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National Park Service defends shutdown

WASHINGTON – With the National Park Service under fire from Republicans for how it’s gone about shuttering parks and monuments it operates during the 16-day-old government shutdown, Democrat...

DATE: Oct 16, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Memo outlines health-care hopes

WASHINGTON – For the first month alone, the Obama administration projected that nearly a half million people would sign up for the new health insurance markets, according to an internal memo...

DATE: Oct 16, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

Special prosecutor set for teen assault case MARYVILLE, Mo. – A northwest Missouri prosecutor said Wednesday that he’s asking for a special prosecutor to look at the case of a 14-...

DATE: Oct 16, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Democrat Booker wins US Senate election in NJ

TRENTON, N.J. – Newark Mayor Cory Booker won a special election Wednesday to represent New Jersey in the U.S. Senate, giving the rising Democratic star a bigger political stage after a race...

DATE: Oct 16, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World Briefs

Russians raise piece of meteor from lake MOSCOW — Russian scientists have recovered a giant chunk of the Chelyabinsk meteor from the bottom of the lake it crashed into. ...

DATE: Oct 16, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Syrian rebels break with political group

BEIRUT – Several dozen rebel groups in southern Syria have broken with the main political opposition group in exile, a local commander said in a video posted Wednesday, dealing a potential n...

DATE: Oct 16, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

EU praises Iran nuclear talks

GENEVA – High-stakes nuclear talks between Iran and six world powers adjourned on an upbeat note Wednesday, with the European Union’s top diplomat calling them ‘’very important.” Iran’s fore...

DATE: Oct 16, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. government back in business

Landslide, late-night vote ends shutdown, avoids debt default

DATE: Oct 16, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Berlin museum seeks return of ancient gold tablet

A Holocaust survivor’s family urged New York’s highest court Tuesday to let them keep an ancient gold tablet that their late father somehow obtained in Germany after World War II. ...

DATE: Oct 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Why US bonds matter to global markets and you

NEW YORK – It’s no surprise that investors get nervous every time politicians debate raising the U.S. debt limit. The stock market is the better-known barometer of the U.S. financ...

DATE: Oct 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

Libyan al-Qaida suspect pleads not guilty NEW YORK – An alleged al-Qaida member who was snatched off the streets in Libya and interrogated for a week aboard an American warship pl...

DATE: Oct 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Uneven oversight found at nuclear plants

BOSTON – The number of safety violations at U.S. nuclear power plants varies dramatically from region to region, pointing to inconsistent enforcement in an industry now operating mostly beyo...

DATE: Oct 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World