By JAKE PEARSON (NEW YORK, AP) — A defiant 16-year-old Pakistani girl whose advocacy for education made her the target of a Taliban assassination attempt a year and a day… Read more »
Category: National News
Midwest lawmakers: Don’t blame me for shutdown
By DAVID EGGERT (LANSING, Mich., AP) — Republicans in the Midwest would like you to know something about the government shutdown that closed the national parks and put 800,000 workers… Read more »
Official: Woman killed in DC chase was delusional
By ERIC TUCKER and JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN (STAMFORD, Conn., AP) — A woman who was shot to death outside the U.S. Capitol after trying to ram her car through a White House… Read more »
Clinton: Shutdown shows ‘scorched earth’ politics
By KEN THOMAS (CLINTON, N.Y., AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday derided the partial government shutdown, saying dysfunction and gridlock are emblematic of too many people in politics choosing… Read more »
Shutdown jeopardizes nutrition program for poor
By MICHAEL RUBINKAM (ALLENTOWN, Pa., AP) — Jacob Quick is a fat and happy 4-month-old with a big and expensive appetite. Like millions of other poor women, Jacob’s mother relies… Read more »
Wendy Davis to run for Texas gov.
By CHRIS TOMLINSON (AUSTIN, Texas, AP) — When Wendy Davis walks into the coliseum where she received her high school diploma on Thursday to announce a bid to become Texas… Read more »
Acclaimed novelist Tom Clancy dies at 66
By HILLEL ITALIE (NEW YORK, AP) — In 1985, a year after the Cold War thriller “The Hunt for Red October” came out, author Tom Clancy was invited to lunch… Read more »
Wave of jellyfish shuts down Swedish nuke reactor
By GARY PEACH (SWEDEN, AP) — It wasn’t a tsunami but it had the same effect: A huge cluster of jellyfish forced one of the world’s largest nuclear reactors to… Read more »
Americans anxious, irritated as gov’t shuts down
By DEEPTI HAJELA (NEW YORK, AP) — The partial government shutdown that began Tuesday left many federal workers uncertain of their financial future, with many facing unpaid furloughs or delays… Read more »
George H.W. Bush witness at Maine same-sex wedding
(KENNEBUNK, Maine, AP) — Former President George H.W. Bush was an official witness at the same-sex wedding of two longtime friends, his spokesman said. Bush and his wife, Barbara Bush,… Read more »