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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

VA chief rejects calls to resign

WASHINGTON – New complaints about long wait lists and falsified patient appointment reports have surfaced at Veterans Affairs hospitals and clinics across the country, the department’s inter...

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

World Briefs

Yemen to expand al-Qaida offensives SANAA, Yemen – Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi says his country is an “open war” with al-Qaida as one of the country’s largest offensi...

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

Japan re-examining pacifist constitution

TOKYO – Citing threats from China and North Korea, a government-appointed panel is urging Japan to reinterpret its pacifist constitution to allow the use of military force to defend other co...

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

Anti-China protest turns deadly

HANOI, Vietnam – A 1,000-strong mob stormed a Taiwanese steel mill in Vietnam and hunted down Chinese workers, killing one, attacking scores more and then setting the complex afire, Taiwanes...

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

Nation Briefs

Military releases report on sex case discipline WASHINGTON – The U.S. military says it fired or disciplined nearly 500 workers for sexual harassment in a 12-month period, and near...

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

Judge strikes all Arkansas bans on gay marriage

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – An Arkansas judge has struck down all state laws preventing gay couples from marrying, expanding on his order finding such bans unconstitutional. Pulaski Count...

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

Museum revisits Sept. 11

NEW YORK – Tears in her eyes, firefighter widow Maureen Fanning emerged Thursday from the new Sept. 11 museum deep beneath ground zero, unable to bring herself to look at all of it. ...

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

Obama orders review in wake of VA claims

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is dispatching one of his closest White House advisers to oversee a review of the beleaguered Veterans Affairs Department as the agency grapples with alle...

DATE: May 14, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

Arkansas justices let gay ruling stand LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The Arkansas Supreme Court refused Wednesday to put on hold a ruling that overturned the state’s constitutional ban on g...

DATE: May 14, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World Brief

Kerry trying to keep peace effort alive LONDON – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry worked Wednesday to keep the Palestinians committed to his hope of restarting Mideast peace tal...

DATE: May 14, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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