Nation & World

Astronomers declare comet dead

The comet, which excited astronomers and the media as it zipped within 730,000 miles of the sun on Thanksgiving Day,…

December 12, 2013

Federal agency shuts 52 unsafe bus companies

The companies aren’t just low-cost, fly-by-night carriers – some have transported school bands, Boy Scouts or senior citizens, according to…

December 12, 2013

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FCC: Lift ban on in-flight calls. DOT: Not so fast

Although Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler believes his agency should allow airlines to decide whether or not to allow…

December 12, 2013

Nation & World

Senate poised for talkathon over Obama nominees

Federal Housing Finance Authority Director nominee Rep. Mel Watt, D-N.C., listens as President Barack Obama announces his nomination to head…

December 11, 2013

Nation & World

Cooling pump on space station shuts down

In this frame grab from video provided by NASA, two Russian flight engineers perform maintenance on the International Space Station…

December 11, 2013

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Russia may answer conventional attack with nuclear weapons

A Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile is launched from the northern Plesetsk cosmodrome in Russia. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin…

December 11, 2013

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Nation Briefs

NEW YORK – Time magazine selected Pope Francis as its Person of the Year on Wednesday, saying the Catholic Church’s…

December 11, 2013

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World Briefs

BEIRUT – The U.S. and Britain said Wednesday they were suspending deliveries to rebels in northern Syria of nonlethal aid…

December 11, 2013

Nation & World

Health-care signups still lagging

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is asking her department’s inspector general to investigate her department’s management and contracting…

December 11, 2013

Nation & World

Handshake GOP for Castro comments

“There used to be a pretty important principle that originated in the Republican Party, I believe, that partisan politics should…

December 11, 2013

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U.S. general: Afghan pullout could reverse gains

But Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the U.S. has no plans to reopen…

December 11, 2013

Nation & World

Budget deal offers stability to Pentagon spending

The agreement eases some of the pain of the automatic, across-the-board spending cuts that past and current defense secretaries, senior…

December 11, 2013

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Public approval of Obama continues to fall

Poll: Large percentage of Americans unhappy with Congress

December 11, 2013

Nation & World

Interpreter’s signing blasted as ‘gibberish’

Advocates for the deaf say the sign language interpreter who was on stage Tuesday with President Barack Obama and other…

December 11, 2013

Nation & World

NSA chief: Surveillance programs necessary

‘There’s no other way to connect the dots’

December 10, 2013

Nation & World

Police clash with protesters in Ukrainian capital

Ukrainian riot police storm pro-European Union activists gathered in their tent camps on the Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday.…

December 10, 2013

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Cobalt-60 finally removed from Mexican cornfield

Juan Eibenschutz, director general of the National Commission of Nuclear Safety and Safeguards, said a robot was used to scoop…

December 10, 2013

Nation & World

European probe on course for comet rendezvous

An artist’s rendering shows the European Space Agency’s Rosetta space probe in space. The space agency hopes to launch a…

December 10, 2013

Nation & World

Lawmakers push to set record straight on Nazi atrocity

That is starting to change. Last year, black Marines who served during World War II, named Montford Point Marines after…

December 10, 2013

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World Briefs

BANGKOK — The head of Thailand’s protest movement on Tuesday extended his extraordinary claims to holding power over government activities,…

December 10, 2013

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Nation Briefs

BOSTON – Democrat Katherine Clark has defeated three opponents to win a special election to fill a vacant Massachusetts congressional…

December 10, 2013

Nation & World

Gunmen kill two French troopers

French President Francois Hollande says deploying French troops to the Central African Republic is necessary to help the country avoid…

December 10, 2013

Nation & World

Egypt’s Moussa defends draft charter

Amr Moussa, the chairman of Egypt’s 50-member panel tasked with amending its Islamist-drafted constitution, says he believes the group’s proposed…

December 10, 2013

Nation & World

Justices hear environmental case

members agree cross-border pollution issue is complex, tough

December 10, 2013