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NYC authorities crack down on short-term rentals

Websites offer alternatives to high-price of city hotels

DATE: Oct 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Insurance brokers simplify, confuse

Some sites offer healthy advice, others are scams

DATE: Oct 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation/World Briefs

Officials: Cyanide killed potential Bulger witness BOSTON – The Massachusetts medical examiner’s office determined that cyanide poisoning killed an alleged extortion victim of Bos...

DATE: Oct 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S., Israel tangle over Iran

Netanyahu wants more pressure on Tehran

DATE: Oct 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

GOP finds ammo in Obamacare computer trouble

WASHINGTON – “Obamacare” escaped unharmed from the government shutdown Republicans hoped would stop it, but just as quickly they have opened a new line of attack – one handed to them by the ...

DATE: Oct 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Claws out for new fight on spending

Lawmakers and lobbyists look to looming cuts

DATE: Oct 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Discouraged voters meet enemy and it is them?

WASHINGTON – Hey, fed-up Americans, here’s a scary thought after the dispiriting spectacle of the government shutdown: You’re the ones who sent these members of Congress to Washington, and t...

DATE: Oct 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Offshore fracking is on the rise in Calif.

LONG BEACH, Calif. – The oil-production technique known as fracking is more widespread and frequently used in the offshore platforms and human-made islands near some of California’s most pop...

DATE: Oct 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Pa., N.J. try to legalize gay marriage

Advocates see it happening in near future

DATE: Oct 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

New York Guards posted to protect graffiti art by Banksy NEW YORK – A Brooklyn building owner has hired security guards and installed a metal gate to protect a work by ...

DATE: Oct 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Gun-rights activists rally at Alamo

SAN ANTONIO – Several hundred gun-rights activists armed with rifles and shotguns rallied outside of the Alamo on Saturday in a demonstration that broke a longstanding tradition of not stagi...

DATE: Oct 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World