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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

Citing sarin use, Obama presses case

Attacking Syria divides Congress, Navy ships remain on standby

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

Syria dismisses Obama as he holds off on strikes

Military targets move in among residences

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

Blind driver races at Bonneville flats

WENDOVER, Utah – Dan Parker never got above 35 miles per hour, exceedingly slow compared to some motorcycles expected to roar at more than 300 at Bonneville Salt Flats speed trials. ...

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

Obama to seek OK from Congress

President holds off on attack against Assad regime

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

Stork jailed in Egypt for suspected spying

CAIRO – In a case that ruffled feathers in Egypt, authorities have detained a migratory bird that a citizen suspected of being a spy. A man in Egypt’s Qena governorate, about 280 ...

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

World Briefs

Egypt security forces arrest top Sinai militant CAIRO – Egyptian security forces said they arrested Saturday a top wanted militant in the Sinai Peninsula suspected of killing 25 o...

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

Nation Briefs

Alaska Dozens of aftershocks expected after 7.0 quake ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Dozens of noticeable aftershocks above magnitude 4.0 are expected in the remote Aleutian Islan...

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

Older workers present highway safety challenge

“We tend to think of older drivers as people driving personal vehicles. ... But many jobs require people to drive as part of their daily responsibilities.” Chris Hayes, ...

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

Rally begins against unpaid internships

A nascent campaign against employers’ use of unpaid interns is taking aim at what critics call some of the longstanding practice’s biggest enablers: colleges that steer students into such pr...

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

‘Dream’ ceremonies reveal political segregation

WASHINGTON – They came to honor Dr. Martin Luther King’s dream, a tapestry of humanity with all shades of skin and from all walks of life. Yet there was something missing from the Lincoln Me...

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