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Crews gain on Yosemite fire; full containment weeks away

Crews gain on Yosemite fire, but containment weeks away

DATE: Sep 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S.-Brazil tensions rise after new NSA spy report

RIO DE JANEIRO – The Brazilian government condemned a U.S. spy program that reportedly targeted the nation’s leader, labeled it an “unacceptable invasion” of sovereignty and called Monday fo...

DATE: Sep 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama tries persuading the skeptical on Syria

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama worked on Monday to persuade skeptical lawmakers to endorse a U.S. military intervention in civil war-wracked Syria, winning conditional support from two ...

DATE: Sep 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation/World Briefs

Police believe father was shooting target NEW YORK – Police investigating the death of a 1-year-old boy shot in the head in his stroller said Monday they believe his father was th...

DATE: Sep 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Assad: Attack will spur ‘chaos’

PARIS – France released an intelligence report on Monday alleging chemical weapons use by Syria’s regime that dovetailed with similar U.S. claims, as President Bashar Assad warned that any m...

DATE: Sep 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Sandy’s ‘freaky’ path may not be repeated

WASHINGTON – Man-made global warming may further lessen the likelihood of the freak atmospheric steering currents that last year shoved Superstorm Sandy due west into New Jersey, a new study...

DATE: Sep 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Police social-media site planned

SAN FRANCISCO – The final stages are near completion for the launch of a law enforcement social media network designed exclusively for the men and women in blue. Created by forme...

DATE: Sep 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

DEA data mining reported

SEATTLE – For at least six years, federal drug and other agents have had near-immediate access to billions of phone call records dating back decades in a collaboration with AT&T that officia...

DATE: Sep 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nyad 1st to swim to Florida from Cuba without cage

KEY WEST, Fla. – Looking dazed and sunburned, U.S. endurance swimmer Diana Nyad walked on to the Key West shore Monday, becoming the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without the hel...

DATE: Sep 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Under pressure, Obama overrules policy advisers

WASHINGTON – For President Barack Obama’s new foreign policy advisers, the first test of their willingness to undertake military action wound up being a stark lesson in the president’s abili...

DATE: Sep 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Fast-food workers’ protests highlight industry’s economics

NEW YORK – American fast-food workers often earn about $7.25 an hour to make the $3 chicken sandwiches and 99-cent tacos that generate billions of dollars in profit each year for McDonald’s ...

DATE: Aug 31, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation/World Briefs

Sierra wildfire now California’s 4th-largest YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. – The wildfire burning in and around Yosemite National Park has become the fourth-largest conflagratio...

DATE: Aug 31, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World