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Park Service moves to ban use of drones

WASHINGTON – The National Park Service is taking steps to ban drones from 84 million acres of public lands and waterways, saying the unmanned aircraft annoy visitors, harass wildlife and thr...

DATE: Jun 20, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Doctors Without Borders: Ebola ‘out of control’

DAKAR, Senegal – The Ebola outbreak ravaging West Africa is “totally out of control,” according to a senior official for Doctors Without Borders, who says the medical group is stretched to t...

DATE: Jun 20, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Energetic stock market pushes toward milestones

NEW YORK – The U.S. stock market is back to setting records. After treading water for most of March and April, stocks are nudging deeper into record territory and are closing in o...

DATE: Jun 20, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Rare 1856 stamp sets record at New York City auction

NEW YORK – A 1-cent postage stamp from a 19th century British colony in South America has become the world’s most valuable stamp – again. The 1856 British Guiana One-Cent Magenta ...

DATE: Jun 20, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Ukraine begins one-week cease-fire

KIEV, Ukraine – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko ordered his forces to cease fire Friday and halt military operations for seven days against pro-Russia separatists in the country’s east ...

DATE: Jun 20, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

VA exec defends bonus policies

WASHINGTON – Nearly 80 percent of senior executives at the Department of Veterans Affairs got performance bonuses last year despite widespread treatment delays and preventable deaths at VA h...

DATE: Jun 20, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

GOP’s McCarthy wins House majority leader post

WASHINGTON – Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California, a former aide elected to Congress in his own right less than eight years ago, won election as House majority leader Thursday as fellow Republi...

DATE: Jun 19, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation & World Briefs

New York moves to OK medical marijuana ALBANY, N.Y. – New York is set to become the 23rd state to legalize medical marijuana under an agreement announced by legislative leaders Th...

DATE: Jun 19, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

CIA had devilish plan for bin Laden doll

The CIA once considered a 12-inch, red-faced, devil-eyed action figure of Osama bin Laden to spook U.S. families into hating the al-Qaeda leader. But the government-contracted demon doll nev...

DATE: Jun 19, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. sending military advisers to Iraq

WASHINGTON – Edging back into a military role in Iraq, President Barack Obama on Thursday said he was dispatching up to 300 military advisers to help quell the rising insurgency in the crumb...

DATE: Jun 19, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Turmoil in Iraq is pushing up U.S. gasoline prices

Violence in Iraq is helping to make gasoline in the U.S. more expensive, depriving drivers of the usual price break between Memorial Day and July Fourth. Global oil prices have ri...

DATE: Jun 19, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama, Congress discuss options in Iraq

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama believes he does not need authorization from Congress for any steps he might take to quell the al-Qaida-inspired insurgency sweeping through Iraq, the Sen...

DATE: Jun 18, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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