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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

Millions worldwide share Mandela vigil

As Nelson Mandela lingers in a hospital, yet another remarkable moment is helping to seal his legacy: Millions of people around the world, united by respect and gratitude, are preparing for ...

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

Egypt prepares for the worst

CAIRO – As the streets once again fill with protesters eager to oust the president and Islamists determined to keep him in power, Egyptians are preparing for the worst: days or weeks of urba...

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

Civil-union opponents rejecting law

SAN FRANCISCO – Less than 24 hours after California started issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, lawyers for the sponsors of the state’s gay marriage ban filed an emergency motion ...

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

Gay marriage battles heat up

Activists to fight bans state-by-state

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

‘Into the Wild’ bus hikers rescued

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Three hikers, one slowed by an ankle injury, signaled a passing military helicopter with a mirror for rescue from the Alaska wilderness when they tried to reach a bus mad...

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

94 in Alaska? Abnormal weather tied to jet stream

WASHINGTON – Lately, the jet stream isn’t playing by the rules. Scientists say that big river of air high above Earth that dictates much of the weather for the Northern Hemisphere has been u...

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

Is online gun training OK?

States split on varying laws

DATE: Jun 28, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Man believes he found fossilized Bigfoot head

OGDEN, Utah (AP) – “I found a fossilized Bigfoot skull.” A journalist can go his or her entire life waiting to hear those six magic words. And yet, on a recent weekday afternoon, ...

DATE: Jun 28, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Permit upheld for Christo’s Arkansas River project

DENVER – An appeals board is upholding the Bureau of Land Management’s decision to grant the artist Christo a permit for his Over the River project, which involves temporarily suspending 5.9...

DATE: Jun 28, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Reading scores mixed in N.M.

SANTA FE – The state’s high school students improved their reading proficiency scores on standardized tests this year, but there were declines for students in grades 4-6, Gov. Susana Martine...

DATE: Jun 28, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World