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After Albuquerque incident, Whole Foods revises policy

ALBUQUERQUE – Facing threats of national boycotts from Latino groups and a slew of online petitions, Whole Foods announced Friday that the organic grocery chain has revised its employee lang...

DATE: Jun 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World Briefs

NSA leaker Snowden not welcome in the UK LONDON – The British government has warned airlines around the world not to allow Edward Snowden, who leaked information on top-secret U.S...

DATE: Jun 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Iran’s battered reformers seek election rebound

Strong turnout suggests liberals did not stay home

DATE: Jun 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Judge delays remedies in Arpaio profiling case

PHOENIX – A federal judge who ruled an Arizona sheriff’s office racially profiled Latinos delayed instituting remedies Friday to allow parties time to agree on options, but he indicated a co...

DATE: Jun 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Flag-bearing skydivers swoop into Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA – Dozens of children at the National Constitution Center craned their necks in unison Friday and began cheering as five skydivers bearing enormous American flags leaped from a s...

DATE: Jun 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Commander of Nazi-led unit lives in U.S.

BERLIN – A top commander of a Nazi SS-led unit accused of burning villages filled with women and children lied to American immigration officials to get into the United States and has been li...

DATE: Jun 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

EU gets deal on trans-Atlantic trade pact mandate

LUXEMBOURG – The European Union worked around French objections on Friday to agree on a free trade negotiating mandate for sweeping talks with the United States that President Barack Obama w...

DATE: Jun 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Whey from N.Y.’s Greek yogurt used to produce power

ALBANY, N.Y. – The Greek yogurt boom in New York is being harnessed to make electricity. More Greek yogurt production has meant more whey, a watery byproduct from the process. Yog...

DATE: Jun 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

3 more deaths blamed on East Coast storm WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Three additional deaths in North Carolina are being blamed on the massive storm system that started in the Upper M...

DATE: Jun 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. to arm Syrian rebels

President Barack Obama’s decision to begin arming Syria’s rebels deepens U.S. involvement in a regional proxy war that is increasingly being fought along sectarian lines, pitting Sunni again...

DATE: Jun 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

GOP House passes $638B defense bill

Must mesh with Senate version before being signed

DATE: Jun 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

House revises abortion bill after rape controversy

WASHINGTON – House Republicans have modified a tough anti-abortion bill to include exceptions for rape and incest after the GOP sponsor of the legislation raised a firestorm by declaring tha...

DATE: Jun 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World