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D.C. set to change pot laws

Small amounts of marijuana could be OK’d

DATE: Nov 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

JFK’s image shines on despite contradictions

BOSTON – Four days a week, David O’Donnell leads a 90-minute “Kennedy Tour” around Boston that features stops at government buildings, museums, hotels and meeting halls. Tour-goe...

DATE: Nov 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

‘God’s Army’ twins reunite

Men fought Myanmar government as children

DATE: Nov 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

In middle of Syrian war, giant Jesus statue arises

BEIRUT – Amid conflict rife with sectarianism, a giant bronze statue of Jesus has gone up on a Syrian mountain, apparently under cover of a truce among three factions in the country’s civil ...

DATE: Nov 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World Briefs

Two French journalists abducted, killed in Mali DAKAR, Senegal – Gunmen abducted and killed two French radio journalists on assignment in northern Mali on Saturday, French and Mal...

DATE: Nov 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Scientists oppose logging bills

RENO, Nev. – More than 200 biologists, ecologists and other scientists are urging Congress to defeat legislation they say would destroy critical wildlife habitat by setting aside U.S. enviro...

DATE: Nov 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Failure to pass farm bill leads to less funding for food stamps

Food stamp benefits were cut to more than 47 million Americans on Friday as a temporary boost to the federal program comes to an end without a new budget from a deadlocked Congress to replac...

DATE: Nov 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

White House: Obama never considered dumping Biden

White House spokesman Jay Carney praised Vice President Biden on Friday, seeking to knock down a report that some of President Obama’s aides may have wanted to replace him with Hillary Clint...

DATE: Nov 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Venezuela’s government seizes U.S.-owned oil rigs

CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuela has quietly seized control of two oil rigs owned by a unit of Houston-based Superior Energy Services after the company shut them down because the state oil mon...

DATE: Nov 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Iraq doesn’t get offer for new aid

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama pledged Friday to help combat an increasingly active al-Qaida in Iraq but stopped short of announcing new commitments of assistance sought by Iraqi Prime ...

DATE: Nov 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

Michigan man claims bounty on bin Laden DETROIT – A Michigan man claims he tipped federal investigators to the location of Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan eight years befo...

DATE: Nov 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Reinstatement of abortion law closes Texas clinics

HARLINGEN, Texas – In a Texas abortion clinic, about a dozen women waited Friday to see the doctor, already aware that they would not be able to end their pregnancies there. A day...

DATE: Nov 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World