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Officials: Syria deadline ‘not unrealistic’

THE HAGUE, Netherlands – International inspection teams overseeing the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons will have to negotiate cease-fires between government and rebel forces to gain ...

Insurance shopping? Put drug coverage at top of list

Premiums and deductibles tend to get the most attention when it comes to health insurance. Drug coverage deserves far more than it gets. And that’s true whether you’re shopping for insurance...

Justices hear campaign finance law case

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court appeared ready Tuesday to free big individual donors to give more money to political candidates in the court’s first major campaign-finance case since the just...

Disputes cloud Asia-Pacific summit focus on trade

BALI, Indonesia – Asia-Pacific leaders vowed Tuesday to cooperate on stabilizing a global economic recovery threatened by resource scarcity and bottlenecks to growth. Leaders of ...

SEALS met too much gunfire at Somalia base

Navy SEALs abandoned their mission to capture an Islamist terrorist suspected of planning the mall attack in Kenya after encountering strong resistance at the man’s beach-side stronghold in ...

Terror suspect being detained aboard warship

WASHINGTON – Aboard a Navy warship, U.S. investigators are likely playing good cop/bad cop, shouting and banging their hands on a table to get suspected al-Qaida operative Abu Anas al-Libi t...

Questionable design blamed for health website woes

Associated Press WASHINGTON – A decision to require that consumers create online accounts before they can browse available health plans under President Barack Obama’s overhaul app...

3 seek to overturn convictions

ALBANY, N.Y. – Three people convicted of murder in deadly crashes urged New York’s highest court Tuesday to throw out their convictions, arguing they were too intoxicated to know the threat...

Nation Briefs

Police find no motive in D.C. chase case WASHINGTON – Police found no weapon or apparent evidence of motive while searching the car of a woman who was fatally shot by police afte...

General: Brotherhood ‘arrogant’

CAIRO – Egypt’s powerful army chief described the Muslim Brotherhood as “arrogant and tyrannical” while deposed Islamist President Mohammed Morsi was in power, saying in an interview publish...

World Briefs

Mexican police held in kidnapping case MEXICO CITY – Mexican authorities announced Tuesday the arrest of 13 federal police officers who allegedly belonged to a kidnap and murde...

Briton, Belgian win Nobel

STOCKHOLM – Nearly 50 years after they came up with the theory, but little more than a year since the world’s biggest atom smasher delivered the proof, Britain’s Peter Higgs and Belgian coll...