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Kerry pushes for Israeli-Palestinian talks
posted: 05/25/2013 5:39 a.m. Discuss
Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday that he hopes Israel will refrain from further Jewish settlement expansion on land Palestinians claim for a future state.
Ribbon record touts rebuilt Jersey shore
posted: 05/25/2013 5:37 a.m. Discuss
New Jersey used a record-breaking gesture Friday to celebrate its recovery from a record-setting storm, proclaiming to the nation that the Jersey shore is back in business after superstorm Sandy.
Obama: Follow ‘inner compass’
posted: 05/25/2013 5:31 a.m. Comment 1
President Barack Obama used a commencement speech before Naval Academy graduates Friday to urge them to follow an “inner compass” and to warn that rising numbers of sexual assaults in the military threatened to erode America’s faith in the armed forces.
Search is on for I-5 replacement bridge
posted: 05/25/2013 5:27 a.m. Discuss
Federal officials were searching the country for a possible temporary replacement for a bridge that collapsed along the crucial Interstate 5 corridor, but Washington Gov. Jay Inslee cautioned Friday that major disruptions will last for weeks, if not months.
Concealed-weapons plan passes Illinois House; tests ahead
posted: 05/25/2013 5:18 a.m. Discuss
Gun owners in the only state still banning concealed weapons would win that right under a plan approved by the Illinois House on Friday, but the governor and other powerful Democrats oppose the plan because it would wipe out local gun ordinances — including Chicago’s ban on assault weapons.
The nation in brief
posted: 05/25/2013 5:15 a.m. Discuss
QUOTE OF THE DAY “He looked in the mirrors and it just dropped out of sight. I spoke to him seconds after it happened. He was just horrified.” Cynthia Scott, the wife of truck driver William Scott, whose oversized load hit a bridge girder in Washington, sending a section of Interstate 5 into the river below Article, this page
Getting it straight
posted: 05/25/2013 5:14 a.m. Discuss
The Democrat-Gazette wants its news reports to be fair and accurate.
Names and faces
posted: 05/25/2013 5:13 a.m. Discuss
Actress Amanda Bynes appeared disheveled in a long, blond wig and sweats Friday in a criminal court, where she was charged with reckless endangerment after police said she heaved a marijuana bong out of her Manhattan apartment building.
In the news
posted: 05/25/2013 5:13 a.m. Discuss
Lance Deleon, a police officer in the south Texas city of Boerne, has been put on administrative leave after being charged in the shooting of an arrow into Bobby, a neighbor’s 2-year-old male cat who was treated for a punctured lung and broken front right leg but is expected to recover.
Ad pans Pryor’s vote on guns bill
posted: 05/25/2013 5:09 a.m. Comments 8
Mayors Against Illegal Guns, backed by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, launched a television ad Friday alluding to the death of former Arkansas Democratic Chairman Bill Gwatney and criticizing Sen. Mark Pryor for opposing criminal background checks for firearms purchased online or at gun shows.
IRS official who took 5th replaced
posted: 05/24/2013 5:38 a.m. Discuss
A day after she refused to answer questions at a congressional hearing, Lois Lerner was replaced Thursday as director of the Internal Revenue Service division that oversaw agents who targeted Tea Party groups.
House OKs bill on student-loan rates
posted: 05/24/2013 5:36 a.m. Discuss
The House on Thursday passed legislation to head off a doubling of student-loan interest rates on July 1, instead tying rates to prevailing market trends and ending federal subsidies.
Active hurricane season forecast
posted: 05/24/2013 5:36 a.m. Discuss
Federal forecasters Thursday called for 13-20 named Atlantic storms this hurricane season, seven to 11 that will strengthen into hurricanes and three to six that will become major hurricanes.
Pakistan arrested drone-killed American in ’08
posted: 05/24/2013 5:35 a.m. Discuss
An American citizen killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan in 2011 was arrested by Pakistani authorities three years earlier but escaped after being released on bond, officials said Thursday.
U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen
posted: 05/24/2013 5:34 a.m. Discuss
Official U.S. figures on drone strikes and estimated deaths remain classified.
