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Dead people gave nearly $600,000 to campaigns since 2009, newspaper finds

WASHINGTON – The dead can’t vote, but they can give money to politicians. Thirty-two people listed on federal campaign records as “deceased” have contributed more than $586,000 to...

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

Envoys seek a bridge between hard choices in Egypt

CAIRO – Top U.S., European and Arab envoys visited a jailed Muslim Brotherhood leader Monday on a mission to ease tensions between Egypt’s military-backed government and supporters of ousted...

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

Court says Pennsylvania schools can’t ban ‘boobies’ bracelets

Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — After years of litigation about students’ free speech rights, a full U.S. appeals court ruled Monday that a Pennsylvania school district cannot ban...

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

Samantha Power presents credentials as U.S. envoy

UNITED NATIONS – Samantha Power presented her credentials as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday, stressing the critical link between the global ...

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

HHS starts features to help consumers learn insurance

WASHINGTON — The government launched a new webpage, training videos and infographics Monday to help Americans better understand the health insurance exchanges that will launch Oct. 1. ...

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

Lab-grown hamburger passes taste test – sort of

LONDON – The food of the future could do with a pinch of seasoning – and maybe some cheese. Two volunteers who took the first public bites of hamburger grown in a laboratory gave...

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

Nation/World Briefs

Amazon founder buying Washington Post LOS ANGELES – Jeff Bezos, the Amazon.com founder who helped bring books into the digital age, is going after another pillar of “old media”: T...

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

FBI allowed informants to commit 5,600 crimes

WASHINGTON – The FBI gave its informants permission to break the law at least 5,658 times in a single year, according to newly disclosed documents that show just how often the nation’s top l...

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

Intercepted message prompted closures

WASHINGTON – An intercepted secret message between al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahri and his deputy in Yemen about plans for a major terror attack was the trigger that set off the current shut...

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

University of Iowa is No. 1 party school

IOWA CITY, Iowa – College students consider the University of Iowa the nation’s best party school, even though Iowa City has tried to make its famous bar scene less hospitable to underage dr...

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

New Iranian president vows support for Bashar Assad

BEIRUT – Iran’s new president expressed his country’s support to Syria’s embattled leader Bashar Assad’s regime Sunday, saying no force in the world will be able to shake their decades-old a...

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