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Source: Obama may be near decision on job

Acting Secret Service chief may stay on at agency

DATE: Feb 13, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Same-sex marriages spread in Alabama

More counties start issuing licenses

DATE: Feb 13, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama seeks public’s help on cybersecurity

PALO ALTO, Calif. – Cyberspace is the new “wild West,” President Barack Obama said Friday, with everyone looking to the government to be the sheriff. But he said the private sector must do ...

DATE: Feb 13, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

New storm heads for New England

BOSTON – Exasperated New Englanders still digging out from three major storms that left 6 feet or more of snow in many areas are bracing for what’s expected to be another punishing blast of ...

DATE: Feb 13, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

Oregon governor says he will quit post SALEM, Ore. – Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber resigned Friday, giving in to mounting pressure to abandon his office amid suspicions that his fian...

DATE: Feb 13, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Spontaneous social norms emerge in naming

Two to three decades ago, parents couldn’t get enough of the names “Jessica” and “Jennifer” for their little newborn girls. They had been mainstays on the Social Security Administration’s to...

DATE: Feb 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

West will get hotter, drier

Decades-long ‘megadroughts’ predicted for region

DATE: Feb 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Leaders OK Ukraine cease-fire

MINSK, Belarus – A cease-fire and an overall compact to end the war in eastern Ukraine were announced here Thursday by the leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine after marathon overn...

DATE: Feb 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation & World Briefs

Alabama county ends marriage ban MOBILE, Ala. – An attorney for a gay couple says they have received a marriage license in an Alabama county that had earlier refused to grant it ...

DATE: Feb 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Alabama county’s refusal to wed gays goes to federal court

MOBILE, Ala. – A federal judge in Alabama should make it “crystal clear” that gay marriages should be allowed across the state, an attorney for same-sex couples said Thursday. U.S...

DATE: Feb 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Senate confirms Obama’s pick for Pentagon chief

WASHINGTON – The Senate on Thursday confirmed President Barack Obama’s choice to run the Pentagon, handing Ash Carter the unenviable task of steering the military as the United States confro...

DATE: Feb 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Fewer reported sex assaults at military schools

WASHINGTON – A new Pentagon report says the number of reported sexual assaults involving students at three military service academies went down in the most recent school year. The results ...

DATE: Feb 11, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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