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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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Health-care change facing new problem

WASHINGTON – Move over, website woes. Lawmakers confronted the Obama administration Tuesday with a difficult new health-care problem – a wave of cancellation notices hitting individuals and ...

Official defends spy program

WASHINGTON – Facing lawmakers who suggested U.S. surveillance has gone too far, the national intelligence director Tuesday defended spying on foreign allies as necessary and said such scruti...

Nation Briefs

Texas seeks approval for new abortion rules AUSTIN, Texas – A federal appeals court weighed whether to grant an emergency motion Tuesday that would allow some new Texas abortion r...

Shuttle survives mishap

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A new, smaller version of NASA’s space shuttle is recuperating from a rough first landing. The Dream Chaser space plane is being designed by Sierra Nevada C...