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South African creature shows evolution in action

Ancestor mixed human and apelike traits

Soviet Mars craft may be found

LOS ANGELES – Space fans from Russia scanning NASA images have spotted what may be a Soviet spacecraft that landed on Mars in 1971 and then mysteriously stopped working. Pho...

Rise of anti-Thatcher tune challenges BBC

LONDON – Opponents of the late Margaret Thatcher are taking a kind of musical revenge on the former prime minister, pushing the song “Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead” up the Brit...

Auction of Hopi masks decried

Paris sale includes dozens of artifacts with religious significance

Nation Briefs

Obama earns less in 2012, pays $112,000 in taxes WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama made less in 2012 than in any other year since taking office, with about 40 percent of th...

U.S. says North Korea’s nuclear firepower limited

Likelihood of missile launch is strong, defense official says

Bipartisan bill would ease state-federal marijuana conflict

SEATTLE – A bill introduced Friday in Congress would fix the conflict between the federal government’s marijuana prohibition and state laws that allow medical or recreational use. ...

Kerry to North Korea: Don’t test missile

SEOUL, South Korea – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivered a stark warning to North Korea on Friday not to test-fire a mid-range missile, while rejecting a new U.S. intelligence ...

Groundbreaking improv comic Jonathan Winters dies

LOS ANGELES – Jonathan Winters, the cherub-faced comedian whose breakneck improvisations and misfit characters inspired the likes of Robin Williams and Jim Carrey, has died. He was 87. ...

World Briefs

Chavez heir sees lead narrow before election CARACAS, Venezuela – Red-shirted backers of Hugo Chavez’s chosen heir transformed downtown Caracas into a raucous festival o...

U.S. intelligence: N. Korea may have nuclear warhead

WASHINGTON – With newly revealed U.S. intelligence showing that North Korea may already be able to arm a missile with a nuclear warhead, President Barack Obama said Thursday that North ...

Global warming not cause of U.S. drought, study says

WASHINGTON – Last year’s huge drought was a freak of nature that wasn’t caused by human-made global warming, a new federal science study finds. Scientists say the l...
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