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U.S. students flee Egypt

U.S. college students in Egypt have left or are preparing to leave the country after the demonstrations and political upheaval this week on the streets of Cairo and beyond, campus officials ...

DATE: Jul 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Employers scramble to provide benefits amid same-sex law

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on same-sex marriage has private employers around the country scrambling to make sure their employee benefit plans comply with the law. ...

DATE: Jul 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

‘Evil spirit’ scam plagues NYC

NEW YORK – One woman was told by a fortune teller that her son was possessed by demons. Another was approached on a Chinatown street by a stranger who eerily claimed her daughter would die i...

DATE: Jul 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Texas senator attracting attention after filibuster

Davis now a polarizing figure on abortion

DATE: Jul 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Islamic militants kill 30 at Nigeria school

POTISKUM, Nigeria – Islamic militants attacked a boarding school before dawn Saturday, dousing a dormitory in fuel and lighting it ablaze as students slept, survivors said. At least 30 peopl...

DATE: Jul 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Egypt: New president names interim PM

CAIRO – Egypt’s new president moved to assert his authority Saturday by naming a chief rival of ousted leader Mohammed Morsi as interim prime minister and holding crisis talks with security ...

DATE: Jul 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World Briefs

Bombing in Pakistan kills at least four LAHORE, Pakistan – Police say a bomb has exploded at a busy market street in eastern Pakistan, killing at least four people and wounding 40...

DATE: Jul 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Former prisoner to lead Syria opposition group

BEIRUT – A former Syrian political prisoner with close links to Saudi Arabia was picked Saturday to lead Syria’s main Western-backed opposition group, filling a post long vacant because of d...

DATE: Jul 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. military struggled with morale during Vietnam War

Bitter sectarian divisions, desertion, poor discipline. The Afghanistan army of 2013? No, the U.S. army during the waning years of Vietnam, when racism, drugs and “fragging” of leaders threa...

DATE: Jul 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

NTSB to investigate crash of airliner in San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO – An Asiana Airlines flight from Seoul, South Korea, crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday, forcing passengers to jump down the emergency inf...

DATE: Jul 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Senate Dems Obama’s hardest Guantanamo sell

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s hardest sell in his renewed push to close the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, may be members of his own party – moderate Senate Democrats...

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

In Egypt, clashes erupt as Islamists push back

CAIRO – Enraged Islamists pushed back Friday against the toppling of President Mohammed Morsi, as tens of thousands of his supporters took to the streets vowing to win his reinstatement and ...

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