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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 ...

Claws out for new fight on spending

Lawmakers and lobbyists look to looming cuts

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...

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...

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

Advocates see it happening in near future

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 ...

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...

Death penalty provision revisited

Ga. may require defendants to prove disability

Growing backlash to government surveillance

SAN JOSE, Calif. – From Silicon Valley to the South Pacific, counterattacks to revelations of widespread National Security Agency surveillance are taking shape, from a surge of new encrypted...

Syria war plays out on Web

People show videos through social media

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood gets put on stand

CAIRO – Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood faces a wave of trials unlike any it has seen in its history, threatening to put a large number of its senior leaders behind bars for years, even life, as ...

World Briefs

Australian authorities fear worsening wildfires SYDNEY – Firefighters battling some of the most destructive wildfires to ever strike Australia’s most populous state were bracing S...