July 24, 2005 in Idaho on Page A1 BOISE – Idaho’s sex offender law has a major gap – it methodically identifies the worst, most violent offenders who are most likely to reoffend, but then allows them to …

July 24, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A1 BOSTON – The priests came from three states, converging on a suburban park one Sunday to conduct an outdoor Mass. Wearing white vestments with rainbow-hued stoles, they led the worshippers …

July 24, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A3 MIAMI – The countdown clock ticked back into action Saturday as NASA tried again to launch Discovery on the first shuttle mission since the loss of Columbia and its crew …

July 24, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – Americans are far more likely than the Japanese to expect another world war in their lifetime, according to AP-Kyodo polling 60 years after World War II ended. Most …

July 24, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A4 Grapevine, Texas The editor in chief of Time Inc. on Saturday defended his decision to surrender a reporter’s notes to a federal prosecutor investigating the unmasking of a CIA agent.

July 24, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A5 CHICAGO – Labor’s toughest negotiators are turning their bruising tactics on each other, playing a high-stakes game of chicken inside the AFL-CIO at a perilous time for the long-fading union …

July 24, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A5 ROANOKE, Va. – Wal-Mart has ditched a program that helped single shoppers find love in the discount store’s aisles. Officials at Wal-Mart headquarters in Bentonville, Ark., ordered their Roanoke store …

July 24, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A6 Tehran, Iran More than 13,000 Iranian students and academics signed petitions urging Iranian president Mohammad Khatami to resume the country’s suspended uranium enrichment efforts, state-run radio reported Saturday.

July 24, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A6 KABUL, Afghanistan – Fierce fighting in recent months has devastated the ranks of the Taliban, prompting the rebels to recruit children and force some families to provide one son to …

July 24, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A9 Clarence Dennis, heart surgery pioneer, 96 Dr. Clarence Dennis, who performed the first open-heart surgery that included the use of a heart-lung machine, which he helped develop, has died. He …

July 24, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A10 SALT LAKE CITY – Fire crews on Saturday quelled a 17,000-acre fire that had threatened a town in southwestern Utah while authorities lifted evacuation orders in a nearby community that …

July 24, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A12 BRANFORD, Conn. – An 82-year-old man who went clamming in the Long Island Sound says he made the ultimate catch: the wedding ring he lost two years ago. Stewart Petrie …

July 24, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A12 FORT MYERS, Fla. – A judge has overruled a mother’s religious objections and ordered a blood transfusion for a 12-year-old boy who is battling sickle cell anemia. The boy’s mother, …