EGYPT’S MILITARY CHIEF: ARMY TO CONFRONT VIOLENCE
By MAGGIE MICHAEL A friend of Ammar Badie, 38, killed Friday by Egyptian security forces during clashes in Ramses Square, and also son of Muslim Brotherhood’s spiritual leader Mohammed Badie,…
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AP-NORC POLL: PARENTS BACK HIGH-STAKES TESTING
By PHILIP ELLIOTT and JENNIFER AGIESTA FILE – In this April 18, 2013, file photo, Burgess-Peterson Elementary School principal Robin Robbins, center, meets with students during an after-school study program…
EGYPT CONSIDERS OUTLAWING MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD
By MAGGIE MICHAEL and TONY G. GABRIEL Egyptians security forces escort an Islamist supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood out of the al-Fatah mosque, after hundreds of Islamist protesters barricaded themselves…
NEW NSA REVELATIONS STIR CONGRESSIONAL CONCERN
By KIMBERLY DOZIER FILE – This June 6, 213 file photo shows the sign outside the National Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. The NSA has broken privacy…
REACTIONS TO DEVELOPMENTS IN EGYPT
By The Associated Press An Egyptian walks in front of an army armored vehicle that guards an entrance of Tahrir Square, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Aug. 16, 2013. Egypt is…
OBESITY VERY HIGH IN 13 STATES; MANY IN THE SOUTH
By MIKE STOBBE FILE – In this June 26, 2012 file photo, two women speak to each other in New York. A national telephone survey found 13 states with very…
REACTIONS TO EGYPTIAN CRACKDOWN ON PRO-MORSI CAMPS
By The Associated Press Egyptians walk among the burned remains of the Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque, in the center of the largest protest camp of supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi,…
DC FIRE DEPT. STRAINS TO PROVIDE EMERGENCY CARE
FILE – In this Dec. 16, 2010, file photo, Kenneth Ellerbe Washington then-Washington Mayor-Elect Vince Gray’s nominee for Chief of Fire and Emergency Medical Services, center, talks as fellow nominees,…