By GILLIAN FLACCUS and SARAH PARVINI (YORBA LINDA, Calif., AP) — In the hours after President Richard Nixon delivered a public Watergate address as scandal exploded, two future presidents called him… Read more »
Category: National News
Settlement reached in Penn State-Sandusky scandal
By MARK SCOLFORO (HARRISBURG, Pa., AP) — A young man who testified he was sexually abused by former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky will get a reported multimillion-dollar… Read more »
Prosecutors getting to motive in Fort Hood trial
By MICHAEL GRACZYK and NOMAAN MERCHANT (FORT HOOD, Texas, AP) — The prosecutors pursuing the death penalty against the Army psychiatrist accused in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage will… Read more »
RNC votes to block CNN, NBC from debates
By STEVE PEOPLES (BOSTON, AP) — The Republican National Committee, responding to plans by two television networks for programs about Hillary Rodham Clinton, approved a resolution Friday to block CNN… Read more »
1,600 homes evacuated as Idaho wildfire burns
By BRADY MCCOMBS and JOHN MILLER (BOISE, Idaho, AP) — A wind-driven wildfire burned its way through sage and pine trees near the Idaho mountain resort community of Sun Valley… Read more »
White House travel director keeps entourage moving
By NEDRA PICKLER (VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass., AP) — Even on a summer family vacation, President Barack Obama is followed by an entourage whose behind-the-scenes movements are juggled by a woman… Read more »
US warns of rising threat from al-Qaida in Iraq
By DEB RIECHMANN (WASHINGTON, AP) — Top U.S. and Iraqi diplomats warned Thursday of a rising threat in Iraq from al-Qaida, which is carrying out suicide and car bombings with… Read more »
Hagel looks to cut impact of recent Obama remarks
By LOLITA C. BALDOR (WASHINGTON, AP) — In a highly unusual move to blunt the legal impact of the president’s comments on military sexual assaults, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is… Read more »
Report: NSA spying broke privacy rules many times
(WASHINGTON, AP) — The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in… Read more »
Hundreds evacuated amid Idaho wildfires; some stay
By JOHN MILLER (PINE, Idaho, AP) — Thunderstorms threatened more trouble Tuesday for crews battling a fast-moving wildfire near a remote Idaho hamlet, where some wildfire-weary residents were defying orders… Read more »