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FBI: 3 removed backpack from Boston suspect’s room

BOSTON – Three college friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were arrested and accused Wednesday of removing a backpack containing fireworks emptied of gunpowder from ...

DATE: May 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

North Korea sentences American to 15 years’ labor

SEOUL, South Korea – An American detained for nearly six months in North Korea has been sentenced to 15 years of labor for crimes against the state, the North’s state media said today, a dev...

DATE: Apr 30, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Russia had elder Boston suspect under surveillance

MAKHACHKALA, Russia – Russian agents placed the elder Boston bombing suspect under surveillance during a six-month visit to southern Russia last year, then scrambled to find him when he sudd...

DATE: Apr 30, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama: U.S. not sure who used chemical weapons in Syria

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama strongly suggested Tuesday he’d consider military action against Syria if it can be confirmed that President Bashar Assad’s government used chemical weapo...

DATE: Apr 30, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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Venezuela lawmakers brawl amid tensions CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuela’s postelection tensions erupted into a brawl between lawmakers Tuesday night that left at least one oppositi...

DATE: Apr 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Uncle: Family to claim Boston bomb suspect’s body

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Relatives of the deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect will claim his body now that his wife has agreed to release it, an uncle said Tuesday. Tamerlan Tsarna...

DATE: Apr 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

Abortion doctor’s murder trial goes to Pa. jury PHILADELPHIA – A jury began weighing murder charges Tuesday against a doctor charged with killing five people, including four viabl...

DATE: Apr 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama vows again to close prison at Guantanamo Bay

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Tuesday renewed his pledge to close the prison for terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but the impediments that have thwarted him thus far rema...

DATE: Apr 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

With 1 week to go, Sanford subject of attacks

CHARLESTON, S.C. – Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford can’t seem to escape attacks on the extramarital affair that derailed his political career, which he hopes to revive in a special c...

DATE: Apr 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Bangladeshis turn rescuers after building collapse

SAVAR, Bangladesh – The heat in the rubble was sweltering. It closed in on his body like the darkness around him, making it hard to breathe. Working by the faint glow of a flashlight, he sli...

DATE: Apr 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Morning-after pill OK for ages 15 and older

WASHINGTON – The government Tuesday lowered to 15 the age at which girls can buy the morning-after pill without a prescription and said the emergency contraception no longer has to be kept b...

DATE: Apr 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Addressing chemical weapons, Obama hints at military action

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama signaled Tuesday he would consider U.S. military action against Syria if “hard, effective evidence” is found to bolster intelligence that chemical weapons...

DATE: Apr 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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