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Nation & World

Published
December 22, 2011

Wave of bombings across Iraqi capital kills 69

The attacks struck days after the last American forces left the country and in the midst of a major government crisis.
Published
December 22, 2011

EPA forcing power plants to reduce toxic pollution

The Obama administration's 'biggest clean-air action yet' aims to cut emissions that threaten public health.
Published
December 22, 2011

Piers Morgan hacking testimony is contradicted

LONDON – Contradicting testimony by Piers Morgan, a former reporter said in a British inquiry that phone hacking was considered a “standard journalistic tool” at the tabloid. Former Daily Mirror business columnist James Hipwell’s testimony on Wednesday clashed with Morgan’s insistence a day earlier that he did not know the practice was used during his […]
Published
December 22, 2011

Study: Lying more likely via text

Researchers find honesty occurs more in video conferencing or talking than in written messages.
Published
December 22, 2011

Eight soldiers held in death linked to hazing

An attorney says Pvt. Daniel Chen died as the result of bullying because of his Chinese background.

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Published
December 22, 2011

Prime minister of Iraq seeks arrest of deputy

BAGHDAD – A political crisis unfolding in Iraq intensified Wednesday when Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki demanded that Kurdish officials hand over the country’s Sunni vice president to face criminal charges and threatened to purge the fragile coalition government of lawmakers who refuse to work with him. Maliki, a Shiite, also said he would release what […]
Published
December 22, 2011

France ponders call for mass removal of risky breast implants

The rare step would affect 30,000 women there with gel devices, made by one company, that tend to leak.
Published
December 22, 2011

More than 100 killed by Syrian forces, activists say

The opposition accuses the government of trying to crush resistance before observers arrive today.
Published
December 22, 2011

Defense paints leak suspect as troubled man, then rests case

After closing arguments today, the Army analyst will await a court-martial decision over the breach.
Published
December 22, 2011

World Dispatches

MOSCOW Spacecraft carrying three en route to space station A Soyuz spacecraft carrying a Russian, an American and a Dutchman to the International Space Station blasted off flawlessly from Russia’s launch facility in Kazakhstan on Wednesday. Mission commander Oleg Kononenko and his colleagues, American Don Pettit and European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers, are to […]