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Globe swelters through 5th-warmest summer on record

The world had its fifth-warmest summer since records began in 1880, the National Climatic Data Center reported Tuesday. Specifically, the temperature over global land and ocean su...

DATE: Sep 17, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

’Hiccup Girl’ on trial on murder charge in Florida

CLEARWATER, Fla. – A Florida woman who appeared on several national television programs as a teen because of her uncontrollable hiccupping went on trial on a murder charge on Tuesday. ...

DATE: Sep 17, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Congress looks to relax mandatory prison terms

WASHINGTON – Every weekend, Cindy Martinson treks from her home in Mason City, Iowa, about 160 miles roundtrip to Waseca, Minn. She visits the federal prison there, where her daughter Mandy ...

DATE: Sep 17, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

New study warns of U.S. long-term debt problems

WASHINGTON – The government could run out of cash to pay its bills in full and on time sometime between the end of October and the middle of November if lawmakers fail to increase its $16.7 ...

DATE: Sep 17, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Internet blocks return in Iran after brief opening

TEHRAN, Iran – Word of the opening of Iran’s blocked social media sites was spread, of course, by social media itself: in celebratory tweets and breathless Facebook posts. Hours later, the s...

DATE: Sep 17, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.N. official: World failing over climate change

LONDON – International leaders are failing in their fight against global warming, one of the United Nations’ top climate officials said Tuesday, appealing directly to the world’s voters to p...

DATE: Sep 17, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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Republican seek delay of health-care law WASHINGTON – Implacable Republican opposition to Obamacare has Congress once more veering closer to gridlock. In the House, mor...

DATE: Sep 17, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Russia rejects use of force in Syria

DAMASCUS, Syria – Russia insisted Tuesday that a U.N. Security Council resolution governing Syria’s handling of its chemical weapons not allow the use of force, but it suggested that could c...

DATE: Sep 17, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

White House criticizes lawmakers opposing gun bill

Associated Press WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s spokesman on Tuesday criticized lawmakers who have stood in the way of expanded background checks for gun purchases and said...

DATE: Sep 17, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Shooter was hearing voices

WASHINGTON – A month before he went on the rampage that left 13 dead, Washington Navy Yard gunman Aaron Alexis complained to police in Rhode Island that people were talking to him through th...

DATE: Sep 17, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Brazil looks to break from U.S.-centric Internet

RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil plans to divorce itself from the U.S.-centric Internet over Washington’s widespread online spying, a move that many experts fear will be a potentially dangerous first...

DATE: Sep 17, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Poverty stuck at 15% despite economic uptick

WASHINGTON – The nation’s poverty rate remained stuck at 15 percent last year despite America’s slowly reviving economy, a discouraging lack of improvement for the record 46.5 million poor a...

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