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IRS manager says he ordered targeting WASHINGTON  A self-described conservative Republican who is a manager in the Internal Revenue Service office that targeted tea-party gr...

DATE: Jun 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Intelligence chief defends Internet spying program

WASHINGTON  Eager to quell a domestic furor over U.S. spying, the nations top intelligence official said Saturday that a previously undisclosed program for tapping into Internet ...

DATE: Jun 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Privacy? Security? What do we want?

It’s time to choose how much surveillance is OK

DATE: Jun 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

‘Out of the closets, into the streets’

In 50 years, huge strides made in gay-rights movement

DATE: Jun 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama meets with Chinese leader in Calif.

Expresses concerns about cybersecurity

DATE: Jun 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Police: Calif. killings were planned

Santa Monica gunman was ready to fire 1,300 rounds

DATE: Jun 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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Louisiana Missing teachers car found; decomposed body inside NEW ORLEANS  Authorities pulled a missing teachers car from a New Orleans bayou Saturday ...

DATE: Jun 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nuclear plants closing in weak industry

LOS ANGELES  The decision to close Californias San Onofre nuclear plant is the latest setback for an industry that seemed poised for growth not long ago. In Wisconsin,...

DATE: Jun 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Dwarfism doesn’t deter Mass. man from athletics

NORTH ANDOVER, Mass.  If you want to get John Young to do something, just tell him he cant do it  because hell probably make up his mind that he will do it and succee...

DATE: Jun 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

2,500-year-old mummy gets cleaned at Boston hospital

BOSTON  A 2,500-year-old Egyptian mummy named Padihershef came out of his coffin Friday to go to the hospital. Well, actually, he had already been there for a while. ...

DATE: Jun 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Body may be missing Iowa teenager

DAYTON, Iowa  Residents of a small central Iowa city and its surrounding communities said Saturday theyre saddened at the discovery of a body in a river believed to be that of a ...

DATE: Jun 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World