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Wyoming may bring back firing squads CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Prompted by the shortages of available drugs for lethal injections, Wyoming lawmakers are considering changing state law to p...

DATE: May 21, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Geography bee win fulfills teen’s dream

WASHINGTON – Akhil Rekulapelli has his life mapped out. The 14-year-old wants to attend Stanford University and become a doctor, probably a surgeon. But he knows it will be a whil...

DATE: May 21, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Get in the swim of things

Only 56 percent of adults who say they can swim can perform five critical water-safety skills that could save their lives, according to a new American Red Cross survey. Competency...

DATE: May 21, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

House Democrats to participate in Benghazi probe

WASHINGTON – House Democrats will participate in the special, Republican-led select committee investigating the deadly 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, despite serious concerns within the par...

DATE: May 21, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

BP to ask Supreme Court to hear claims issue

NEW ORLEANS – BP PLC said Wednesday it will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether businesses must prove they were directly harmed by the 2010 Gulf Of Mexico oil spill to collect payme...

DATE: May 21, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

McConnel beats back challenger in primary race

WASHINGTON – Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell dispatched his tea party challenger with ease Tuesday night, and Democrats turned to two women, Alison Lundergan Grimes to oppose him in...

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

World Briefs

Two car bombings kill scores in Nigeria JOS, Nigeria – Two car bombs exploded at a bustling bus terminal and market in Nigeria’s central city of Jos on Tuesday, killing at least 1...

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

Disease feared after floods

SAMAC, Bosnia-Herzegovina – A new calamity emerged Tuesday in the flood-hit Balkans as rescue workers battled overflowing rivers – and were confronted by wastelands of drowned livestock. ...

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

Hackers used old tricks in cyberbreak-ins

WASHINGTON – The victims were their own worst enemies. The hacking techniques the U.S. government says China used against American companies turned out to be disappointingly mund...

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

Nation Briefs

White House to reveal memo on drones WASHINGTON – On the eve of a critical Senate vote and under court order, the Obama administration signaled it will publicly reveal a secret me...

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

Military takes over in Thailand

BANGKOK – Thailand’s powerful military chief intervened Tuesday for the first time in the country’s latest political crisis, declaring martial law and dispatching gun-mounted jeeps into the ...

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

Judge tosses out Pennsylvania gay-marriage ban

PHILADELPHIA – Pennsylvania’s ban on gay marriage was overturned by a federal judge Tuesday in a decision that legalized same-sex unions throughout the Northeast and sent couples racing to p...

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

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