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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

Syria deal shines light on Israeli capabilities

JERUSALEM – The U.S.-Russian plan to dismantle Syria’s chemical weapons is drawing attention to Israel’s own suspected chemical stockpile and could raise pressure on the Jewish state to come...

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

New Egyptian petition: Run, General, run

CAIRO – A group of professionals and former army officers Monday launched a petition urging Egypt’s military chief, who ousted the country’s first freely elected leader, to run for president...

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

Summers debate highlights Obama fissures with Dems

WASHINGTON – Once again, President Barack Obama has been forced to abandon a friend and ally he wanted to nominate for a top job. But this time, the resistance that pushed Lawrenc...

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

Big-business leaders talk tax code at Montana summit

BUTTE, Mont. – U.S. Sen. Max Baucus said Monday that his effort to revamp the tax code helped attract some of the business world’s biggest names to Montana for a jobs conference that touche...

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

Efforts to stop lead poisoning could be at risk

Pediatricians and public health advocates are working to revive programs to protect children from lead poisoning, after what they describe as a series of devastating blows to their efforts. ...

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

Nation/World Briefs

House looks at cutting food stamp funding WASHINGTON – The House is expected to consider a bill this week that would cut food stamps by an estimated $4 billion annually and allow ...

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

U.N. confirms sarin gas used in Syria attack

UNITED NATIONS – Careful not to blame either side for a deadly chemical weapon attack, U.N. inspectors reported Monday that rockets loaded with the nerve agent sarin had been fired from an a...

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

Flooded Colorado towns clean up as rescues continue

ESTES PARK, Colo. – Colorado mountain towns cut off for days by massive flooding slowly reopened to reveal cabins toppled, homes ripped from their foundations and everything covered in a th...

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

12 killed in Washington Navy Yard shooting

WASHINGTON – As many as two gunmen opened fire Monday morning inside the Washington Navy Yard, killing at least 12 people in an attack on office workers at the heavily secured military insta...

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

Lawrence Summers withdraws name from Fed consideration

Exit may open door for chief rival Janet Yellen

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

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