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Obama’s ambitions limited by political reality

WASHINGTON – Six months ago, President Barack Obama stood on the Capitol steps and offered a soaring liberal vision for his second term. Buoyed by re-election, he said the nation must pursue...

DATE: Jul 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Politics, law overlap in Russia

MOSCOW – In the minutes after opposition leader Alexei Navalny was sentenced to prison, the Russian stock market took a dive. When a court released him a day later, share prices dropped mark...

DATE: Jul 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Opposition leader returns to Moscow

MOSCOW – Hundreds of supporters greeted charismatic Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny as he returned to Moscow on Saturday after his surprise release from jail and vowed to push forwa...

DATE: Jul 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Aurora victims honored, gun groups protest

100 gun-rights activists gather

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

Nation/World Briefs

Secret court OKs continued surveillance WASHINGTON – A secret U.S. intelligence court renewed an order Friday to continue forcing Verizon Communications to turn over hundreds of m...

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

House votes to replace ‘No Child’ education law

WASHINGTON – House Republicans voted Friday to dismantle the troubled No Child Left Behind law for evaluating America’s students and schools, saying states and local school districts rather ...

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

Kerry wins step to resuming Israeli-Palestinian peace talks

AMMAN, Jordan – After a rush of last-minute talks with Palestinian officials, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sealed a step toward relaunching the long-halted Mideast peace process, annou...

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

Obama asks ‘soul searching’ after Martin shooting

WASHINGTON – Looking for positive lessons to draw from the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, President Barack Obama said Friday the nation needs to do some “soul-searching,” look for ways to...

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

Coroner: Teen in Asiana crash killed by vehicle

SAN MATEO, Calif. – A teenager survived the Asiana Airlines crash in San Francisco only to be struck and killed by a fire vehicle rushing to fight a blaze that broke out on the plane, author...

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

World Briefs

Palestinians: Israel must agree on borders RAMALLAH, West Bank – A stormy, high-level meeting of senior Palestinian leaders called to discuss U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s ...

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

Health report upbeat as Mandela turns 95

JOHANNESBURG – Hospital visitors say Nelson Mandela smiled and nodded Thursday – his 95th birthday – and South Africans celebrated upbeat reports about the former president’s health after we...

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

Panama holds former CIA officer convicted in Italy in rendition case

PANAMA CITY – A former CIA base chief convicted in the 2003 abduction of a terror suspect from an Italian street has been detained in Panama after Italy requested his arrest in one of the mo...

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

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