGTON, Va. – President Barack Obama on Monday paid tribute to those who have served in the nation’s military, including one of the nation’s oldest veterans, 107-year-old Richard Overton....

DATE: Nov 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Germany starts ID’ing Munich art found online

BERLIN – Bowing to pressure from Jewish groups and art experts, the German government made public details of paintings in a recovered trove of some 1,400 pieces of art, many of which may hav...

DATE: Nov 10, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Cuts could get painful in ’14

Second round of sequester seen as more disruptive

DATE: Nov 10, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Blame for typhoon toll assessed

WASHINGTON – Nature and man together cooked up the disaster in the Philippines. Geography, meteorology, poverty, shoddy construction, a booming population, and, to a much lesser d...

DATE: Nov 10, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation/World Briefs

Iran, U.S. trade blame over failed nuke deal DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Iran and the United States on Monday blamed each other for the failure to reach agreement on a deal to l...

DATE: Nov 10, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World