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Patients could face big bills with plans WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s health-care law appears to mirror a trend in job-based insurance, where employees are being nudged ...

DATE: Sep 5, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World Briefs

Egyptian minister survives car bombing CAIRO — A “large” explosive targeted the convoy of Egypt’s interior minister Thursday in Cairo’s eastern Nasr City district, the first a...

DATE: Sep 5, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama seeks support for attack at meeting

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia – President Barack Obama pressed fellow world leaders on Thursday to support a U.S.-led strike on Syria, but he ran into opposition from Russia, China and even the Eur...

DATE: Sep 5, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

NASA aiming for moon again, this time from Virginia

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA is headed back to the moon, this time to explore its thin atmosphere and rough dust. The robotic spacecraft LADEE, will fly to the moon by way of Virg...

DATE: Sep 5, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Amid tensions, Obama, Putin put on a happy face

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia – President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin shook hands, smiled and made small talk about the scenery on Thursday – a public exchange of pleasa...

DATE: Sep 5, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Feds won’t enforce same-sex veterans law

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration said Wednesday it will stop enforcing a law that blocks benefits to partners of military veterans in same-sex marriages. In a letter to congr...

DATE: Sep 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. spies missed signs of Aug. 21 Syrian WMD strike

WASHINGTON – U.S. intelligence agencies did not detect the Syrian regime readying a massive chemical weapons attack in the days ahead of the strike, only piecing together what had happened a...

DATE: Sep 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Chelsea Manning seeks presidential pardon

HAGERSTOWN, Md. – Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning is seeking a presidential pardon for sending reams of classified information to WikiLeaks, a leak she says was done “out of a love for my country...

DATE: Sep 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Putin warns West on Syria action

NOVO-OGARYOVO, Russia – President Vladimir Putin warned the West against taking one-sided action in Syria but also said Russia “doesn’t exclude” supporting a U.N. resolution on punitive mili...

DATE: Sep 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

G-20 summit leaders face a divided global economy

WASHINGTON – Something unfamiliar will be in the background as world leaders hold a summit in Russia starting today: economic growth throughout the developed world. And something ...

DATE: Sep 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Report: Tsunami would swamp California’s economy

The potential impacts, based on a hypothetical magnitude-9.1 jolt off the Alaskan peninsula, were detailed by a team led by the U.S. Geological Survey to help emergency responders prepare. ...

DATE: Sep 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Drug abuse groups say pot stance of feds is wrong

SEATTLE – Drug abuse prevention groups asked the U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday how it will know whether its acceptance of recreational marijuana laws in Washington and Colorado affect...

DATE: Sep 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World