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SEAL attack target behind Kenya plots

NAIROBI, Kenya – The man U.S. Navy SEALs tried to take down in Somalia over the weekend was a Kenyan who had plotted to attack his country’s parliament building and the United Nations headqu...

DATE: Oct 7, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

Accident damages experimental airship TUSTIN, Calif. – A $35 million lighter-than-air dirigible was damaged and leaked helium Monday after part of a hangar roof collapsed at a fo...

DATE: Oct 7, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World Briefs

Officials blame driver for deaths at event CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – Mexican government officials and event organizers Monday blamed the driver of a monster truck for losing control...

DATE: Oct 7, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

3 share Nobel Prize in medicine

NEW YORK – Two Americans and a German-American won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for illuminating how tiny bubbles inside cells shuttle key substances around like a vast and highly effi...

DATE: Oct 7, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. expects to sign pact with Afghanistan

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration is optimistic that a U.S.-Afghan agreement over the future role of American troops in the country can be finalized in the next few weeks despite two mai...

DATE: Oct 7, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

High court weighs limits on campaign contributions

WASHINGTON – In its first major campaign finance case since the Citizens United ruling in 2010, the Supreme Court is considering whether to undo some limits on contributions from the biggest...

DATE: Oct 7, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Insurers confident health-plan websites will succeed

WASHINGTON – The glitch-ridden rollout of President Barack Obama’s health-care law has opponents crowing: “Told you so!” and insisting it should be paused, if not scrapped. But ot...

DATE: Oct 7, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Israeli lawmakers pay rare visit to Ramallah

RAMALLAH, West Bank – A delegation of Israeli lawmakers paid a rare visit to the West Bank on Monday to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and give an emotional boost to fledgling peac...

DATE: Oct 7, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

White House open to short-term hike in debt limit

Associated Press WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats intend to introduce legislation by midweek to raise the nation’s debt limit without the unrelated conditions Republicans have said t...

DATE: Oct 7, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Judge’s decision will determine BP’s fine for oil spill

NEW ORLEANS – For weeks after BP’s massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, people across the globe were captivated by a live video feed from underwater cameras that showed the company’...

DATE: Oct 7, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Debt limit becoming focus of crisis

Obama calls for immediate vote, but negotiations on shutdown in a deadlock

DATE: Oct 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Budget fight offers crash course on Congress

WASHINGTON – If majorities in both the House and Senate would vote to reopen the government with no strings attached, or vote to repeal the new health care law’s sales tax on heart pacemaker...

DATE: Oct 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World