Trump campaign plans to shift gears
Clinton says she will get tougher with rival Sanders
DATE: Apr 6, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Nation & World Briefs
U.S. agrees to remove 4 hydroelectric dams
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Endangered salmon blocked for nearly a century from hundreds of miles of the Klamath River in Oregon and California are expect...
DATE: Apr 6, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
White House: $589M to go to fight Zika virus
WASHINGTON – Federal money left over from the largely successful fight against Ebola will now go to combating the growing threat of the Zika virus, the Obama administration announced Wednesd...
DATE: Apr 6, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Allergan, Pfizer call off proposed $160B merger
The biggest U.S.-based drugmaker, Pfizer Inc., will stay put thanks to aggressive new Treasury Department rules that succeeded in blocking Pfizer from acquiring rival Allergan and moving to ...
DATE: Apr 6, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
April’s stormy history of deadly violence
Crime experts note spring month is often linked to extremist violence
DATE: Apr 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Wisconsin gives Cruz, Sanders new hope
Presidential candidates deal new blows to front-runners
DATE: Apr 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Iceland’s prime minister resigns amid scandal
LONDON – The leak of millions of records on offshore accounts claimed its first high-profile victim Tuesday as Iceland’s prime minister resigned amid outrage over revelations he had used suc...
DATE: Apr 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
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San Francisco approves family-leave ordinance
SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco has approved a measure making it the first place in the nation to require businesses to provide fully paid leave f...
DATE: Apr 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Archivist gets Wright answer Missing patent papers for brothers’ ‘Flying Machine’ found
The beat-up manila envelope sat on a table in the National Archives office in Kansas City, Missouri. It had just been fetched from a limestone cave outside of town, and conservator Lauren Va...
DATE: Apr 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
GOP senator meets with Garland, says hearings should be held
WASHINGTON – A Republican senator said Tuesday she is “more convinced than ever” that there should be hearings on President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee after meeting with Judge Merr...
DATE: Apr 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Increase in threats reported at U.S. abortion clinics
NEW YORK – Threats and violence directed at U.S. abortion clinics increased sharply in 2015, according to the National Abortion Federation, which attributed the surge to the release of under...
DATE: Apr 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Destruction, razed monastery left behind by IS in Syria town
QARYATAIN, Syria – Syrian troops fired their guns in celebration amid smoldering buildings inside the town of Qaryatain on Monday, hours after recapturing it from retreating Islamic State mi...
DATE: Apr 4, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
