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Immigration bill cruising to Senate passage

WASHINGTON – Far-reaching immigration legislation cruised toward passage in the Senate as House Republicans pushed ahead Wednesday on a different approach that cracks down on millions living...

DATE: Jun 26, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World Briefs

Popular Honduran TV journalist kidnapped TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – Police investigators say they’re searching for a popular television journalist in the northern Honduran city of Sa...

DATE: Jun 26, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Will Snowden join ranks of airport denizens?

LONDON – Amid the thousands of people passing through Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport, Edward Snowden is – if Russia’s government is to be believed – staying put. That makes his situation unus...

DATE: Jun 26, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Pentagon to extend benefits to gay service spouses

WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says the Pentagon will begin the process to extend health care, housing and other federal benefits to the same-sex spouses of military members as s...

DATE: Jun 26, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Supreme Court clears way for gay marriage in California

SAN FRANCISCO – A crowd at San Francisco City Hall applauded the news Wednesday that the U.S. Supreme Court had cleared the way for same-sex marriages to resume in California, but the reacti...

DATE: Jun 26, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Supreme Court rules Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional

WASHINGTON – In a historic victory for gay rights, the Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a provision of a federal law denying federal benefits to married gay couples and cleared the way...

DATE: Jun 26, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

For nationwide gay marriage, more battles to be fought

NEW YORK – Even as they celebrate a momentous legal victory, supporters of gay marriage already are anticipating a return trip to the Supreme Court in a few years, sensing that no other opti...

DATE: Jun 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation/World briefs

Reports underscore strengthening economy WASHINGTON – The U.S. housing recovery is strengthening. Factories are fielding more orders. And Americans’ confidence in the economy has ...

DATE: Jun 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Court changes historic voting act

Southern states no longer need federal oversight of elections

DATE: Jun 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Arab Idol champ urges Palestinians to unite

KHAN YOUNIS REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip – Palestinians have a new voice: a 23-year-old wedding singer from a Gaza refugee camp touted as a rare symbol of national unity after he won the Arab wo...

DATE: Jun 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World Briefs

Taliban attack shows militant spirit unbroken KABUL, Afghanistan – A Taliban attack at the gates of the Afghan presidential palace cast a cold light Tuesday on the course of a war...

DATE: Jun 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Putin says no to US request to turn over Snowden

MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin bluntly rejected U.S. pleas to turn over National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden on Tuesday, saying he is free to travel wherever he wants an...

DATE: Jun 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World