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By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times – LAS VEGAS — Texas Deputy Sheriff Rod Carroll is calling it the Thanksgiving Day nightmare. The deputy in Jefferson County, in southeast Texas, heard
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By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times – LAS VEGAS — Texas Deputy Sheriff Rod Carroll is calling it the Thanksgiving Day nightmare. The deputy in Jefferson County, in southeast Texas, heard
By David Zucchino, Los Angeles Times – KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber detonated a car loaded with explosives near a joint coalition-Afghan security center in a province west of Kabul Friday,
By David Enders, McClatchy Newspapers – SHAHEL, Syria — Syrian rebels have captured two of the three major oilfields in the country’s southeastern Deir al-Zour province and are extracting oil that they say
By Ted Gregory, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — Reed Scherer has heard the question: Why in the world does he devote his career to studying Antarctica, the coldest, windiest place on earth, a
By David Enders, McClatchy Newspapers – MAYADIN, Syria — After a siege that lasted nearly a month, Syrian government soldiers abandoned an artillery base in the town of Mayadin Thursday morning, handing anti-government
ISLAMABAD — Taliban militants Thursday took responsibility for three attacks on Shiite Muslim gatherings in Pakistan that killed at least 18 people and injured another 50. Ehsanullah Ehsan, a spokesman for the
By Tiffany Hsu, Los Angeles Times – Twinkies maker Hostess Brands Inc. won court approval to start shutting down operations, selling its assets and laying off its 18,500 workers, after the failure of
By Weedah Hamzah – BEIRUT — Syrian government troops have killed dozens of what state television Thursday termed as “terrorists” near the capital Damascus, as the opposition said the death toll in
By Tony Perry and Richard Marosi, Los Angeles Times – SAN DIEGO — After years of sporadic negotiations, the United States and Mexico Tuesday will sign an agreement to improve cooperation over the
By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times – Diabetes prevalence rates jumped dramatically across the nation between 1995 and 2010, researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control reported in Friday’s edition of the
By Mary MacVean, Los Angeles Times – Thirty of the 50 largest U.S. cities prohibit smoking indoors at all workplaces, restaurants and bars, the federal government reported. Just 12 years ago, only San
By Janet Stobart, Los Angeles Times – LONDON — The Church of England Synod on Tuesday voted down a measure to consecrate women as bishops, ending for now 12 years of debate on
By David Zucchino, Los Angeles Times – KABUL, Afghanistan — Eight people were executed by hanging in Afghanistan on Tuesday, ending a virtual four-year moratorium on executions, and officials announced that eight
By Michael Doyle, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — Natalie Khawam emerged tentatively from the shadows Tuesday to put a human face on her role as one of the side characters in the drama
By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times – ISLAMABAD — A Pakistani court on Tuesday dismissed charges against a Christian girl accused of desecrating the Koran, ending a case that had cast a spotlight
By Anita Kumar and William Douglas, McClatchy Newspapers – YANGON, Myanmar — Welcomed by U.S. friend Thailand and greeted with rock star status during a historic visit to Myanmar, President Barack Obama felt
By Terri Bennett – Thanksgiving should be about a lot of things — family, friends, and breaking bread together. It shouldn’t be about waste. This year, Do Your Part to make your
By Joseph Serna, Los Angeles Times – The driver of a truck involved in a train crash that killed four servicemen is a veteran himself and is “severely traumatized” by the event, an
By Julie K. Brown, The Miami Herald – MIAMI — A student shot and killed a 13-year-old girl in front of her younger sister and seven other children on a school bus Tuesday
By Nancy A. Youssef and Sheera Frenkel, McClatchy Newspapers – CAIRO — Israel and the Islamist group Hamas inched closer Tuesday to agreeing to an Egyptian-negotiated cease-fire that would end a weeklong Israeli
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times – LONDON — The European Union threw its political weight behind a newly formed Syrian opposition coalition Monday in a boost to efforts to unite the many
By Lisa Black, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — An Antioch, Ill., man and his 14-year-old daughter were killed Sunday when their plane crashed as it approached a small airport just north of the
By Chris Kraul, Los Angeles Times – BOGOTA, Colombia — In what some analysts saw as an encouraging sign, Colombia’s largest rebel group declared a two-month truce to take effect Monday night as
By Jim Wyss, The Miami Herald – BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia lost a large swath of the Caribbean but kept a series of far-flung islands that had been at the heart of a
Vanessa Miller, CR Gazette – UPDATE: A doe and her two fawns tried to get a jump on the Black Friday sales in Coralville on Monday morning when they surprised the staff
By Ken Dilanian, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — When Susan Yip stood before a federal judge in San Antonio last month, she apologized tearfully for her role in smuggling American technology to
Joseph Cress, The Sentinel, Carlisle, Pa. – When Steven Spielberg takes the rostrum Monday in Gettysburg, his appearance will be a test run for an even larger production planned for November 2013.
By Laurie Skrivan and Jim Doyle, St. Louis Post-Dispatch – ST. LOUIS — To improve the quality of health care and cut medical costs, the federal government is focusing increasingly on a simple,
By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times – GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — An Israeli airstrike Sunday killed at least nine members of the same family — all women and children — in the
By Michael A. Memoli, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — Lawmakers on Sunday targeted U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice’s comments about the Sept. 11 attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, vowing
By Kathleen Hennessey, Tribune Washington Bureau – YANGON, Myanmar — President Barack Obama on Monday became the first U.S. president to visit Myanmar, a once-secretive nation emerging from decades of authoritarian rule. Obama
By Anita Kumar, McClatchy Newspapers – YANGON, Myanmar — President Barack Obama made an historic visit to Myanmar Monday, becoming the first U.S. president to visit the Southeast Asia nation in the hopes
By Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – MILWAUKEE — Andrew Bouwma worried he wouldn’t be able to pick up his 3-year-old daughter and newborn son. His back was killing him. An Army infantryman
By Joseph Serna, Los Angeles Times – Divers inspecting a Black Elk Energy oil platform that burst into flames in the Gulf of Mexico recovered a body from the water under the platform
The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune – ——— Congress and the president have got to stop playing chicken as the country approaches the edge. Some $600 billion in automatic, across-the-board
By Michael Linhorst and Anthony Campisi, The Record (Hackensack, N.J.) – TRENTON, N.J. — As Obama administration officials toured storm-ravaged parts of New Jersey on Friday and pledged to speed the recovery from
By Mark Brunswick, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – MINNEAPOLIS — War weary after 11 years of combat, the U.S. military is retooling, rebalancing and retraining, drawing down its forces and facing massive budget cuts
NEW YORK — In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) focused on making the safety and support of ICE personnel in the region a top priority. “The
By John C. Ensslin, The Record (Hackensack, N.J.) – HACKENSACK, N.J.—Bergen County officials this week criticized the American Red Cross over problems — including a lack of hot food — they encountered while
By Paul Richter, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — Iran has finished installing centrifuges at a fortified underground facility and can sharply increase production of enriched uranium to a purity that can be