http://www.katu.com/news/national RSS Feed for KATU - News - National & World en-us Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:02:26 GMT 2012-02-13T20:02:26Z en-us http://www.katu.com/news/national/Investigators-awaiting-lab-results-in-Whitney-Houstons-death-139219674.html Whitney Houston was under water and apparently unconscious when she was found in a hotel bathtub, Beverly Hills police said Monday. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:01:17 GMT http://www.katu.com/news/national/Investigators-awaiting-lab-results-in-Whitney-Houstons-death-139219674.html 2012-02-13T20:01:17Z http://www.katu.com/news/national/JFK-intern-recounts-long-ago-affair-in-new-book-139219164.html Mimi Alford was terrified in 1998 when the Monica Lewinsky scandal turned the word "intern" into a dirty joke, exposing an affair with a president. Her decades-old secret about her trysts with John F. Kennedy was still safe then. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:19:52 GMT http://www.katu.com/news/national/JFK-intern-recounts-long-ago-affair-in-new-book-139219164.html 2012-02-13T17:19:52Z http://www.katu.com/news/national/At-least-your-money-can-live-like-a-millionaires-139218814.html Movie super spies James Bond and Jason Bourne use them. So do real-life presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who says he pays his taxes, and untold numbers of Americans who don't. Swiss banks and their secretive counterparts around the globe may sound like the exclusive province of the wealthy, the mysterious or the shady, but anybody can legally open an offshore account. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:23:36 GMT http://www.katu.com/news/national/At-least-your-money-can-live-like-a-millionaires-139218814.html 2012-02-13T16:23:36Z http://www.katu.com/news/national/Military-planes-fly-food-into-snowbound-European-towns-139218509.html Military planes flew in tons of emergency food Monday to towns and villages in eastern Romania where thousands have been stranded by blizzards. Some people had to cut tunnels through 15 feet of snow to get out of their homes. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:20:49 GMT http://www.katu.com/news/national/Military-planes-fly-food-into-snowbound-European-towns-139218509.html 2012-02-13T16:20:49Z http://www.katu.com/news/national/Budget-battle-likely-to-extend-to-November-elections-139218059.html President Barack Obama unveiled a $3.8 trillion spending plan on Monday for 2013 that seeks to achieve $4 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade but does little to restrain growth in the government's huge health benefit programs, a major cause of future deficits. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:02:26 GMT http://www.katu.com/news/national/Budget-battle-likely-to-extend-to-November-elections-139218059.html 2012-02-13T20:02:26Z http://www.katu.com/news/national/Induced-labor-allows-dying-man-to-see-daughter--139194504.html Diane Aulger was about two weeks from her delivery date when she and her husband decided there was no time to wait: Mark Aulger had only days to live, and he wanted to see his child. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:25:33 GMT http://www.katu.com/news/national/Induced-labor-allows-dying-man-to-see-daughter--139194504.html 2012-02-13T02:25:33Z http://www.katu.com/news/national/Greece-passes-new-austerity-deal-amid-rioting--139195134.html Greek lawmakers on Monday approved harsh new austerity measures demanded by bailout creditors to save the debt-crippled nation from bankruptcy, after riots in Athens and other cities left stores looted and burned and more than 120 people hurt. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:55:28 GMT http://www.katu.com/news/national/Greece-passes-new-austerity-deal-amid-rioting--139195134.html 2012-02-13T02:55:28Z http://www.katu.com/news/national/Mystery-disease-kills-thousands-in-Central-America-139191759.html A mysterious epidemic is devastating the Pacific coast of Central America, killing more than 24,000 people in El Salvador and Nicaragua since 2000 and striking thousands of others with chronic kidney disease at rates unseen virtually anywhere else. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:35:02 GMT http://www.katu.com/news/national/Mystery-disease-kills-thousands-in-Central-America-139191759.html 2012-02-13T00:35:02Z http://www.katu.com/news/national/Fuel-removal-under-way-on-Italy-cruise-ship--139182089.html Underwater pumping operations began Sunday to remove some of the 500,000 gallons of fuel aboard the Costa Concordia, officials said, nearly a month after the cruise ship ran aground off Tuscany. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:26:11 GMT http://www.katu.com/news/national/Fuel-removal-under-way-on-Italy-cruise-ship--139182089.html 2012-02-12T17:26:11Z http://www.katu.com/news/national/RI-player-wins-336-million-Powerball-jackpot--139182094.html Lottery officials say someone who played the Powerball in Rhode Island has won the $336.4 million jackpot. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:55:25 GMT http://www.katu.com/news/national/RI-player-wins-336-million-Powerball-jackpot--139182094.html 2012-02-12T16:55:25Z