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Woman describes Berlusconi’s parties MILAN – Silvio Berlusconi’s private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but one wom...

DATE: May 17, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Photo exhibit ignites outrage

NEW YORK – In one photo, a woman is on all fours, presumably picking something up, her posterior pressed against a glass window. Another photo shows a couple in bathrobes, their feet touchin...

DATE: May 17, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

Talking jobs, Obama tries to leave troubles behind BALTIMORE – President Barack Obama tried Friday to leave behind the political battles that have overshadowed his second-term age...

DATE: May 17, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Treasury told of IRS probe in ’12

WASHINGTON – Senior Treasury officials were made aware in June 2012 that investigators were looking into complaints from tea-party groups that they were being harassed by the Internal Revenu...

DATE: May 17, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Hagel orders retraining for sex-abuse prevention

WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Friday ordered the military to recertify all 25,000 people involved in programs designed to prevent and respond to sexual assault, an acknowledg...

DATE: May 17, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Ousted IRS chief regrets treatment of tea party

WASHINGTON – The ousted head of the Internal Revenue Service apologized to Congress on Friday for his agency’s tougher treatment of tea party and other conservative groups seeking tax-exempt...

DATE: May 17, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama to tap Daniel Werfel as acting IRS head

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama will appoint senior White House budget officer Daniel Werfel to be acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, a White House official says. ...

DATE: May 16, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Texas tornado winds believed to be up to 200 mph

GRANBURY, Texas – Forecasters say the tornado that claimed six lives and destroyed dozens of homes in North Texas is believed to have had winds up to 200 mph. The National Weather...

DATE: May 16, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Dying man’s eye blinks lead to Ohio murder verdict

CINCINNATI – An Ohio man was found guilty Thursday of fatally shooting a man who authorities say identified his assailant by blinking his eyes while paralyzed and hooked up to a ventilator. ...

DATE: May 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Emotional day of testimony in Arias trial

PHOENIX – Jurors deciding whether convicted murderer Jodi Arias will get the death penalty heard the victim’s brother describe Thursday how he was hospitalized for ulcers, lost sleep and sep...

DATE: May 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama picks budget official to run troubled IRS

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama picked a senior White House budget official to become the acting head of the Internal Revenue Service on Thursday, the same day another top official annou...

DATE: May 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Cyclone Mahasen fizzles as it hits Bangladesh

COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh – Cyclone Mahasan weakened Thursday afternoon into a tropical storm and then dissipated, causing far less damage than had been feared as it passed over Bangladesh and...

DATE: May 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World