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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

Dell delays buyout vote until next week

Postponement signals lack of support

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

Senators ready to restore lower college loan rates

WASHINGTON – A bipartisan compromise on student loans promises better deals for students and parents over the next few years but could spell higher rates as the economy improves. ...

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

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Once-mighty Motor City files for bankruptcy DETROIT – Detroit became the biggest U.S. city to file for bankruptcy Thursday, its finances ravaged and its neighborhoods hollowed out...

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

U.S. official: New anti-leak measures set at NSA

ASPEN – The National Security Agency is implementing new security measures because of the disclosures by former NSA-systems-analyst-turned-fugitive Edward Snowden, a top defense official sai...

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

Penn State’s Sandusky settlements hit $60M so far

HARRISBURG, Pa. – Penn State University has reached tentative settlements totaling about $60 million so far with men who claim to have been sexually abused by former assistant football coach...

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

Mandela makes ‘dramatic’ progress, says daughter

JOHANNESBURG — Nelson Mandela has made “dramatic progress,” and may be going home “anytime soon,” said his daughter Zindzi on the eve of his 95th birthday. “I visited him yesterda...

DATE: Jul 17, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama defends health-care program

House GOP fails 38th time to repeal or scale back law

DATE: Jul 17, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Top EU diplomat calls for inclusive Egypt politics

CAIRO – The European Union’s top foreign policy official urged Egypt’s interim leaders and supporters of the ousted Islamist president Wednesday to cooperate in a political process that move...

DATE: Jul 17, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

$33,000 spent on sequestered jurors

ORLANDO, Fla. – About $33,000 was spent to sequester the six female jurors who acquitted George Zimmerman of any crime for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin, according to details released Wedn...

DATE: Jul 17, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Greek Parliament approves new austerity measures

ATHENS, Greece – Greece’s Parliament narrowly approved a new batch of austerity measures early Thursday, including thousands of public-sector job cuts and transfers, demanded by the country’...

DATE: Jul 17, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World