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Nation & World

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March 21, 2013

Civilian drones threatening public privacy, experts say

WASHINGTON – Privacy laws urgently need to be updated to protect the public from information-gathering by the thousands of civilian drones expected to be flying in U.S. skies in the next decade or so, legal experts told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. A budding commercial drone industry is poised to put mostly small unmanned […]
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March 21, 2013

Apollo rocket parts raised from deep

Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos leads a team that used underwater robots to hoist the two engines.
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March 21, 2013

Colorado governor signs gun-control bills

DENVER – Colorado’s governor signed bills Wednesday that place new restrictions on firearms, signaling a change for Democrats who have traditionally shied away from gun control in a state with a pioneer tradition of gun ownership and self-reliance. The legislation thrust Colorado into the national spotlight as a potential test of how far the country […]
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March 21, 2013

Cyberattack in South Korea hits banks, TV broadcasters

SEOUL, South Korea – A cyberattack caused computer networks at major South Korean banks and top TV broadcasters to crash simultaneously Wednesday, paralyzing bank machines across the country and prompting speculation of North Korean involvement. Screens went blank at 2 p.m., the state-run Korea Information Security Agency said, and more than seven hours later some […]
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March 21, 2013

Five ex-officials guilty of stealing from small town

LOS ANGELES – Five former elected officials in a small, blue-collar California city who became a national symbol of municipal greed were convicted Wednesday of stealing taxpayer money by serving on a panel that evidence showed was created only to boost their annual salaries to nearly $100,000. The former mayor of Bell and four onetime […]

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March 21, 2013

Obama health care law still a mystery to most

Misunderstandings have dogged the law, in part because major benefits do not go into effect until next year.
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March 21, 2013

Urgency of Iranian threat disputed

But President Obama and Israeli P.M. Benjamin Netanyahu still claim common ground.
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March 21, 2013

Arizona bill called anti-transgender

It would require people to use restrooms for the sex listed on their birth certificates or go to jail.
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March 21, 2013

Senate OKs stopgap budget plan

WASHINGTON – Just weeks after Washington nearly went to war over automatic spending cuts, the Senate scripted a peaceful ending to the clash Wednesday as it backed the reductions while giving government managers flexibility to minimize the impacts on the public by finding the savings elsewhere in their budgets. The Democratic-controlled Senate approved the plan […]
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March 21, 2013

World Dispatches

BAGHDAD, Iraq Al-Qaida group takes credit for explosions that killed 65 An al-Qaida in Iraq front group claimed responsibility Wednesday for bloody attacks that killed 65 people across the country a day earlier, underscoring the terror group’s potency a decade after the U.S.-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein. In a statement posted on a militant […]