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- Dallas health officials scramble to identify staff who treated Ebola patient
Tuesday - 10/14/2014 - 01:17 AMHealth officials on Monday were scrambling to identify and monitor a large number of health care workers at a Dallas hospital who could be at risk of contracting Ebola after they cared for Thomas Eric Duncan in the hospital’s isolation ward.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - White House intruder got far past front door
Tuesday - 09/30/2014 - 03:15 AMThe intruder who climbed a fence made it farther inside the White House than the Secret Service has publicly acknowledged, a Republican congressman said Monday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - U.S. attacks Somalia terror group
Tuesday - 09/02/2014 - 03:33 AMU.S. military forces Monday conducted an operation in Somalia against al-Shabab, the main al Qaida affiliate in the east Africa country, the Pentagon said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - USGS: 7 small earthquakes shake central Oklahoma
Sunday - 07/13/2014 - 11:11 PMThe U.S. Geological Survey has recorded seven small earthquakes shaking central Oklahoma in a span of about 14 hours.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - General: US assessing whether Iraq forces can hold
Tuesday - 07/01/2014 - 11:13 PMA key role of the American troops in Iraq is assessing whether the country's security forces can hold together and whether its leaders are confident they can do their jobs, a top U.S.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Corruption crackdown snares former Chinese general
Monday - 06/30/2014 - 11:17 PMA spreading anti-corruption crackdown launched by President Xi Jinping snared its most senior figure yet on Monday when a former top Chinese general was expelled from the ruling Communist Party to face bribery charges.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Justice Department releases controversial memo on legality of drone strike on American
Tuesday - 06/24/2014 - 12:37 AMAn American leader of al Qaida based overseas could be killed without violating international or U.S.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Rebels, Syrian government fight polio in rare moment of cooperation
Monday - 06/09/2014 - 10:35 PMEven as it blocks deliveries of food and other crucial aid, the Syrian government allows the Syrian Arab Red Crescent through its siege lines into rebel-held areas to immunize children against polio.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Nigerian defense chief says abducted girls located
Tuesday - 05/27/2014 - 01:14 AMNigeria's military has located nearly 300 school girls abducted by Islamic extremists but fears using force to try to free them could get them killed, the country's chief of defense said Monday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Thailand under martial law and what it means
Tuesday - 05/20/2014 - 02:52 AMThailand's army has declared martial law to "bring back peace and order" amid growing concerns of violence after six months of political protests in the capital.
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- Underwater search for Malaysian airliner resumes
Sunday - 10/05/2014 - 10:39 PMThe hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 resumed Monday in a desolate stretch of the Indian Ocean, more than six months after the jet vanished.
FILE - In this April 13, 2014 file photo, a member of Kechara Buddhist organization offers prayers for passengers onboard the missing Malaysia Ai
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Recovery of bodies called off at Japanese volcano
Monday - 09/29/2014 - 02:54 AMToxic gases and ash from a still-erupting Japanese volcano Monday forced rescue workers to call off their effort to bring down the rest of the victims, after earlier airlifting out eight more bodies by military helicopter.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Official says Jamaica's drought is intensifying
Sunday - 07/20/2014 - 10:41 PMA severe drought is intensifying in Jamaica with water supply systems already well below normal, the Caribbean country's environment minister said Sunday night.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Kerry: Afghan power grab would mean US aid cutoff
Tuesday - 07/08/2014 - 01:19 AMU.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says any action to seize power illegally in Afghanistan would lead to the end of U.S.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 480 U.S. troops now in Baghdad as officials move to secure access to airport
Tuesday - 07/01/2014 - 02:15 AMThe United States has deployed 300 more troops to Baghdad in the last two days, with some of them assigned to secure Baghdad’s international airport, the Obama administration announced Monday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How 2 shadowy ISIS commanders designed their Iraq campaign
Tuesday - 07/01/2014 - 12:55 AMThe attack in Mosul wasn’t particularly surprising, according to Wameed, an Iraqi soldier who’d been assigned to the city’s main highway that night.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - White House briefing fails to calm Bergdahl storm
Tuesday - 06/10/2014 - 01:31 AMThe Obama administration suggested Monday that the deal to swap five Taliban detainees for Army Sgt.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Searchers undecided who will pay for airliner hunt
Monday - 06/09/2014 - 09:18 PMCountries searching for the missing Malaysian plane have yet to agree on how to share costs, an Australian search leader said Tuesday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ex-aide set to testify in Christie bridge scandal
Tuesday - 05/20/2014 - 01:34 AMAnother former aide to Gov. Chris Christie is appearing before New Jersey legislators investigating lane closings at the George Washington Bridge, a scandal that has raised questions about the Republican's viability as a potential 2016 presidential candidate.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - China starts int'l hunt for train station attacker
Monday - 05/19/2014 - 02:33 AMChina said Monday it had launched an international manhunt for the alleged mastermind behind an attack at a train station last month blamed on extremists from the Muslim Turkic Uighur ethnic group.
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- In Hong Kong’s Mong Kok neighborhood, protests have a local feel
Monday - 10/13/2014 - 02:10 AMIt’s dense with people, thick with tension.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Obama: U.S. underestimated the rise of Islamic State
Sunday - 09/28/2014 - 09:46 PMPresident Barack Obama said the United States underestimated the rise of the Islamic State and overestimated the Iraqi military’s ability to fight off the terrorist group in an interview Sunday night on 60 Minutes.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Deadliest day yet as Israel expands into Gaza
Tuesday - 07/22/2014 - 12:54 AMIsraeli forces expanded their offensive against Islamist militants deeper into the Gaza Strip on Sunday, triggering clashes in which 13 soldiers died and more than 60 people were killed in the shelling of a densely populated neighborhood of Gaza City, the army and local health officials said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Soviet defector's trove of KGB secrets made public
Sunday - 07/06/2014 - 09:43 PMThe papers spent years hidden in a milk churn beneath a Russian dacha and read like an encyclopedia of Cold War espionage.
This undated image made available by the Churchill Archive Centre shows the Mitrokhin Archive stacked on a shelf at the Churchill Archive Centre in Cambridge England.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Christie touts tax vetoes, promises benefits cuts
Tuesday - 07/01/2014 - 11:09 PMNew Jersey Gov. Chris Christie defended his new $32.5 billion state budget on national TV and at a local town hall meeting on Tuesday, proudly touting his vetoes of Democratic tax hikes and railing against public employee benefits he says threaten to bankrupt the state.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - N. Korea preparing to indict 2 American tourists
Sunday - 06/29/2014 - 09:48 PMNorth Korea says it's preparing to indict two American detainees for carrying out what it says were hostile acts against the country.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Biden heading to Central America to stop tide of children
Monday - 06/16/2014 - 12:52 AMFacing a tide of unaccompanied children pouring into the U.S., the Obama administration will dispatch Vice President Joe Biden to Central America this week to make it clear they are not eligible for a path to citizenship and may be subject to deportation.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Tiananmen anniversary has Hong Kong agonizing over its future
Monday - 06/02/2014 - 10:43 PMTens of thousands of Hong Kong residents will gather at Victoria Park on Wednesday, as they do every June 4, for a candlelight vigil to honor those killed in 1989 at Tiananmen Square.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Early returns show Poroshenko winning Ukraine vote
Monday - 05/26/2014 - 02:17 AMEarly returns Monday suggested candy tycoon Petro Poroshenko was elected president of Ukraine in the first round of balloting.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Everything must go: Silverdome's assets for sale
Monday - 05/19/2014 - 02:14 AMThe Pontiac Silverdome was the place Elvis, Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones played. And Pope John Paul II prayed. It's where Barry Sanders and Isiah Thomas became Detroit sports legends.
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