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Iraqi lawmakers urged to pick new leader

BAGHDAD – Iraq’s top Shiite cleric ratcheted up the pressure Friday on lawmakers to agree on a prime minister before the newly elected parliament meets next week, trying to avert months of w...

DATE: Jun 27, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation & World Briefs

Chiropractic school must accept blind IOWA CITY, Iowa – The Iowa Supreme Court ordered the nation’s leading chiropractic college on Friday to make accommodations to allow blind st...

DATE: Jun 27, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Golden Gate Bridge suicide barrier funding OK’d

SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco’s iconic Golden Gate Bridge moved a big step closer to getting an oft-debated suicide barrier after bridge officials on Friday approved a $76 million funding pa...

DATE: Jun 27, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Soldier’s story shows tragedy of World War I

NIEUWKERKE, Belgium – In a neatly clipped corner of the Westhof Farm Cemetery, an Australian family huddled around Pvt. Andrew Bayne’s grave. One century after the start of World War I, the ...

DATE: Jun 27, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

New push to get girls interested in computer sciences

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Diana Navarro loves to code, and she’s not afraid to admit it. But the 18-year-old Rutgers University computer science major knows she’s an anomaly: Writing software ...

DATE: Jun 27, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. moving to end its use of land mines

The Obama administration on Friday announced measures to reduce and eventually eliminate its stockpile of antipersonnel land mines, with the aim of joining the global treaty that prohibits t...

DATE: Jun 27, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama rips GOP in election-year economic salvo

MINNEAPOLIS – Blasting the GOP as wilfully indifferent to American struggles, President Barack Obama issued a rebuke Friday to Republican attempts to thwart his economic agenda, offering a s...

DATE: Jun 27, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. population growth tilts toward Asians

Slowing Hispanic immigration and birth rates are shifting the United States’ growth toward Asians, the Census Bureau reported Thursday. For the second consecutive year, net immigr...

DATE: Jun 26, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

Watergate-era senator, ex-majority leader dies WASHINGTON – Former Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr., who cut to the core of the 1973 Watergate hearings when he asked, “What did the pres...

DATE: Jun 26, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

High court tosses abortion-protest law

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a 35-foot protest-free zone outside abortion clinics in Massachusetts. The justices were unanimous in ruling that extending ...

DATE: Jun 26, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Sodexo cafeteria workers to regain health coverage

WASHINGTON – A giant food service company unexpectedly backtracked Thursday after bumping thousands of college cafeteria workers from its health plan and casting blame on President Barack Ob...

DATE: Jun 26, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Pressure grows for al-Maliki to step down

BAGHDAD – Prominent Shiite leaders pushed Thursday for the removal of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki as parliament prepared to start work next week on putting together a new government...

DATE: Jun 26, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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