HEALTH CARE DIVIDES SOME REPUBLICAN SENATE RIVALS
By BILL BARROW FILE – In this March 20, 2010 file photo, Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Ga., speaks to people demonstrating against the health care bill on the U.S. Capitol steps…
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TO CLEAN UP COAL, OBAMA PUSHES MORE OIL PRODUCTION
By DINA CAPPIELLO In this Oct. 21, 2013, photo, construction continues at the Mississippi Power’s Kemper County energy facility in central Mississippi near DeKalb, Miss. The power plant is designed…
NEW JAPAN SECURITY PLAN FOC– USES ON ISLAND DISPUTE
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Japan’s upper house lawmaker Yosuke Isozaki, a special adviser to Abe on security affairs, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Tokyo Tuesday, Dec. 17,…
FRANCE PUSHING EU TO FUND MILITARY INTERVENTIONS
By SYLVIE CORBET Former FARCA (Central African Republic Forces) soldiers linked to Anti-Balaka Christian militiamen who have set up camp in a school in the Boeing neighborhood of the Central…
AP-GFK POLL: HEALTH LAW SEEN AS ERODING COVERAGE
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and JENNIFER AGIESTA FILE – In this Dec. 4, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks about the new health care law during a…
NKOREAN OFFICIAL: PURGE WON’T HURT ECONOMIC POLICY
By ERIC TALMADGE Yun Yong Sok, a senior official in North Korea’s State Economic Development Committee, speaks inside a conference room in Pyongyang, North Korea on Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013.…
UNCLE ROSE WITH NKOREAN LEADER BEFORE BRUTAL FALL
By JEAN H. LEE FILE – In this Feb. 16, 2012 file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un walks past his uncle Jang Song Thaek, left, after reviewing a…
EU’S ASHTON: YANUKOVYCH WANTS TO SIGN EU DEAL
By JIM HEINTZ and RAF CASERT Pro-European Union activists are trained to resist police inside their tent camp at Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013. Ukraine was…