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Boost for vets' health: Obama signs new law 08/08/2014 06:06pm • DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press FORT BELVOIR, Va. (AP) -- Tens of thousands of military veterans who have been enduring long waits for medical care should be able to turn to private doctors almost immediately under a law signed Thursday by President Barack Obama.Other changes will take longer un VA apologizes for error in patient-death report 08/08/2014 02:40pm • MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Department of Veterans Affairs has apologized for what it called an "inadvertent" mistake that underreported the number of deaths linked to delays in cancer treatment at VA medical facilities."VA inadvertently caused confusion in its communication 3 decades later, remains of Jonestown bodies found 08/08/2014 05:08am • RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) -- More than 35 years after the infamous suicide-murder of some 900 people -- many forced to drink a cyanide-laced grape punch -- in Jonestown, Guyana, the cremated remains of nine of the victims were found in a dilapidated former funeral home in Delaw Cambodia tribunal convicts Khmer Rouge leaders 08/08/2014 03:26am • TODD PITMAN Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) -- They were leaders of Cambodia's infamous Khmer Rouge, the fanatical communist movement behind a 1970s reign of terror that transformed this entire Southeast Asian nation into a ruthless slave state -- a place where cities were emptied of thei Troops deployed in hopes of preventing Ebola spread 08/07/2014 05:10pm • MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) -- Officials in western Africa are taking increasingly desperate measures to stop the spread of Ebola.In Liberia, troops in full combat gear were deployed in the rain today to block people traveling to the country's capital from rural areas hit by the deadly disease. In Sierra Major provisions of veterans health care law 08/07/2014 04:10pm • The Associated Press A law signed Thursday by President Barack Obama aims to alleviate delays many veterans have faced in getting treatment at Veterans Affairs hospitals and clinics and end the widespread practice of covering up long wait times for appointments. The legislation also makes it easier Major provisions of veterans health care bill 08/07/2014 03:50pm • The Associated Press A bill approved by Congress aims to alleviate delays many veterans have faced in getting treatment at Veterans Affairs hospitals and clinics and end the widespread practice of covering up long wait times for appointments. The legislation also makes it easier to fire hospital ad Major provisions of veterans health care bill 08/07/2014 03:50pm • The Associated Press A bill approved by Congress aims to alleviate delays many veterans have faced in getting treatment at Veterans Affairs hospitals and clinics and end the widespread practice of covering up long wait times for appointments. The legislation also makes it easier to fire hospital ad Major provisions of veterans health care bill 08/07/2014 03:50pm • The Associated Press A bill approved by Congress aims to alleviate delays many veterans have faced in getting treatment at Veterans Affairs hospitals and clinics and end the widespread practice of covering up long wait times for appointments. The legislation also makes it easier to fire hospital ad Major provisions of veterans health care bill 08/07/2014 03:50pm • The Associated Press A bill approved by Congress aims to alleviate delays many veterans have faced in getting treatment at Veterans Affairs hospitals and clinics and end the widespread practice of covering up long wait times for appointments. The legislation also makes it easier to fire hospital ad Major provisions of veterans health care bill 08/07/2014 03:50pm • The Associated Press A bill approved by Congress aims to alleviate delays many veterans have faced in getting treatment at Veterans Affairs hospitals and clinics and end the widespread practice of covering up long wait times for appointments. The legislation also makes it easier to fire hospital ad Thailand pushes to ban commercial surrogacy 08/07/2014 11:30am • THANYARAT DOKSONE Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) -- Thailand pushed to ban commercial surrogacy Thursday as a case involving nine surrogate babies allegedly with the same Japanese father emerged just days after a furor over the alleged abandonment of a surrogate-born baby with Down syndrome.The disco Study: Wide hospital quality gap on maternity care 08/07/2014 01:02am • RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Where a woman delivers her baby can make a major difference to her own health -- a quality gap that remains largely hidden from mothers-to-be.A new study comparing hospitals nationwide finds that women who delivered at low-performing facili VA executive: Wait times can be fixed in 2 years 08/06/2014 07:54pm • DAN ELLIOTT Associated Press DENVER (AP) -- Long wait times for veterans to get health care can be cleared up in two years, along with investigations of employees accused of falsifying data to hide the problem, Deputy Veterans Affairs Secretary Sloan Gibson said Wednesday.Gibson, who toured the Denv SAfrica: Grim end for antelopes from Czech zoo 08/06/2014 12:00pm • CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- Eight antelopes from a zoo in the Czech Republic were flown in crates to South Africa, where officials concluded they were illegally imported and that they might bring a disease into the country. They languished in a cargo hold for two days b