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Spain train speeding before crash

SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain – A Spanish train that hurtled off the rails and smashed into a security wall as it rounded a bend was going so fast that carriages tumbled off the tracks like ...

DATE: Jul 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

Homeland nominee denies visa allegations WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s choice to be the No. 2 official at the Department of Homeland Security used his appearance before a ...

DATE: Jul 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Industry, advocates finalize mobile app guidelines

WASHINGTON – A group of industry lobbyists and privacy rights advocates voiced support Thursday for new voluntary guidelines for mobile apps that should make it easier for consumers to know ...

DATE: Jul 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Prosecutors: Manning abused his country’s trust

FORT MEADE, Md. – U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning was a traitor with one mission as an intelligence analyst in Iraq: to find and reveal government secrets to a group of anarchists and bask in...

DATE: Jul 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Juror says Zimmerman ‘got away with murder’

The lone minority member of the jury that acquitted George Zimmerman says Zimmerman “got away with murder” in the killing of teenager Trayvon Martin. In an interview with ABC News...

DATE: Jul 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Authorities: Man said he was headed to kill Grace

PHOENIX – A New York man indicted in Arizona on charges that he made Twitter death threats against two national TV commentators over their coverage of Jodi Arias, whom he claims to be in lov...

DATE: Jul 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

FEC approves campaign donations from same-sex couples

WASHINGTON – Federal election regulators voted Thursday to treat political contributions from legally married same-sex couples the same way they treat donations from married heterosexual cou...

DATE: Jul 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

House fails to kill Pentagon’s foreign websites

WASHINGTON - The House has failed to kill funding for websites the Pentagon uses to try to influence foreign audiences, an initiative criticized in a recent undisclosed government report. ...

DATE: Jul 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Senate pushes sanctions on nations aiding Snowden

WASHINGTON – U.S. sanctions against any country offering asylum to Edward Snowden advanced in Congress Thursday as the 30-year-old National Security Agency leaker remained in a Moscow airpor...

DATE: Jul 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

North Korea to display captured spy ship

PYONGYANG, North Korea – If there was ever any doubt about what happened to the only U.S. Navy ship that is being held by a foreign government, North Korea has cleared it up. It’s in Pyongya...

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

World Briefs

U.S. drone program in Pakistan scaled back ISLAMABAD – The United States has drastically scaled back the number of drone attacks against militants in Pakistan and limited strikes ...

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

Families still separated 60 years after Korean War

GYEONGSAN, South Korea – Hong Jong Soon gazes out her window for hours each day, past a small garden where sesame and red peppers grow, past an iron gate and low wall, hoping to witness the ...

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