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GM agrees to $35M fine

WASHINGTON – U.S. safety regulators fined General Motors a record $35 million Friday for taking at least a decade to disclose defects with ignition switches in small cars that are now linked...

DATE: May 16, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Arkansas court puts gay ruling on hold

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Arkansas’ highest court halted the distribution of marriage licenses to same-sex couples Friday as it suspended a judge’s ruling that struck down the state’s same-sex mar...

DATE: May 16, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Opposition to head India’s government

NEW DELHI – India’s opposition leader, Narendra Modi, will become the next prime minister of the world’s largest democracy, winning the most decisive election victory the country has seen in...

DATE: May 16, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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Turkey denies charges in mining disaster SOMA, Turkey – The Turkish government and mining company officials vehemently denied Friday that negligence was at the root of the countr...

DATE: May 16, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

No deal yet in Iran talks

VIENNA – An ambitious round of nuclear talks between Iran and six world powers ended Friday with serious setbacks, with a senior Iranian official saying the two sides are at odds on several ...

DATE: May 16, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

VA official resigns amid review WASHINGTON –The top official for veterans’ health care resigned Friday amid a firestorm over reported delays in care and falsified records at veter...

DATE: May 16, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Ready, set, travel

NEW YORK – A strong case of cabin fever and a little more money to spend should inspire a greater number of Americans to hit the road this Memorial Day weekend. That’s the forecas...

DATE: May 16, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Watergate conspirator Jeb Stuart Magruder has died

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Jeb Stuart Magruder, a Watergate conspirator who claimed in later years to have heard President Richard Nixon order the office break-in, has died. He was 79. Magr...

DATE: May 16, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

25 states see jobless rate slip below 6%

Colo.’s unemployment level lowest since recession began

DATE: May 16, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Immigration program to be reviewed, official says

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s new homeland security secretary is offering his first public hints at executive action the administration might take on immigration, suggesting changes ...

DATE: May 16, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Segregation still widespread at U.S. schools

Segregation is still widespread at American public schools, 60 years after the landmark Brown v. Topeka Board of Education ruling, a new report said. And it no longer impacts just...

DATE: May 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Cost-control plan could get costly

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration has given the go-ahead for insurers and employers to use a new cost-control strategy that puts a hard dollar limit on what health plans pay for some exp...

DATE: May 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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