Raise for federal workers proposed
An Obama administration official says the White House is proposing a 0.5 percent raise for civilian federal employees in its 2013 budget. If Congress approves, it would mark the first pay increase for federal workers since the two-year freeze President Barack Obama ordered in 2010.
Drug-sniffing dog getting day in court
In a case closely watched by law enforcement nationwide, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether a Florida police dog's sniff outside the front door of a house with a marijuana growing operation is an illegal search.
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi wants the justices to reverse a state Supreme Court decision that the K-9's sniff runs afoul of the Fourth Amendment protection against illegal search and seizure.
8 NATO troops die in Afghanistan
Eight members of the NATO force were killed in southern Afghanistan in a 24-hour period ending Friday, Western military officials said.
NATO's International Security Assistance Force did not disclose the troops' nationalities, but the majority of those serving in southern Afghanistan are American or British.
20 Christians killed in Nigeria shooting
Gunmen from a radical Muslim sect attacked a town hall Friday in rural northeast Nigeria, killing at least 20 people who had gathered for a meeting of a Christian ethnic group, police said.
The attack at noon targeted Christian Igbo people, with gunmen chanting "God is great" as they fired Kalashnikov rifles.
The killings claimed by Boko Haram come after the group threatened to specifically target Christians living in the country's Muslim north.
Balloon crash kills 11 in New Zealand
A hot air balloon crashed and killed all 11 people aboard near a rural New Zealand town some 94 miles north of the capital, Wellington, officials said Saturday.
Police confirmed two people leaping from the burning basket. Neither survived the fall.
A police commander said it appeared the balloon struck power lines that set a fire onboard.
Fidel Castro pens war, climate article
Putting to rest rumors that he had died, former Cuban leader Fidel Castro has published his first column in nearly two months, a 3,121-word exposition on nuclear war, climate change and other threats to the survival of the human species.
The column published Thursday in virtually all Cuban government news outlets, was Castro's first since Nov. 13.
Van der Sloot hints he'll plead guilty
Joran van der Sloot appears ready to accept responsibility for the killing of a Peruvian woman five years to the day after the disappearance in Aruba of U.S. teen Natalee Holloway. From wire reports
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