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States predict more insurance customers

WASHINGTON — Estimates from 19 states operating health insurance exchanges to help the uninsured find coverage show that at least 8.5 million will use the exchanges to buy insurance, a USA T...

DATE: Aug 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Benghazi aftershocks affecting U.S. policy in Egypt

WASHINGTON – The specter of Benghazi is affecting U.S. policy in coup-wracked Egypt. The attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi that killed the American ambassador and left thre...

DATE: Aug 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Islamists on defensive throughout Middle East

The backlash against Muslim Brotherhood rule in Egypt comes as secular forces across the Middle East are rising up in opposition to political Islam. Divisions reach from top leaders to the s...

DATE: Aug 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

House chairman rejects 'special' citizenship path

VERONA, Va. – The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee on Monday rejected the idea of giving immigrants in the U.S. illegally a special pathway to citizenship, and said the House must c...

DATE: Aug 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Kidnap suspect leaves money to victim’s family

SAN DIEGO – A man who died in a shootout with FBI agents after kidnapping a 16-year-old girl and killing her mother and brother named a member of the victims’ family as his life insurance b...

DATE: Aug 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Judge bars most motive evidence in Fort Hood trial

Associated Press FORT HOOD, Texas – A military judge blocked several key pieces of evidence Monday that prosecutors said would explain the mindset of the soldier accused in the 20...

DATE: Aug 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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Prosecutors urging 60 years for Manning FORT MEADE, Md. – Army Pfc. Bradley Manning should spend 60 years in prison because he betrayed the U.S. by giving classified material ...

DATE: Aug 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Court: Mubarak may be freed soon

CAIRO – A court ruling Monday raised the possibility of jailed ex-president Hosni Mubarak walking free soon, a move that would fuel the unrest roiling the country after the autocratic leade...

DATE: Aug 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Panel urges better coastal construction

Group foresees more flooding, harsher storms

DATE: Aug 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Defiant NSA leaks reporter says he won’t be silenced

RIO DE JANEIRO – An American journalist who has written stories based on documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden said Monday he’ll publish with more fer...

DATE: Aug 18, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation/World Briefs

Mich. officers kill bear; seeks link girl’s mauling DETROIT – Conservation officers shot and killed a black bear Sunday and plan tests to see if it is the animal that chased and m...

DATE: Aug 18, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Egypt: 36 prisoners dead in riot

CAIRO – Egyptian police fired tear gas Sunday in an attempt to free a guard from rioting detainees, killing at least 36 as the country’s military leader vowed to tolerate no more violence af...

DATE: Aug 18, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World