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Report: Uneven training for US building guards

WASHINGTON – Contract guards who protect federal buildings have received uneven and inconsistent training on responding to shootings like the one last month at the Washington Navy Yard, acco...

DATE: Oct 30, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

For Obama, risks and rewards in knowing too much

WASHINGTON – Confronted with missteps in his own administration, President Barack Obama has frequently pleaded ignorance – suggesting he could not be at fault about things he did not know. ...

DATE: Oct 30, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation/World Briefs

Federal Reserve says it will continue stimulus WASHINGTON – The Federal Reserve says the U.S. economy still needs support from the Fed’s low interest-rate policies because it is g...

DATE: Oct 30, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Report lowers toll of attacks

ISLAMABAD – The Pakistani government said Wednesday that 3 percent of 2,227 people killed in U.S. drone strikes since 2008 were civilians, a surprisingly low figure that sparked criticism fr...

DATE: Oct 30, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

More NSA claims emerge

WASHINGTON – The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, The Washington Post reported Wed...

DATE: Oct 30, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Dark matter search is coming up empty

The former Homestake Gold Mine in Lead, S.D., has a hallowed place in the history of physics as a spot where nothing happens. It was here, in the 1970s, that Raymond Davis Jr. tri...

DATE: Oct 30, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Sebelius assures panel about website’s security

WASHINGTON – Defending President Barack Obama’s much-maligned health-care overhaul in Congress, his top health official was confronted Wednesday with a government memo raising new security c...

DATE: Oct 30, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

EU spying backlash threatens billions in US trade

BRUSSELS – The backlash in Europe over U.S. spying is threatening an agreement that generates tens of billions of dollars in trans-Atlantic business every year – and negotiations on another ...

DATE: Oct 30, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Group seeks immigration bill

WASHINGTON - For the business group from Utah, the lobbying blitz started well before their plane touched down in the nation’s capital. Heading to Washington to spend Tuesday urgi...

DATE: Oct 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Museums find likely Nazi-looted artworks

AMSTERDAM – A major investigation into whether art hanging in Dutch museums may have once been Nazi loot has yielded an unexpectedly large result: 139 suspect works, including ones by master...

DATE: Oct 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World Briefs

Palestinian prisoners free as part of deal RAMALLAH, West Bank – Israel freed 26 Palestinian prisoners early Wednesday, the second of four batches to be released as part of a de...

DATE: Oct 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Russia breaking ‘zero waste’ pledge

AKHSHTYR, Russia – Trucks rumble to the edge of a gigantic pit filled with spray cans, tires and foam sheets and dump a stream of concrete slabs that send up a cloud of limestone dust. Other...

DATE: Oct 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World