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Tropical Storm Andrea pounds parts of Florida

MIAMI – The first named storm of the Atlantic season hammered Florida with rain, heavy winds, and tornadoes Thursday as it moved over land toward the coast of Georgia and the Carolinas, prom...

DATE: Jun 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

China fossils suggest tiny, hyperactive ancient primates

WASHINGTON — New fossil evidence of the earliest complete skeleton of an ancient primate suggests it was a hyperactive, wide-eyed creature so small you could hold a couple of them in your ha...

DATE: Jun 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

New Zealand driver, 105: ‘I don’t think I’m old’

NGATAKI, New Zealand – Bob Edwards was born before the first Model T rolled out of Henry Ford’s factory in Detroit. He learned to drive in a French car that had a lever instead of a steering...

DATE: Jun 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Judge’s ruling challenges U.S. transplant system

Children awaiting lung transplants put on adult list

DATE: Jun 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Officials: Car bombs kill 14 in Iraq

BAGHDAD – A series of car-bomb explosions in and around Baghdad killed 14 people including seven policemen Thursday, police officials said, adding that dozens were wounded. The of...

DATE: Jun 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

House votes to resume deporting immigrants WASHINGTON – The Republican-controlled House voted Thursday to resume the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought ill...

DATE: Jun 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World Briefs

Russian president Putin and wife plan to divorce MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin and his wife, Lyudmila announced Thursday they are divorcing after nearly 30 years of ma...

DATE: Jun 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Phone-records monitoring extent exposed

WASHINGTON – A leaked document has laid bare the monumental scope of the government’s surveillance of Americans’ phone records – hundreds of millions of calls – in the first hard evidence of...

DATE: Jun 5, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Rice tapped as security adviser

Appointment doesn’t need Senate OK

DATE: Jun 5, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Committee passes bill to address sexual assaults

WASHINGTON – A House committee is responding to the growing number of sexual assaults in the armed forces by stripping military commanders of their authority to reverse convictions in rape a...

DATE: Jun 5, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World Briefs

Vigilantes, police kill three cartel suspects MORELIA, Mexico – Three suspected drug-gang gunmen were killed in a confrontation with community self-defense squads and federal poli...

DATE: Jun 5, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

U.S. soldier pleads guilty in Afghan massacre JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. – The American soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians, many of them women and children who we...

DATE: Jun 5, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World