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U.S. says Syria used chemical weapons WASHINGTON – The White House declared Thursday that U.S. intelligence indicates Syrian President Bashar Assad has twice used deadly chemical ...

DATE: Apr 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Boston suspects planned to attack NYC

NEW YORK – The Boston Marathon bombers were headed for New York’s Times Square to blow up the rest of their explosives, authorities said Thursday, in what they portrayed as a chilling, spur-...

DATE: Apr 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Senate advances bill to tax Internet sales

WASHINGTON – The Senate moved closer Thursday to passing a bill to tax purchases made over the Internet. But a final vote in the Senate was delayed until senators return from a weeklong vaca...

DATE: Apr 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Police: Boston suspects planned to attack New York

NEW YORK – The Boston Marathon bombers were headed for New York to blow up their remaining explosives in Times Square when they were intercepted by police in a blazing gunbattle, officials s...

DATE: Apr 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Presidents praise George W. Bush at new library

DALLAS – Presidents past and present lionized one of their own Thursday, putting politics aside as President George W. Bush dedicated the library that documents his place in history. Preside...

DATE: Apr 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Tourists swim for 14 hours after boat sinks

Fishing boat goes under in Caribbean

DATE: Apr 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Buried workers cry for rescue

SAVAR, Bangladesh – “Save us, brother. I beg you, brother,” Mohammad Altab moaned to the rescuers who could not help him. He had been trapped for more than 24 hours, pinned between slabs of ...

DATE: Apr 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Russia contacted U.S. twice about Boston bomber

WASHINGTON – Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss says the Russians contacted the U.S. twice about Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the men authorities say was behind the Boston Marathon attacks. ...

DATE: Apr 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Cautious relief in Midwest as river levels fall

PEORIA HEIGHTS, Ill. – Slowly retreating floodwaters gave Midwesterners some hope Wednesday that the worst was over, but many worried that the earthen and days-old sandbag levees along the I...

DATE: Apr 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Suspect described plot before rights read

CIA had named older brother to terrorist database

DATE: Apr 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

Mississippi men’s feud looms over ricin probe OXFORD, Miss. – The investigation into poisoned letters mailed to President Barack Obama and others has shifted from an Elvis imperso...

DATE: Apr 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Redesigned $100 bill to begin circulating this fall

WASHINGTON – The Federal Reserve announced Wednesday that it will begin circulating a redesigned $100 bill this fall, more than two years after its initial target. The Fed has set...

DATE: Apr 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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