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Editor's choice
Journalistic impartiality tested in NSA leaks
June 19, 2013 4:00 am
LOS ANGELES — Edward Snowden may represent the archetypal leaker of the Internet age — a tech savant who justifies his civil disobedience as a righteous rebuttal to the big institutions he believes have intruded too far into ordinary....MORE
Nation & World Briefs
June 19, 2013 4:00 am
Women in combat — Declaring “the days of Rambo are over," a top general said Tuesday that cultural, social and behavioral concerns may be bigger hurdles than tough physical fitness requirements for women looking to join the military's....MORE
Protests spread in Brazil
June 19, 2013 4:00 am
Thousands of demonstrators flooded a square in Brazil's economic hub, Sao Paulo, on Tuesday evening for the latest in a historic....MORE
Today
June 19, 2013 4:00 am
It's Wednesday, June 19, the 170th day of 2013. There are 195 days left in the year. HistoryHighlight: In 1953, Julius Rosenberg, 35, and his wife, Ethel, 37, convicted of conspiring to pass U. S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, were executed at....MORE
Research
To ease organ shortage, grow them?
June 19, 2013 4:00 am
NEW YORK — By the time 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan finally got a lung transplant last week, she’d been waiting for....MORE
Featured obituary
Kenneth Wilson explained nature’s sudden shifts
June 19, 2013 4:00 am
Kenneth Wilson, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who pointed the way to a detailed understanding of some of the most familiar phenomena in nature, such as the transformation of water into ice, died Saturday at a nursing home in Saco, Maine. He was....MORE
‘Drink Planning Area’ open house Thursday
June 19, 2013 4:00 am
The Deschutes Collaborative Forest Project is hosting an open house Thursday to gather public input on U. S. Forest Service plans for 17,430 acres west of Tumalo Falls. The area, named the “Drink Planning Area" by the Forest Service, lies....MORE
West news
Tornado monitored at Denver airport
June 19, 2013 4:00 am
DENVER — Radar indicated a tornado briefly touched down Tuesday over the east runways of Denver International Airport, where thousands of people took shelter in bathrooms, stairwells and other safe spots until the dangerous weather passed,....MORE
In focus: Military life
Deployment not a factor in most military suicides
June 19, 2013 4:00 am
Nate Evans had three children depending on him and held down a good job running a hyperbaric chamber at a hospital. But what he....MORE
Seattle man cured of HIV hopes to help others
June 19, 2013 4:00 am
SEATTLE — Early reports identified him only as “the Berlin patient." But Timothy Ray Brown, the first person cured of HIV, was born and raised in Seattle. Now, Brown is returning to his hometown to help boost efforts at the Fred....MORE
In party-line vote, House acts to limit abortions
June 19, 2013 4:00 am
WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives on Tuesday approved the most restrictive ban on abortion considered by Congress in a decade, a largely symbolic vote that laid bare the deep ideological differences between Democrats and Republicans.....MORE
Klamath water debate to go before Congress
June 19, 2013 4:00 am
A congressional committee Thursday is scheduled to hear from ranchers, farmers, environmentalists, tribal leaders and federal officials amid another water crisis in the Klamath Basin. Seventeen in all are set to testify before the U. S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, chaired by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore. The hearing comes less than two weeks after the Klamath Tribes put in a....MORE
Update: Jimmy Hoffa search
After 4 decades, disappearance still fascinates
June 19, 2013 4:00 am
OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. — The latest possible resting place of Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa is an overgrown farm field where....MORE
Taliban plan peace talks
June 19, 2013 4:00 am
WASHINGTON — The Taliban signaled a breakthrough in efforts to open Afghan peace negotiations Tuesday, announcing the opening of a political office in Qatar and new readiness to talk with U. S. and Afghan officials, who said in turn that they....MORE
Photoshop helps fuel extortion boom against Chinese officials
June 19, 2013 4:00 am
SHUANGFENG, China - The photograph usually arrives as an email attachment or the old-fashioned way, in an envelope with no return ....MORE
In focus: immigration
‘Modern-day plantation system,’ authorities say after 7-Eleven raids
June 18, 2013 4:00 am
More than a dozen 7-Eleven franchises took in more than $180 million in revenue by running a “modern-day plantation system," prosecutors in New York charged on Monday, built on the unpaid labor of dozens of illegal immigrants hired using sham Social Security numbers. Federal authorities seized 14 7-Eleven stores on Long Island, N. Y., and in Virginia, arresting nine owners and managers, and....MORE
Bernard Sahlins, patriarch of sketch comedy, dies at 90
June 18, 2013 4:00 am
Bernard Sahlins, a founder and former owner of the Second City, the Chicago nightclub that helped establish improvisational....MORE
Editor's choice
Building a bomb that won’t blow up
June 18, 2013 4:00 am
The four Pentagon scientists gathered at a secret base about an hour’s drive from Washington. The three younger scientists wore camouflage jackets and dark, wraparound sunglasses. The fourth, their leader, was a 61-year-old man named Bob Best....MORE
Snowden, in Web chat, says he can’t get a fair trial in the U.S.
June 18, 2013 4:00 am
Edward Snowden, who acknowledged leaking top-secret documents about extensive U. S. surveillance of telephone calls and Internet communications, claimed in an unusual live Web chat Monday that he sees no possibility of a fair trial in the United....MORE
Iran’s Rowhani speaks of ‘new era’
June 18, 2013 4:00 am
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s newly elected president showcased his reform-leaning image Monday by promising a “path of moderation" that includes greater openness on Tehran’s nuclear program and overtures to Washington. He also....MORE
Nation & world
June 18, 2013 4:00 am
G-8 summit — The European Union and the United States will open negotiations next month on a long-sought deal to create free trade between the world’s two mightiest economic regions, an effort designed to create millions of jobs that....MORE
History, Birthdays
Today
June 18, 2013 4:00 am
It’s Tuesday, June 18, the 169th day of 2013. There are 196 days left in the year. HistoryHighlight: In 1983, astronaut Sally Ride, 32, became America’s first woman in space as she and four colleagues (commander Robert Crippen, pilot....MORE
Editor's choice
Millions of faces, few safeguards
June 17, 2013 4:00 am
The faces of more than 120 million people are in searchable photo databases that state officials assembled to prevent....MORE
Nation & world
June 17, 2013 4:00 am
NSA leak — New classified documents disclosed Sunday suggested that Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who has provided a trove of documents to The Guardian newspaper, had obtained a wider range of materials about....MORE
Extremists blow up Shiite mosque in Syria
June 17, 2013 4:00 am
AMMAN, Jordan — Sunni extremists blew up a Shiite mosque in a village in eastern Syria stormed by rebels earlier this week, another sign of the growing sectarian hatred in the country’s civil war, activists said Sunday. They said al-....MORE
Turkey expanding its crackdown on protesters
June 17, 2013 4:00 am
ISTANBUL — The Turkish authorities widened their crackdown on the anti-government protest movement Sunday, taking aim not just at the demonstrators themselves, but also at the medics who treat their injuries, the business owners who shelter....MORE
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Washington Week
June 16, 2013 4:00 am
WASHINGTON — The Senate passed a $955 billion farm bill on Monday, which would set agricultural policy for the next five years. The bill, which cuts funding to food stamps by $4 billion over 10 years, shifts funding away from direct subsidies....MORE
$50M diamond heist soon turned comic
June 16, 2013 4:00 am
GENEVA — When squads of fake police officers arrived in a whirl of blue lights, they struck with clockwork precision, plundering closely guarded packets of diamonds from the cargo hold of a parked plane and fleeing without troubling the....MORE
NSA leaker recalled as quiet and withdrawn
June 16, 2013 4:00 am
He dropped out of high school in the middle of 10th grade, yet won well-paying positions that came with overseas travel and access to some of the world’s most closely held secrets. He had a vivacious, outgoing girlfriend and boasted online about his interest in nubile, beautiful women, even as he secluded himself in a nightscape of computer games, anime and close study of the....MORE
Turkish police roust protesters
June 16, 2013 4:00 am
ISTANBUL — After 18 days of anti-government demonstrations that presented a broad rebuke to the country’s leadership, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan ordered the riot police to storm the center of the protest movement in Gezi Park....MORE
Iranians elect moderate reformer as president
June 16, 2013 4:00 am
TEHRAN, Iran — In a striking repudiation of the ultraconservatives who wield power in Iran, voters here overwhelmingly....MORE
Today's read: Sudden social change
China begins urban resettlement for 250 million people
June 16, 2013 4:00 am
BEIJING — China is pushing ahead with a sweeping plan to move 250 million rural residents into newly constructed towns and....MORE
Trending
Maintaining your privacy
June 16, 2013 4:00 am
If recent reports are to be believed, the National Security Agency has broad powers to capture private information about Americans. They know who we’re calling, they have access to our Gmail messages and AOL Instant Messenger chats, and....MORE
Featured obituary
Judge Jackson called Microsoft a monopoly
June 16, 2013 4:00 am
WASHINGTON — Thomas Penfield Jackson, an outspoken federal judge who sent District of Columbia Mayor Marion Barry to prison for smoking crack cocaine and declared Microsoft a monopoly that needed to be broken apart, died June 15 at his home....MORE
Looking ahead: The Changing face of America
Immigration overhaul may mean demographic shift
June 16, 2013 4:00 am
WASHINGTON —The country may be on the verge of its next demographic metamorphosis. The explosive growth of Hispanics that....MORE
Nation & world
June 16, 2013 4:00 am
Colorado wildfire — Crews gained the upper hand on the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history Saturday and had more than half the blaze contained as officials prepared to lift mandatory evacuation orders for hundreds of residents.....MORE
California news
Skid row storage bins tell gritty tales
June 15, 2013 4:00 am
LOS ANGELES — Jose Antonio Diaz dresses with Friday night bravado every day. He saunters into the skid row warehouse where ....MORE
Featured Obituary
Miller Barber, golf champion with an unorthodox swing
June 15, 2013 4:00 am
Miller Barber, who wielded a famously unorthodox swing to become a leading player on the PGA Tour in the 1960s and a dominant one in the early years of senior play, died Tuesday. He was 82. His death was announced by the PGA Tour. No other details were given. In his nearly half-century in pro golf, Barber won 11 times on the PGA Tour, then flourished on the Senior (now Champions) Tour in the 1980s,....MORE
Syrian allies are uncertain, analysts say
June 15, 2013 4:00 am
WASHINGTON — After concluding that President Bashar Assad’s regime has used chemical weapons against rebel forces, the White House pledged Friday to send more military and financial aid to Syrian opposition groups to make them “as....MORE
Cutting edge
NASA’s latest: Smartphone satellites
June 15, 2013 4:00 am
Each orbiter is only about the size of a coffee mug — and they cost less than $8,000 each. WASHINGTON — NASA is an agency known for going big: big missions, big rockets, big budgets. But nestled in California’s Silicon Valley is....MORE
Firefighters battle most destructive blaze in Colorado history
June 15, 2013 4:00 am
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Authorities lifted evacuations in a wide swath of terrain outside Colorado Springs on Friday as they said a surprise rain shower helped them expand containment of a wildfire that has destroyed 400 homes. Just one day....MORE
Response to protests weakens Turkish leader
June 15, 2013 4:00 am
ISTANBUL — Two weeks into the demonstrations that have shaken Turkey, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s....MORE
Nation & world
June 15, 2013 4:00 am
Medicare panel — A federal advisory panel said Friday that Congress should move immediately to cut payments to hospitals for many services that can be provided at much lower cost in doctors’ offices. The Medicare Payment Advisory....MORE
Editor's choice
Race for cheaper gene tests begins
June 15, 2013 4:00 am
NEW YORK — Companies and a university are moving to offer cheaper and broader genetic testing for breast cancer risk to a growing group of women, following a Supreme Court ruling that ended Myriad Genetics Inc.’s monopoly over DNA that....MORE
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Wyden’s bill would limit NSA surveillance
June 15, 2013 4:00 am
WASHINGTON — In the wake of reports of widespread surveillance of Americans’ phone and Internet usage, two Senate Democrats announced Friday that they will introduce legislation that will curb the National Security Agency’s....MORE
Nation & world briefs
June 14, 2013 4:00 am
NSA leaks — Two senior Republican lawmakers said Thursday that terrorists are already changing their behavior after leaks about classified U. S. data gathering programs, but they offered no details. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., said it’s....MORE
Plant Explosion
June 14, 2013 4:00 am
A ground-rattling explosion Thursday at a chemical plant in Louisiana ignited a blaze that killed one person and injured dozens....MORE
Science Q&A
Ancient water isolated like a time capsule
June 14, 2013 4:00 am
LOS ANGELES — Nearly 1.5 miles beneath Earth’s surface in Canada, scientists have found pockets of water that have been isolated from the outside world for more than 1 billion years. The ancient water, trapped in thin fissures in....MORE
FDA eyes medical device cybersecurity
June 14, 2013 4:00 am
WASHINGTON — The security analysts wanted to know how easy it would be to hack into medical devices used in hospitals,....MORE
Editor s choice
U.S. will arm rebels in Syria, officials say
June 14, 2013 4:00 am
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, concluding that the troops of President Bashar Assad of Syria have used chemical weapons against rebel forces in his country’s civil war, has decided to begin supplying the rebels for the first....MORE
Living the aftermath of an insanity verdict
June 14, 2013 4:00 am
CHICAGO — Shackled to a hospital bed with a self-inflicted neck wound, Marci Webber described to the police visions of....MORE
Secret 2008 ruling puts tech companies in a bind
June 14, 2013 4:00 am
SAN FRANCISCO — In a secret court in Washington, Yahoo’s top lawyers made their case. The government had sought help in spying on certain foreign users, without a warrant, and Yahoo had refused, saying the broad requests were....MORE
Iran begins vote for president
June 14, 2013 4:00 am
TEHRAN — Millions of Iranians headed to the polls today to choose a new president in balloting that has taken on a competitive edge as a single moderate contender faces off against a splintered array of hard-line hopefuls. The election is the....MORE
Research
Cheetah’s agility as important to its success as acceleration
June 14, 2013 4:00 am
WASHINGTON — Everyone knows cheetahs are blazingly fast. Now new research illustrates how their acceleration and nimble....MORE
Genes can’t be patented, Supreme Court rules
June 14, 2013 4:00 am
WASHINGTON — Human genes may not be patented, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday. The decision is likely to reduce the cost of genetic testing for some health risks, and it may discourage investment in some forms of genetic research.....MORE
West news
2 dead, 360 homes burned in raging Colorado wildfire
June 14, 2013 4:00 am
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A voracious wildfire driven in all directions by shifting winds has killed two people and....MORE
Walt Arfons, 96, a tinkerer who set speed records
June 14, 2013 4:00 am
Walt Arfons and his half-brother, Art, were the ultimate tinkerers. Working in garages adjoining their family’s feed mill and hardware store in Akron, Ohio, after World War II, they scooped up discarded automobile and truck parts along with....MORE
Obama administration reportedly split on arming Syrian rebels
June 13, 2013 4:00 am
WASHINGTON — Despite growing alarm over the Syrian government’s military advances, Obama administration officials are split over whether to arm the country’s rebel forces or make other military moves that would deepen U. S.....MORE
NSA chief: Surveillance halted dozens of attacks
June 13, 2013 4:00 am
WASHINGTON — The director of the National Security Agency vigorously defended once-secret surveillance programs as an....MORE
Science
Malaria kit is fast; can it be cheaper?
June 13, 2013 4:00 am
A student-professor team at Case Western Reserve University has invented a hand-held malaria detector that works on an unusual principle: Malaria parasites are stuffed with iron, so their innards can be magnetized. The team, which has incorporated....MORE
Local law enforcement agencies amass DNA files
June 13, 2013 4:00 am
Slowly, and largely under the radar, a growing number of local law enforcement agencies across the country have moved into what had previously been the domain of the FBI and state crime labs — amassing their own DNA databases of potential....MORE
Study
Cancel that Alpha Centauri trip
June 13, 2013 4:00 am
Cosmic hearts started beating a little faster last fall when a team of European astronomers announced that they had found a planet with a mass comparable to Earth’s orbiting Alpha Centauri B, part of a triple star that is the sun’s nearest neighbor, only 4.4 light years from here. As Geoffrey Marcy, an astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley, said at the time, “This....MORE
World Briefing
June 13, 2013 4:00 am
Turkish protests — Turkey’s government on Wednesday offered a first concrete gesture aimed at ending nearly two weeks of street protests, proposing a referendum on a development project in Istanbul that triggered demonstrations that have ....MORE
Hands-free distracting drivers, too?
June 13, 2013 4:00 am
As concerns have intensified about driver distraction from electronic gadgets, automakers have increasingly introduced voice-....MORE
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Merkley aims to close visa loophole
June 13, 2013 4:00 am
WASHINGTON — Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., introduced an amendment Wednesday to the massive immigration bill under consideration in the Senate that would tighten loopholes that Oregon companies used to hire foreign workers to complete local....MORE
Money
Q&A on new health insurance exchanges
June 13, 2013 4:00 am
Consumers want to know: Will health insurance cost more, less or about the same on the new health insurance exchanges?Politicians, for their own reasons, have the same question about the impact of the Affordable Care Act on insurance in 2014.....MORE
In focus: Medical research and protected species
U.S. proposes endangered listing for captive chimps
June 12, 2013 4:00 am
WASHINGTON —They can be bought and sold online for personal use like a pair of new sneakers. They can be leased to medical labs, where they are poked, prodded and injected for a range of medical research projects. But such practices may soon be on their way out. The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced a proposal Tuesday to protect the great ape under the Endangered Species Act both in....MORE
Turkish protesters and police clash
June 12, 2013 4:00 am
ISTANBUL — Taksim Square erupted in chaos Tuesday night as riot police hit protesters with tear gas and water cannons,....MORE
World Briefing
June 12, 2013 4:00 am
Military justice — Ambitious legislation to stanch the growing number of sexual assaults in the armed forces by overhauling the military justice system faces an uncertain future due to vigorous objections from senior Defense Department leaders ....MORE
Behind a cry for help from a Chinese labor camp
June 12, 2013 4:00 am
MASANJIA, China — The cry for help, a neatly folded letter stuffed inside a package of Halloween decorations sold at Kmart, ....MORE
In D.C.
eBill seeks to declassify surveillance court info
June 12, 2013 4:00 am
WASHINGTON — Led by Oregon’s senators, a bipartisan group of eight senators introduced legislation Monday that would declassify opinions from the secret court that authorizes the collection of millions of Americans’ phone data. The....MORE
Walgreen to pay $80M in fines
June 12, 2013 4:00 am
Walgreen, one of the nation’s biggest pharmacy operators, agreed Tuesday to pay $80 million in fines to resolve federal charges that it failed to properly control the sales of narcotic painkillers at some of its outlets. Officials at the Drug....MORE
Housing discrimination remains an issue, HUD says
June 12, 2013 4:00 am
WASHINGTON — Minority renters and homebuyers deployed to test for housing discrimination did not run into the blatant discrimination of four decades ago, but were told about and shown fewer homes than their white counterparts with similar....MORE
Companies’ hiring plans hold steady, survey finds
June 12, 2013 4:00 am
WASHINGTON — More employers are expecting to hire in the third quarter, with gains in all industries and across the country, according to Manpower’s employment-outlook survey released Tuesday. A seasonally adjusted net 12 percent of....MORE
Google asks to disclose data requests
June 12, 2013 4:00 am
SAN FRANCISCO — Google is asking the Obama administration for permission to disclose more details about the U. S. government’s demands for email and other personal information transmitted online in an effort to distance itself from an....MORE
Hepatitis outbreak spreads
June 12, 2013 4:00 am
WASHINGTON — According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an outbreak of hepatitis A linked to a frozen berry mix produced by an Oregon company and sold at Costco has grown to 87 people with illnesses in eight states. The CDC....MORE
Immigration debate moves ahead in Senate
June 12, 2013 4:00 am
WASHINGTON — In Spanish and English, the Senate pushed contentious immigration legislation over early procedural hurdles with deceptive ease on Tuesday as President Barack Obama insisted the “moment is now" to give 11 million immigrants....MORE
Birthdays History
Today
June 12, 2013 4:00 am
Highlight: In 1963, civil rights leader Medgar Evers, 37, was shot and killed outside his home in Jackson, Miss. (In 1994, Byron De La Beckwith was convicted of murdering Evers and sentenced to life in prison; he died in 2001.)In 1776,....MORE
Phenomenon
A glamorous killer reclaims its range
June 12, 2013 4:00 am
The great migration began perhaps 40 years ago. From strongholds in the Rocky Mountains and Texas, young males headed east,....MORE
In focus: immigration
Shootings by agents add to border tensions
June 11, 2013 4:00 am
NOGALES, Ariz. — As rocks hurled from Mexico rained down on U. S. Border Patrol agents one night in October, at least one....MORE
NSA leaks put focus on contractors
June 11, 2013 4:00 am
The unprecedented leak of top-secret documents by National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden raises far-reaching questions about the government’s rush to outsource intelligence work to contractors since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist....MORE
Editor's choice
What to make of a plateau in warming
June 11, 2013 4:00 am
As unlikely as this may sound, we have lucked out in recent years when it comes to global warming. The rise in the surface temperature of Earth has been markedly slower over the last 15 years than in the 20 years before that. And that lull in warming ....MORE
Nation & world
June 11, 2013 4:00 am
Farm bill — The Senate on Monday passed a five-year, half-trillion-dollar farm bill that expands government subsidies for crop insurance, rice and peanuts while making small cuts to food stamps. The bill passed on a bipartisan 66-27 vote. The....MORE
In reversal, Obama to end effort to restrict morning-after pill
June 11, 2013 4:00 am
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has decided to stop trying to block over-the-counter availability of the most popular morning-after contraceptive pill for all women and girls, a move fraught with political repercussions for President....MORE
NSA surveillance programs
Complaints abroad, at home over spying
June 11, 2013 4:00 am
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration faced fresh anger Monday at home and abroad over U. S. spy programs that track phone and Internet messages around the world in the hope of thwarting terrorist threats. But a senior intelligence official....MORE
Research
Seeking hazardous air, one spot at a time
June 11, 2013 4:00 am
Scientists struggling to understand exactly where and how we’re exposed to air pollution are making use of the nuanced....MORE
History, Birthdays
Today
June 11, 2013 4:00 am
It’s Tuesday, June 11, the 162nd day of 2013. There are 203 days left in the year. HistoryHighlight: In 1963, in one of the most shocking images of the Vietnam War era, a Buddhist monk, Thich Quang Duc, set himself afire on a Saigon street to....MORE
S&P boosts outlook for U.S.
June 11, 2013 4:00 am
WASHINGTON — Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services upgraded its outlook Monday for the U. S. government’s long-term debt. S&P cited the government’s strengthened finances, a recovering U. S. economy and some easing of....MORE
In focus: National security
Surveillance revelations force a question: What do we want?
June 10, 2013 4:00 am
NEW YORK — For more than a decade now, Americans have made peace with the uneasy knowledge that someone — government, ....MORE
What is rural? Government has at least 15 definitions
June 10, 2013 4:00 am
Lenoir is a small town in western North Carolina. It has 18,000 people, a Wal-Mart, a Waffle House and an annual parade famous....MORE
Editor's choice
Privacy fears worry data-driven tech field
June 10, 2013 4:00 am
SAN FRANCISCO — The dreamers, brains and cranks who built the Internet hoped it would be a tool of liberation and knowledge. Last week, an altogether bleaker vision emerged with new revelations of how the government was reported to be using it as a monitoring and tracking device. In Silicon Valley, a place not used to second-guessing the bright future it is eternally building, there was a....MORE
Farms hurt by drought, now rains
June 10, 2013 4:00 am
NORBORNE, Mo. — About this time last year, farmers were looking to the heavens, pleading for rain. Now, they are praying for the rain to stop. One of the worst droughts in this nation’s history, a dry spell that persisted through the....MORE
Nation & world
June 10, 2013 4:00 am
Alaska mine — Five Democratic senators are asking President Barack Obama to consider blocking a proposed mine in Alaska’s Bristol Bay, a move that could heighten pressure on the Environmental Protection Agency to veto the project. In a....MORE
Police ID gunman in deadly Santa Monica rampage
June 10, 2013 4:00 am
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — What she remembered most about the man who fired at her were his eyes. Hard, cold and intense. There was “no hesitation, no flick of a muscle, nothing. Just absolutely staring and going onto the next step,"....MORE
Iranian candidates toe hard line on nukes
June 10, 2013 4:00 am
TEHRAN, Iran — A group of chador-wearing female supporters of Iran’s nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, cheered....MORE
Proposed
Are nutritional facts coming to this space on the bottle?
June 10, 2013 4:00 am
Alcoholic beverages soon could have nutritional labels like those on food packaging, but only if the producers want to put them there. The Treasury Department, which regulates alcohol, said recently that beer, wine and spirits companies can use labels that include serving size, servings per container, calories, carbohydrates, protein and fat per serving. Such package labels have never before been....MORE
PTSD may be prevented, new research indicates
June 10, 2013 4:00 am
Experts estimate that up to 20 percent of U. S. troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, a condition that can be stubbornly difficult to treat. But what if PTSD could have been prevented in the first place?....MORE
Birthdays, Happenings, History
Today
June 10, 2013 4:00 am
It’s Monday, June 10, the 161st day of 2013. There are 204 days left in the year. HappeningsTrial — Jury selection begins in the trial of George Zimmerman, the Florida neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon....MORE
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Most read Nation / World articles
- Immigration overhaul may mean demographic shift | June 16, 2013
- Building a bomb that won’t blow up | June 18, 2013
- NASA’s latest: Smartphone satellites | June 15, 2013
- ‘Modern-day plantation system,’ authorities say after 7-Eleven raids | June 18, 2013
- Bernard Sahlins, patriarch of sketch comedy, dies at 90 | June 18, 2013
- Iran’s Rowhani speaks of ‘new era’ | June 18, 2013
- Nation & world | June 18, 2013
- Snowden, in Web chat, says he can’t get a fair trial in the U.S. | June 18, 2013
- Today | June 18, 2013
- Judge Jackson called Microsoft a monopoly | June 16, 2013
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