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Nation & World Briefs

May 20, 2013 4:00 am

— From wire reportsPakistan election — Pakistan held a repeat election Sunday in an upscale area of the southern city of Karachi that was plagued with allegations of vote-rigging, despite the shooting death of a senior member of former....MORE

Today

May 20, 2013 4:00 am

It's Monday, May 20, the 140th day of 2013. There are 225 days left in the year. HistoryHighlight: In 1927, Charles Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, N. Y., aboard the Spirit of St. Louis on his historic solo flight to France. In....MORE

Rare old torpedo found by unusual divers

May 20, 2013 4:00 am

SAN DIEGO — In the ocean off Coronado, a Navy team has discovered a relic worthy of display in a military museum: a torpedo of the kind deployed in the late 19th century, considered a technological marvel in its day. But don’t look for....MORE

Obama Controversies

Aide rejects allegations

May 20, 2013 4:00 am

A senior adviser to President Barack Obama mounted a combative defense of the administration Sunday, saying that the controversies enveloping the White House were the result of Republican lawmakers trying to “drag Washington into a swamp of....MORE

Editor's choice

Records offer rare glimpse of leak probe

May 20, 2013 4:00 am

WASHINGTON— When the Justice Department began investigating possible leaks of classified information about North Korea in 2009, investigators did more than obtain telephone records of a working journalist suspected of receiving the secret....MORE

A large aquifer on its last legs

May 20, 2013 4:00 am

HASKELL COUNTY, Kan. — Forty-nine years ago, Ashley Yost’s grandfather sank a well deep into a half-mile square of rich Kansas farmland. He struck an artery of water so prodigious that he could pump 1,600 gallons to the surface every....MORE

Plank by plank, infamous cabin gets a new home

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

EDISTO ISLAND, S. C. — The floors creaked. The walls swayed in a strong breeze. Rot and termites had destroyed parts of the rickety structure built before the Civil War. But when curators from the Smithsonian's new African-American history....MORE

In Obama’s style, seeing a paradox

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

President Barack Obama’s professed ignorance of the targeting of conservatives by one government agency and his support of tracking journalists’ sources by another highlight one of the great paradoxes of his presidency: Sometimes he....MORE

Impasse in Salem

Sticking point: PERS

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

SALEM — The political talking points coming from both sides of the aisle ring familiar: Both parties want to see a more robust education budget and each blames the other for the inability to strike a grand bargain. On Friday, Oregon Democratic....MORE

Today

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

It's Sunday, May 19, the 139th day of 2013. There are 226 days left in the year. HistoryHighlight: In 1943, in his second wartime address to the U. S. Congress, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill pledged his country's full support in the fight....MORE

In perspective

What are the odds? For Powerball, abysmal

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

With the majority of possible combinations of Powerball numbers in play, someone is almost sure to win the game's highest jackpot, a windfall of hundreds of millions of dollars — and that's after taxes. The problem, of course, is those same....MORE

Nation & World Briefs

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

Train accident — The commuter train derailment and collision that left dozens injured in Connecticut was not the result of foul play, officials said Saturday, but a fractured section of rail is being studied to determine if it is connected to....MORE

News Q&A

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

Q: There have been numerous reports about shortages of various types of ammunition. Is it possible this shortage is related to the billions of rounds of ammo purchased by the Department of Homeland Security?A: Several members of Congress, including....MORE

Washington Week

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

WASHINGTON — The Senate unanimously confirmed Ernest Moniz as the next Secretary of Energy on Thursday. President Barack Obama nominated Moniz, a professor of physics and engineering systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to....MORE

Yesterday

State cracks down on gambling, liquor in 1913

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

Compiled by Don Hoiness from archived copies of The Bulletin at the Des Chutes Historical Museum.100 YEARS AGOFor the week endingMay 18, 1913Metolius case is discussedIn discussing Governor West’s action in closing Metolius’ one saloon,....MORE

Farman discovered hole in ozone layer

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

Joseph Farman, a British researcher whose single-minded and at times officially derided study of atmospheric changes in the Antarctic established the existence of a hole in the ozone layer over the South Pole approximately the size of the United....MORE

Today's read: Interviewing the tax agents

At Cincinnati IRS office, confusion amid a growing caseload

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

In summer 2010, the dozen or so accountants and tax agents of Group 7822 of the Internal Revenue Service office in Cincinnati got a directive from their manager. A growing number of organizations identifying themselves as part of the “tea....MORE

In focus: Art theft

Growth industry: chasing purloined Picassos at the FBI

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

WASHINGTON — Stored inside a laptop at FBI headquarters are photos of thousands of paintings, sculptures and artifacts, works by Vincent Van Gogh and Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Paul Cezanne — international treasures worth millions....MORE

Health

Is migrating to America bad for you?

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

A growing body of mortality research on immigrants has shown that the longer they live in this country, the worse their rates of heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes. And while their American-born children may have more money, they tend to ....MORE

Assad won’t budge

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

BEIRUT — Syrian President Bashar Assad, in a rare interview with a foreign newspaper, appeared to dismiss the possibility of serious progress arising from peace talks planned for next month, and to back away from earlier statements by Syrian....MORE

In focus: Benefits backlog

Vietnam veterans’ new battle: getting disability compensation

May 18, 2013 4:00 am

LOS ANGELES — Vietnam veteran John Otte did his best to forget the war. He got married, raised two sons and made a career working at credit unions. But as Otte neared retirement, memories of combat flooded back. Starting in 2005, he filed a....MORE

Syrian group claims role in newspaper hacking

May 18, 2013 4:00 am

The website and several Twitter accounts belonging to The Financial Times were hacked Friday by the Syrian Electronic Army in an ongoing campaign that has targeted an array of media outlets ranging from The Associated Press to the parody site The....MORE

Need to know

Rising seas a new reality for many

May 18, 2013 4:00 am

PHILADELPHIA — The night Meghan Wren got stranded by floodwaters and had to sleep in her car, she knew it was time for a reckoning. She had been driving to her waterfront home along the Delaware Bay in South Jersey. As she crossed the wide....MORE

Today's read: Back from the brink

Once thought extinct, big trout is recovering

May 18, 2013 4:00 am

PYRAMID LAKE, Nev. — Hour after hour, Brian Dunn lofted his fly line into the turquoise-blue water of this shimmering desert lake north of Reno. Finally, just after lunch, his line straightened and a smile spread on his face. Before long, a 6-....MORE

Israeli Settlement protests

May 18, 2013 4:00 am

A Palestinian hurls stones Friday at Israeli forces, not pictured, as tear gas fumes swirl in the background, during a protest against the expansion of the nearby Jewish settlement of Ofra outside the village of Deir Jarir near Ramallah, West Bank.....MORE

Commuter train crash injures at least 60

May 18, 2013 4:00 am

Two Metro-North Railroad trains collided after a derailment near Fairfield, Conn., at the height of the evening rush Friday, injuring 60 people, five of them critically, and snarling transit corridors in the Northeast, authorities said. An eastbound....MORE

Editor's choice

Treasury knew about IRS probe during 2012

May 18, 2013 4:00 am

WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department’s inspector general told senior Treasury officials in June 2012 he was investigating allegations that the Internal Revenue Service had targeted conservative groups, disclosing for the first time on....MORE

New guide for diagnosing mental illness is fraught

May 18, 2013 4:00 am

For ADHD, the definition is being broadened, meaning the disorder could be diagnosed in more children. In the case of autism, the opposite is true. The new criteria are among the changes that will be released with the publication this weekend of the....MORE

Today in History

May 18, 2013 4:00 am

It’s Saturday, May 18, the 138th day of 2013. There are 227 days left in the year. Hall-of-Fame sportscaster Jack Whitaker is 89. Baseball Hall-of-Famer Brooks Robinson is 76. Bluegrass singer-musician Rodney Dillard (The Dillards) is 71.....MORE

World Briefing

May 18, 2013 4:00 am

Iraq bombings — At least 66 people were killed in bomb blasts in Iraq on Friday, officials said, making it one of the bloodiest days this year as the country struggles to contain spiraling sectarian violence. Two bombs exploded in Baqouba, the ....MORE

Russia sends missiles to Syria

May 17, 2013 4:00 am

Russia has shipped an advanced anti-ship cruise missile to Syria, a move that illustrates the depth of its support for the Syrian government led by President Bashar Assad, U. S. officials said Thursday. Russia has previously provided Yakhont missiles, ....MORE

Powerful tornadoes rip through Texas

May 17, 2013 4:00 am

Emergency workers search the debris in Granbury, Texas, on Thursday after 10 tornadoes touched down overnight here and in several other small communities in North Texas, leaving at least six people dead, dozens injured and hundreds homeless. The....MORE

Obama: Military rape is ‘shameful’

May 17, 2013 4:00 am

WASHINGTON — With arrests in the military continuing to shadow its program to combat sexual harassment, President Barack Obama summoned the Pentagon’s senior leaders to the White House on Thursday, telling them that the levels of sexual....MORE

Obama responds to criticism with ‘fix it’ strategy

May 17, 2013 4:00 am

WASHINGTON — At a news conference in a rainy Rose Garden on Thursday, President Barack Obama and the Turkish prime minister had weighty global matters to discuss, including Syria. But Obama also had something else to say.“With the prime....MORE

Immigration deal reached in House

May 17, 2013 4:00 am

A bipartisan group of House members announced a deal Thursday on sweeping immigration legislation, a breakthrough that could boost chances for one of President Barack Obama’s top second-term priorities. It came after months of secretive talks....MORE

Data trove now guides drug company pitches

May 17, 2013 4:00 am

In the old days, sales representatives from drug companies would chat up local pharmacists to learn what drugs doctors were prescribing. Now such shoulder-rubbing is becoming a quaint memory — thanks to vast databases of patient and doctor....MORE

Bombing blamed on wars

• Younger suspect left ‘deathbed’ note in boat, officials say

May 17, 2013 4:00 am

As police and federal agents pursued him in a Boston suburb four days after the marathon bombings, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left a “deathbed" note scrawled inside the hull of the boat where he was hiding that said the attack was retribution for wars....MORE

Editor's choice

The strange case of an alleged spy

May 17, 2013 4:00 am

ST. LOUIS-The freshman-year roommates at Colgate University would talk about what they hoped to do after college. They were just 18 or 19, their paths barely formed. But they had some ideas. One wanted to be a lawyer. Another, a music producer. And....MORE

In D.C.

Merkley urged IRS to verify 501(c)(4) groups

May 17, 2013 4:00 am

WASHINGTON — More than a year before the Internal Revenue Service apologized for unfairly targeting conservative groups for extra scrutiny, seven Democratic senators, including Oregon’s Jeff Merkley, urged the IRS to be on the lookout....MORE

World Briefing

May 17, 2013 4:00 am

Jodi Arias trial — Jurors deciding the fate of Jodi Arias, who murdered her one-time lover in 2008, were brought to tears Thursday by statements from the victim's family. “The nature of my brother's murder has had a major impact on me,"....MORE