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Protest nixed after ‘greased pig’ revealed

NEWPORT, N.H. – An international animal advocacy group launched a protest against a New Hampshire winter carnival event billed as a “Greased Pig on Ice,” but withdrew it after learning ther...

Smithsonian gives virtual look inside Apollo 11

WASHINGTON – They are bits of space graffiti hidden from the public for decades: a crude calendar, scrawled lunar coordinates and markings warning of a locker containing “smelly waste.” ...

Desert sites get new protection

Obama gives 1.8M acres in California national monument status

U.S. retail sales rise as consumers shrug off stock price drop

WASHINGTON – U.S. retail sales rose modestly in January, evidence that Americans kept shopping despite sharp drops in stock prices. The Commerce Department said Friday that reta...

Doctors can’t explain declining risk of dementia

Dementia is on the decline, the risk of developing it dropping 20 percent per decade since the late 1970s, according to a striking new study published Wednesday in the New England Journal of...

North Korea cuts more ties with South

Says Seoul declared war by ending business park operations

Prison riot in Mexico leaves scores dead

Families seek information about inmates

World Briefs

NATO ships to help with refugee mission BRUSSELS – In a dramatic response to Europe’s gravest refugee crisis since World War II, NATO ordered three warships to sail immediately Th...

Nation Briefs

Holdout occupiers in Oregon surrender BURNS, Ore. – Surrounded by FBI agents in armored vehicles, the last four occupiers of a national nature preserve surrendered Thursday, and...

Dem candidates target minority voters

Clinton raises questions about price tag of Sanders’ proposals

Astronomers hail detection of Einstein’s gravitational waves

Gravity waves will change how scientists observe universe

Congress gives final OK to banning local Internet taxes

WASHINGTON – Congress voted Thursday to permanently bar state and local governments from taxing access to the Internet, as lawmakers leapt at an election-year chance to demonstrate their opp...
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