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Russia counters U.S., bans 18 Americans MOSCOW  Russia on Saturday banned 18 Americans from entering the country in response to Washington imposing sanctions on 18 Russians ...

DATE: Apr 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

N. Korea issue unites U.S., China

2 world powers agree to rid the country of its nukes program

DATE: Apr 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Police grapple with cybercrime

WASHINGTON  If a purse with $900 is stolen, the victim probably would call the police. If a computer hacker steals $900 from that same persons bank account, what then? Call the p...

DATE: Apr 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Cartel racehorse case goes to trial

HOUSTON  One of Mexicos most powerful and violent drug cartels intended a racehorse-buying operation to be a clandestine means of laundering its illegal proceeds in the United St...

DATE: Apr 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Texas rethinking testing, curriculum standards

AUSTIN, Texas  The federal No Child Left Behind law was born in Texas, and billionaire Ross Perot first rallied big business to support tougher standardized testing and high school gra...

DATE: Apr 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

South African creature shows evolution in action

Ancestor mixed human and apelike traits

DATE: Apr 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Soviet Mars craft may be found

LOS ANGELES  Space fans from Russia scanning NASA images have spotted what may be a Soviet spacecraft that landed on Mars in 1971 and then mysteriously stopped working. Pho...

DATE: Apr 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Rise of anti-Thatcher tune challenges BBC

LONDON  Opponents of the late Margaret Thatcher are taking a kind of musical revenge on the former prime minister, pushing the song Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead up the Brit...

DATE: Apr 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Auction of Hopi masks decried

Paris sale includes dozens of artifacts with religious significance

DATE: Apr 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

Obama earns less in 2012, pays $112,000 in taxes WASHINGTON  President Barack Obama made less in 2012 than in any other year since taking office, with about 40 percent of th...

DATE: Apr 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. says North Korea’s nuclear firepower limited

Likelihood of missile launch is strong, defense official says

DATE: Apr 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Bipartisan bill would ease state-federal marijuana conflict

SEATTLE  A bill introduced Friday in Congress would fix the conflict between the federal governments marijuana prohibition and state laws that allow medical or recreational use. ...

DATE: Apr 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World