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Flooding could recharge dry soil

Agriculture industry waiting for water to recede to assess damage

Storm toll mounts in Mexico

ACAPULCO, Mexico – The toll from devastating twin storms climbed to 80 on Wednesday as isolated areas reported deaths and damage to the outside world, and Mexican officials said that a mass...

Fed’s bond pledge charges up investors

Stocks soar to record high

Globe swelters through 5th-warmest summer on record

The world had its fifth-warmest summer since records began in 1880, the National Climatic Data Center reported Tuesday. Specifically, the temperature over global land and ocean su...

’Hiccup Girl’ on trial on murder charge in Florida

CLEARWATER, Fla. – A Florida woman who appeared on several national television programs as a teen because of her uncontrollable hiccupping went on trial on a murder charge on Tuesday. ...

Congress looks to relax mandatory prison terms

WASHINGTON – Every weekend, Cindy Martinson treks from her home in Mason City, Iowa, about 160 miles roundtrip to Waseca, Minn. She visits the federal prison there, where her daughter Mandy ...

New study warns of U.S. long-term debt problems

WASHINGTON – The government could run out of cash to pay its bills in full and on time sometime between the end of October and the middle of November if lawmakers fail to increase its $16.7 ...

Internet blocks return in Iran after brief opening

TEHRAN, Iran – Word of the opening of Iran’s blocked social media sites was spread, of course, by social media itself: in celebratory tweets and breathless Facebook posts. Hours later, the s...

U.N. official: World failing over climate change

LONDON – International leaders are failing in their fight against global warming, one of the United Nations’ top climate officials said Tuesday, appealing directly to the world’s voters to p...

Nation/World Briefs

Republican seek delay of health-care law WASHINGTON – Implacable Republican opposition to Obamacare has Congress once more veering closer to gridlock. In the House, mor...

Russia rejects use of force in Syria

DAMASCUS, Syria – Russia insisted Tuesday that a U.N. Security Council resolution governing Syria’s handling of its chemical weapons not allow the use of force, but it suggested that could c...

White House criticizes lawmakers opposing gun bill

Associated Press WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s spokesman on Tuesday criticized lawmakers who have stood in the way of expanded background checks for gun purchases and said...
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