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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...

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

EU begins shipping migrants in Greece back to Turkey

ATHENS, Greece – A controversial European Union plan to stem the flow of refugees began Monday with the deportation of more than 200 people from Greek islands to Turkey, despite concerns ove...

California, New York enact US-highest $15 minimum wages

LOS ANGELES – California and New York acted Monday to gradually push their statewide minimum wages to $15 an hour – the highest in the nation – as Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders again se...

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Two Guantanamo Bay detainees sent to Senegal WASHINGTON - The Pentagon has transferred two Libyan detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Senegal, Defense Department officials said on Mon...

Trump and Cruz making final pitches to Wisconsin voters

MILWAUKEE – After Donald Trump’s toughest stretch of the campaign, he and Ted Cruz made spirited final pitches Monday to Wisconsin voters, who will cast ballots Tuesday in a Republican prima...

Princeton to keep Woodrow Wilson’s name despite his racist views

PRINCETON, N.J. – Woodrow Wilson’s name will remain on Princeton University’s public policy school, despite calls to remove it because the former U.S. president was a segregationist, the Ivy...

Court upholds total population count in electoral districts

WASHINGTON – A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Monday that states can count everyone, not just eligible voters, in deciding how to draw electoral districts. The justices turned back...
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