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UN says: why not eat more insects?
ROME (AP) — The U.N. has new weapons to fight hunger, boost nutrition and reduce pollution, and they might be crawling or flying near you right now: edible insects. The Food and Agriculture Organization on […]
Spacewalking repair halts station leak – for now
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – Astronauts making a rare, hastily planned spacewalk replaced a pump outside the International Space Station on Saturday in hopes of plugging a serious ammonia leak. The prospects of success grew […]
GOP ready to push Benghazi case into 2014, beyond
WASHINGTON (AP) – Steady drips of information about a horrific night in Libya are fueling Republican arguments and ads designed to fire up the conservative base and undercut the Democrats’ early favorite for president in […]
Icy Arctic rising as economic, security hot spot
WASHINGTON (AP) – The icy Arctic is emerging as a global economic hot spot. It’s one that is becoming a security concern for the U.S. as world powers jockey to tap its vast energy resources […]
Prince Harry salutes war dead at Arlington
WASHINGTON (AP) – Britain’s Prince Harry saluted America’s war dead in somber remembrance at Arlington National Cemetery on Friday, pausing, too, to place flowers on the tombstone of President John F. Kennedy and visit the […]
Bangladesh collapse survivor rescued after 17 days
SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) – A seamstress buried for 17 days in the wreckage of a collapsed garment factory building in Bangladesh was rescued Friday, a miraculous moment set against the unimaginable horror of the more […]
State Department pushed to change talking points
WASHINGTON (AP) – State Department officials recommended significant changes in the widely debunked talking points that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice used five days after the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, […]
Israel to Russia: Don’t give Syria S-300 missiles
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has asked Russia to cancel an imminent sale of an advanced air defense system to Syria that could complicate further military intervention, Israeli security officials confirmed Thursday. The officials said Israel […]
Do me a solid
OK. It’s obviously a very serious story that Korean-American Kenneth Bay has been sentenced to 15 years hard labor in North Korea. Yet somehow former NBA whack job Dennis Rodman has inserted himself into it. […]
Syrian state media say Internet service restored
BEIRUT (AP) — Internet service was restored across Syria on Wednesday, after a countrywide outage cut off the country from the rest of the world for nearly 20 hours, state media said. The state news […]



















