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Nation & World

Published
August 26, 2011

Rebels discover vast, secret tunnel system

Gadhafi may have escaped via underground network
Published
August 26, 2011

Massive destruction of paper court records set as storage costs mount

CHICAGO – Wrestling with the challenges of documents in the digital age, U.S. officials are destroying millions of paper federal court records to save storage costs – and raising the ire of some historians, private detectives and others who heavily rely on the files. The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration says at least 10 […]
Published
August 26, 2011

More modest airport scanners debut

MINNEAPOLIS – Revealing images have given way to Gumby-like outlines for airport passengers subjected to electronic body scans at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. MSP has joined a growing list of airports using new equipment that displays a generic figure instead of an optical X-ray-type image of an individual’s features. The Transportation Security Administration spent a […]
Published
August 26, 2011

Two weather cycles drop ocean levels a quarter inch

The global sea level this summer is a quarter of an inch lower than last summer, according to NASA scientists, in sharp contrast to the gradual rise the ocean has experienced in recent years. The change stems from two strong weather cycles over the Pacific Ocean – El Nino and La Nina – which shifted […]
Published
August 26, 2011

World Dispatches

JOHANNESBURG Few African leaders show up for famine relief conference Most of Africa’s heads of state failed to turn up Thursday at the first African Union donor conference in Ethiopia to raise money for the Horn of Africa famine, leaving activists disappointed with pledges. Of the A.U.’s 54 member nations, only the heads of Ethiopia, […]

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Published
August 26, 2011

Census releases first-ever look at marriage, divorce in U.S.

WASHINGTON – Singles, take note: With marriages at an all-time low, states in the South and West rank among the highest for couples hearing wedding bells. But many of these states also have higher rates of divorce. The first-of-its-kind analysis by the Census Bureau, released Thursday, also finds that people are waiting longer before marrying […]
Published
August 26, 2011

Libyans step up search for defiant ruler Gadhafi

The elusive dictator taunts the rebels in an audio message from his secret hideout, calling them 'rats, crusaders and unbelievers.'
Published
August 25, 2011

El Nino blamed for unrest in poor tropical nations

Scientists say the warm, dry weather influenced 48 of 234 civil wars or uprisings from 1950-2004.
Published
August 25, 2011

Employer-sponsored health plans at risk?

A survey finds that nearly 10 percent of companies plan to end coverage under the Obama health care law.
Published
August 25, 2011

$2 million bounty offered for Gadhafi, dead or alive

Rebel leaders are starting to set up a government and are talking to the U.N. about monitors.