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Suspects face judge in alleged plot to kill Las Vegas police

LAS VEGAS – A couple accused of plotting to abduct, torture and kill police to further their anti-authority “sovereign citizens” movement told a Las Vegas judge on Friday that they didn’t re...

DATE: Aug 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Wind pushes Sierra inferno

Blaze imperils mountain towns, S.F.’s power, water

DATE: Aug 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

‘Hyperloop’ gains attention

Tesla founder proposes plans for Calif. public transportation

DATE: Aug 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World briefs

Iraqi insurgent attacks spread death, violence BAGHDAD – Insurgents bent on destabilizing Iraq killed at least 46 people in numerous attacks scattered around the country on Sunday...

DATE: Aug 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. overhauls Native American tribe-recognition process

KENT, Conn. – His tribe once controlled huge swaths of what is now New York and Connecticut, but the shrunken reservation presided over by Alan Russell today hosts little more than four most...

DATE: Aug 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Syria OKs UN chemical weapons investigation

White House official: ‘Too late to be credible’

DATE: Aug 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Pilots’ focus is under scrutiny

Automated flight controls in airline cockpits have become so reliable that safety experts say pilots could become inattentive to rare malfunctions that can lead to crashes. Proble...

DATE: Aug 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

’13 calmest for tornadoes since 2002

The United States is seeing its quietest year for tornadoes in more than a decade. Of course, for the victims of the savage EF-5 tornado that blasted Moore, Okla., in May, the sea...

DATE: Aug 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

More armed security at schools after Newtown

MIAMI – In the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Pembroke Pines, students returning to school this year are being greeted not only by their teachers and principal. They’re also meeting the armed sch...

DATE: Aug 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Colo. adds alternate drug for executions

DENVER – Colorado’s instructions for putting prisoners to death by lethal injection have been revised to include an alternate drug, underscoring problems states face in carrying out executio...

DATE: Aug 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

New mammal species found

WASHINGTON – Imagine a mini-raccoon with a teddy bear face that is so cute it’s hard to resist, let alone overlook. But somehow science did – until now. Researchers have announced...

DATE: Aug 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

AAA: Public less worried about dangerous driving

WASHINGTON – Americans are much less worried about drunken, drowsy and aggressive driving than they were four years ago, even though traffic deaths have begun to edge back up, according to a...

DATE: Aug 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World