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U.S. employers add 162,000 jobs in July

WASHINGTON – The U.S. economy is steadily adding jobs – just not at a consistently strong pace. July’s modest gain of 162,000 jobs was the smallest since March. And most of the jo...

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

Report: Wildlife agency ignored whistle-blowers

WASHINGTON – Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe failed for more than a year to discipline two supervisors who retaliated against whistle-blowers at an Oklahoma field office, the Int...

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

Snowden move is latest snub to Obama from Russia

MOSCOW – Russia’s granting of temporary asylum for NSA leaker Edward Snowden is the latest in a string of slights against President Obama by Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose actions h...

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

Congress heads home for vacation after months of feuding, few accomplishments

WASHINGTON – Leaving piles of unfinished business for the fall, Congress began exiting Washington Thursday for a five-week vacation with its accomplishments few, its efforts at budgeting in ...

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

World Briefs

Spain train driver says he can’t explain speed MADRID – The driver of the train that derailed in northwestern Spain, killing 79 people, said he was traveling at twice the speed l...

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

U.S., Pakistan to open talks

ISLAMABAD – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Pakistani counterpart, Sartaj Aziz, said Thursday that the two countries will resume high-level negotiations about security issues. ...

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

Nation Briefs

Fort Hood suspect renounces citizenship FORT HOOD, Texas – Days before he’s set to go on trial, the Army psychiatrist charged in the Fort Hood shooting rampage released more o...

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

Critics of NSA, Obama meet

WASHINGTON – Struggling to salvage a massive surveillance program, President Barack Obama faced congressional critics of the National Security Agency’s collection of Americans’ telephone re...

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

Deadline nears to add system to stop trains

Transit systems face a 2015 deadline to install automatic equipment to halt trains that are speeding or disobeying signals, but Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx acknowledged Thursday th...

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

Ohio man gets life term in kidnapping of three women

CLEVELAND – The man convicted of holding three women captive in a house he turned into a prison and raping them repeatedly for a decade was sentenced Thursday to life without parole plus 1,0...

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

Snowden leaves airport after Russia grants asylum

MOSCOW – National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden left the transit zone of a Moscow airport and officially entered Russia after authorities granted him asylum for a year, his lawyer s...

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

Study: Hot weather leads to hot heads

WASHINGTON – As the world gets warmer, people are more likely to get hot under the collar, scientists say. A massive new study finds that aggressive acts such as committing violent crimes an...

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

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