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Amtrak engineer recalls speeding up before crash WASHINGTON – The last thing Amtrak engineer Brandon Bostian remembers before last May’s fatal crash in Philadelphia is pushing the...

Democratic, GOP races tight as Iowa kicks off 2016 voting

DES MOINES, Iowa – In a high-stakes test of enthusiasm versus organization, Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders hope to ride voter energy into victories in Monday’s Iowa cauc...

U.S. consumer spending flat, savings rate at 3-year high

WASHINGTON – U.S. consumers kept their spending flat in December and instead boosted their savings rate to the highest level in three years. Consumer spending was unchanged in Dec...

Nation & World Briefs

Dozens killed by triple bomb attack in Syria GENEVA – A triple bombing killed at least 50 people in a predominantly Shiite suburb south of the Syrian capital of Damascus on Sunday...

Turnout is name of the game in Monday’s Iowa caucuses

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa – In a final frenzy to inspire supporters to turn out for Monday’s Iowa caucuses, the presidential contenders scrambled to close the deal with the first voters to have ...

For Brazil’s rich and poor, disparate response to Zika

RIO DE JANEIRO – Two Brazilian women, two pregnancies, one nightmare. But two very different stories. Regina de Lima and Tainara Lourenco became pregnant at a scary moment – the d...

Jewel-pilfering Doris Payne reflects on life

ATLANTA – Doris Payne exudes a seemingly effortless elegance, her white hair neatly smoothed back and gold hoops dangling from her ears. She speaks calmly and deliberately, inspiring the kin...

Report: Some 2,300 journalists killed in past 25 years

BRUSSELS – In the last quarter century, at least 2,297 journalists and media staff have been killed for doing nothing more than trying to inform the world on war, revolution, crime and corru...

Israel’s liberal artists decry attempts to limit expression

JERUSALEM – Israel’s cultural class is increasingly alarmed by what many see as a tightening noose on freedom of expression, as a hard-line government minister seeks to cut off funding for a...

Obama forced again to rethink troop numbers in Afghanistan

WASHINGTON – Fifteen years into the war that few Americans talk about anymore, conditions in Afghanistan are getting worse, preventing the clean ending that President Barack Obama hoped to i...

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Bank of Japan moves to bolster Abenomics TOKYO – The government and ruling parties welcomed the Bank of Japan’s decision to adopt a negative interest rate policy, expecting it to ...

‘Affluenza’ family’s history of legal woes

Psychologist suggested taking boy from parents
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