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Stocks gain on reassurance from top Fed official
Nation & World News Comments Updated: May 22, 2013 9:34amNEW YORK — Reassuring comments from a Federal Reserve official and better earnings from two big retailers helped push the stock market higher Tuesday.
Stock indexes wobbled between gains and...
Small company stocks a bright spot in week’s subdued start
Nation & World News Comments Updated: May 21, 2013 12:05amNEW YORK — Small-company stocks were a bright spot in a subdued start to the week for Wall Street.
The Russell 2000, an index of small-company stocks, climbed above 1,000 points for the...
Scale of AP records seizure surprises many
Nation & World News Comments Updated: May 21, 2013 12:05amWASHINGTON — Three years ago, the Obama administration brought criminal charges under the Espionage Act against Thomas Drake, an Air Force veteran and intelligence expert at the National Security...
Recurring Nightmare
Nation & World News Comments Updated: May 21, 2013 12:05amA massive tornado up to a mile wide chewed through Moore, Okla., a suburb of Oklahoma City, on Monday afternoon, grinding up entire neighborhoods and obliterating a school where third-graders who...
Egypt dispatches army to Sinai after militants snatch soldiers
Nation & World News Comments Updated: May 21, 2013 12:05amCAIRO — Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi ordered army reinforcements to the restive Sinai on Monday amid rising tensions there over the kidnapping of seven soldiers by suspected Islamist...
China-N. Korea tensions rise over boat held hostage
Nation & World News Comments Updated: May 21, 2013 12:05amBEIJING — A Chinese fishing boat has been seized by armed North Koreans who are demanding a ransom of nearly $100,000 for the release of the ship and 16 Chinese crew members.
The Chinese...
World briefly 5/21
Nation & World News Comments Updated: May 21, 2013 12:05amOfficials: Obama wasn’t told of IRS probe
WASHINGTON — White House chief of staff Denis McDonough and other senior advisers knew in late April that an impending report was likely to say the...
