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Cheering Cubans greet first cruise ship from US in decades

HAVANA – Greeted with rum drinks and salsa dancers, the first passengers to cruise from the U.S. to Cuba in nearly 40 years streamed Monday into a crowd cheering the rebirth of commercial tr...

Playground concussions are on the rise

CHICAGO – Playground concussions are on the rise, according to a new government study, and monkey bars and swings are most often involved. Most injuries studied were mild, but all...

Mystery solved? Australian says he’s Bitcoin founder

LONDON – An Australian man long rumored to be associated with the digital currency Bitcoin has publicly identified himself as its creator, a claim that would end one of the biggest mysteries...

Cruz again bests Trump at most weekend delegate contests

Even as his campaign struggles for survival, Sen. Ted Cruz dominated weekend delegate selection contests that he and other Republicans hope could block Donald Trump from winning the party’s ...

Protests disband after IS group carries out 2nd Iraq bombing

BAGHDAD – Anti-government protesters disbanded at least temporarily Sunday from the heavily fortified Green Zone they had stormed a day earlier after the Islamic State group carried out its ...

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Death toll of collapsed building up to 20 in Kenya NAIROBI, Kenya – Kenyan rescuers continued searching for survivors Sunday of a residential building in an impoverished area that collapsed ...

U.S. once again forced to turn to Russia for help on Syria

GENEVA – Scrambling to resuscitate a nearly dead truce in Syria, the Obama administration has again been forced to turn to Russia for help, with little hope for its desired outcome. ...

Across Ariz., parents name children after Pat Tillman

Football star died in 2004

Clinton, Trump angle for advantage in politics of gender

WASHINGTON – She has no stamina. She shouts. She’s got nothing going for her but being a woman. Donald Trump, after toying with gender politics off and on during the campaign, is ...

Nation Briefs

Woman, 4 children killed in Texas flood PALESTINE, Texas – A 64-year-old woman and four grandchildren were killed early Saturday after a creek overflowed its banks, flooding an East Texas ne...

Kenya sets fire to ivory tusks

Burning a protest against poaching

Iraqi protesters pour into Green Zone, storm parliament

BAGHDAD – Anti-government protesters tore down walls and poured into the Iraqi capital’s heavily fortified Green Zone on Saturday, where they stormed parliament in a major escalation of a po...
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