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Financial woes beset Girl Scouts

Group faces declining membership

DATE: Jun 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Egyptians demand their leader’s ouster

Hundreds of thousands turn out for protest

DATE: Jun 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama asserts Mandela’s values are Africa’s future

CAPE TOWN, South Africa – Challenging African youth to seize a “moment of great promise,” President Barack Obama declared Sunday that the future of the young and growing continent still rest...

DATE: Jun 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

San Francisco Bay Area transit talks to resume OAKLAND, Calif. – Two of San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit’s largest unions and management returned to the bargaining table Sunda...

DATE: Jun 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Animal group fights for rights at pet mills

LOS ANGELES – The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is bolstering its campaign against puppy mills by showing photos of sick puppies and harsh kennel conditions taken...

DATE: Jun 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World Briefs

Bombings kill 43 people in Pakistan QUETTA, Pakistan – Bombings killed at least 43 people in three different areas of Pakistan on Sunday, just as Britain’s prime minister was in t...

DATE: Jun 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

California San Francisco transit talks resume, strike looms OAKLAND, Calif. – With a Sunday night deadline approaching, negotiations between the San Francisco Bay Area ...

DATE: Jun 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama pays tribute to ill Mandela

President meets with family of former South African leader

DATE: Jun 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

N.Y. Fourth of July to begin with a spark

NEW YORK – What’s new this Fourth of July? A happy face with a wink, exploding over New York City as part of Macy’s Fourth of July Fireworks 2013 – the nation’s biggest display. ...

DATE: Jun 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. marijuana popularity confounds feds

WASHINGTON – It took 50 years for American attitudes about marijuana to zigzag from the paranoia of “Reefer Madness” to the excesses of Woodstock back to the hard line of “Just Say No.” ...

DATE: Jun 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Is the search for NSA leaker a distraction?

Edward Snowden’s continent-jumping, hide-and-seek game seems like the stuff of a pulp thriller – a desperate man’s drama played out before a worldwide audience trying to decide if he’s a her...

DATE: Jun 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World Briefs

Bombings, shooting kill 11 people in Iraq BAGHDAD – Bombs and a shooting targeted a marketplace and off-duty policemen in Iraq on Saturday, killing at last 11 people in the latest...

DATE: Jun 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World