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Russian mice, gerbils dead in 30-day space ordeal; lizards live
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 22, 2013 10:30amLOS ANGELES — A crew of Mongolian gerbils may have gone where no Mongolian gerbil has gone before, but they did not come back alive. A Russian spacecraft filled with mice, lizards and other...
Reid to delay Senate votes on most Obama nominees until July
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 22, 2013 10:30amWASHINGTON, D.C. — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday that he will delay votes on several of President Barack Obama’s nominees for key posts until July, a decision raising the prospect...
Salt Lake City has highest rate of same-sex couples raising kids
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 22, 2013 10:30amLOS ANGELES — Salt Lake City: the gay parenting capital of the United States?
Unexpected as it may sound, a new study finds that the Utah capital and its outskirts have the nation’s highest...
Former IRS commissioner ‘dismayed’ by inspector general’s report
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 22, 2013 10:30amWASHINGTON, D.C. — The former top official of the Internal Revenue Service told senators Tuesday he was “dismayed and saddened” by an inspector general’s report detailing how, during his tenure as...
Obama: Nation to stand by Oklahoma survivors ‘as long as it takes’
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 22, 2013 10:30amWASHINGTON, D.C. — President Obama on Tuesday assured the survivors of Oklahoma’s deadly tornado that the nation is “there for them” and that the government will keep its focus on the rescue...
Oklahoma tornado survivor describes friend’s heroism
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 22, 2013 10:30amOKLAHOMA CITY — A few hours after a massive tornado tore through the Oklahoma City area, ravaging neighborhoods and two elementary schools and killing dozens of people, Edie Cordray sent an urgent...
Jailing of Afghan women for ‘moral’ crimes is increasing, group says
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 22, 2013 10:30amISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The number of women and girls jailed by Afghan authorities for “moral crimes” has risen by 50 percent in the last 18 months, an alarming statistic that reflects the Afghan...
Monster python killed in South Florida
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 21, 2013 10:30amFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A record-setting Burmese python was killed with a knife in a rural section of southern Miami-Dade County, after it wrapped itself around the leg of the man trying to...
Deaths caused by SARS-like virus rises to 16 in Saudi Arabia
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 21, 2013 10:30amRIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A man died Monday of the SARS-like coronavirus in Saudi Arabia, bringing the death toll for the respiratory infection in the kingdom to 16, the Health Ministry said.
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Rescuers search for tornado victims in Oklahoma; death toll hits 51
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 21, 2013 10:30amAs night fell in Oklahoma, a massive search and rescue operation was taking place to locate survivors from the mile-wide tornado that ripped through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday...
