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Mass. man who ordered tie gets Social Security numbers instead

SAN FRANCISCO – With a little more than two weeks to go before their wedding, Emily Dreyfuss’ fiance ordered a tie and pocket square from Gap chain Banana Republic’s website to go with his N...

DATE: Jun 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

GOP leader warns of attacks on free speech

WASHINGTON – The Senate Republican leader, who last year accused the Obama administration of Nixon-style dirty tricks, said Friday the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative gr...

DATE: Jun 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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Lawmakers try to save student-loan deal WASHINGTON – A handful of senators struggled Thursday to hold together a bipartisan deal to keep student-loan rates from doubling July 1 wh...

DATE: Jun 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

33% of women suffer domestic violence

‘A global health problem of epidemic proportions’

DATE: Jun 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Numbers muddy discussion about NSA surveillance

WASHINGTON – Seeking to win over public trust, the Obama administration has been throwing around a lot of numbers as it tries to describe – in as much detail as possible without jeopardizing...

DATE: Jun 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

30 representatives call for reform to BLM horse budget

RENO, Nev. – Thirty U.S. representatives urged new U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell on Thursday to make a priority out of reforming the government’s wild horse management program and its...

DATE: Jun 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Christian group apologizes to gay community

The leader of Exodus International, a Christian ministry that worked to help people repress same-sex attraction, has apologized to the gay community for inflicting “years of undue suffering....

DATE: Jun 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

VA shows progress on backlog

WASHINGTON – The Veterans Affairs Department is chipping away at a massive inventory of disability claims for veterans, reducing the number of claims considered backlogged by about 13 percen...

DATE: Jun 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

EPA won’t confirm frack-pollution tie in Wyoming

CHEYENNE, Wyo. – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday it is abandoning its longstanding plan to have independent scientists confirm or cast doubt on its finding that h...

DATE: Jun 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama nominating Comey as FBI director

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Friday plans to nominate President George W. Bush’s former No. 2 at the Justice Department, James Comey, to lead the FBI as the agency grapples with pr...

DATE: Jun 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

All-women jury chosen for George Zimmerman’s trial

SANFORD, Fla. – A jury of six women was picked Thursday to decide the second-degree murder trial of George Zimmerman, a former neighborhood watch volunteer who says he fatally shot Trayvon M...

DATE: Jun 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. blames Apple at N.Y. trial for e-books price rise

NEW YORK – A Justice Department lawyer urged a judge Thursday to find that Apple Inc. conspired with publishers in 2010 to raise electronic book prices, while an attorney for the computer gi...

DATE: Jun 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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