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Feds eye protection for bird

SAN FRANCISCO – Federal wildlife officials on Friday proposed to list as threatened populations of greater sage grouse in Nevada and California in an effort to save the struggling species, a...

DATE: Oct 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

AP sources: Foreign help to US could be exposed

Word of the briefings by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence comes amid questions swirling around overseas surveillance by the National Security Agency, which has angered all...

DATE: Oct 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

More victims of online abuse reach out to parents

Associated Press WASHINGTON – Sarah Ball was a 15-year-old high school sophomore at Hernando High School in Brooksville, Fla., when a friend posted on Facebook: “I hate Sarah Ball...

DATE: Oct 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

NSA drawing more criticism

BRUSSELS – European leaders united in anger Thursday as they attended a summit overshadowed by reports of widespread U.S. spying on its allies – allegations German Chancellor Angela Merkel s...

DATE: Oct 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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U.N. group to meet with Iran negotiator VIENNA – A top nuclear negotiator from Tehran will meet with the head of the U.N.’s nuclear agency next week just hours before agency expe...

DATE: Oct 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Communists may back Czech party

PRAGUE – Upcoming parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic could see a result some consider a threat to democracy: a government backed by the hardline Communist Party. The ea...

DATE: Oct 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

States fight over right to claim first flight

Ohio and North Carolina drew a line on the tarmac Thursday in the fight over who was first to make a powered airplane flight. Ohio license plates proclaim the state is the “Birthp...

DATE: Oct 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama calls for immigration law by year’s end

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama made a plea for Republican cooperation on immigration Thursday, seeking common ground by year’s end in the aftermath of the divisive partial government sh...

DATE: Oct 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

Study finds Facebook news source for many NEW YORK – Most people don’t log on to Facebook to find out the news. But it’s an important news source anyway, even if incidentally, a s...

DATE: Oct 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Violent crime rises in U.S. for second year

WASHINGTON – The violent crime rate went up 15 percent last year, and the property crime rate rose 12 percent, the government said Thursday, signs that the nation may be seeing the last of t...

DATE: Oct 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Contractors reject blame for website woes

WASHINGTON – Contractors who built the web portal for the Obama administration’s health insurance marketplace said Thursday the site’s crippling problems trace back to insufficient testing a...

DATE: Oct 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Two shot at National Guard armory; shooter in custody

MILLINGTON, Tenn. – A member of the National Guard opened fire at an armory outside a U.S. Navy base in Tennessee, wounding two soldiers before being subdued and disarmed by others soldiers...

DATE: Oct 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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