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Malaysia identifies poison in slaying

Deadly nerve agent’s use raises concerns

DATE: Feb 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Iraq seeking money, aid to restore artifacts

PARIS – For the roomful of archaeologists, scholars and Iraqi cultural officials on Friday, each neighborhood conquered in Mosul brought them one step closer to learning the fate of the anci...

DATE: Feb 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

NASA studies manned test of new rocket

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA is weighing the risk of adding astronauts to the first flight of its new megarocket, designed to eventually send crews to Mars. The space agency’s huma...

DATE: Feb 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Judge puts limit on Cosby trial testimony

PHILADELPHIA – In a major break for Bill Cosby, a judge ruled Friday that just one of the comedian’s multitude of accusers can testify at his trial to bolster charges he drugged and violated...

DATE: Feb 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Professor has taken ‘selfie’ every day for 30 years

BOSTON – Long before they were called selfies, Karl Baden snapped a simple black-and-white photo of himself. Then he repeated it, every day, for the next three decades. Baden’s “E...

DATE: Feb 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Sharp vision: New glasses help the legally blind see

SAN FRANCISCO – Jeff Regan was born with underdeveloped optic nerves and had spent most of his life in a blur. Then four years ago, he put on an unwieldy headset made by a Toronto company ca...

DATE: Feb 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Poll: GOP should keep money for Medicaid expansion

WASHINGTON – Add Medicaid expansion to the list of Obama-era health care provisions that Americans want to keep. A new poll finds that 8 in 10 say lawmakers should preserve federal funding t...

DATE: Feb 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Conservatives urged to ‘stick together’

Chief of staff says Trump victory offers GOP ‘incredible opportunity’

DATE: Feb 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

End of transgender bathroom rule gets conservative praise

WASHINGTON – Conservatives are praising the Trump administration’s rollback of public school bathroom requirements for transgender students, saying the move corrects a legal overreach by the...

DATE: Feb 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump administration rolls back protections for transgender students

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration on Wednesday revoked federal protections for transgender students who sought the right to use the public school restrooms that match their gender identi...

DATE: Feb 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump aides to try to ease Mexico’s fears

MEXICO CITY – President Donald Trump is sending his top diplomat and homeland security chief to Mexico on a fence-mending mission made all the more challenging by the actual fence he wants t...

DATE: Feb 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World