Members of armed group are arrested
1 killed in shootout during traffic stop
DATE: Jan 26, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Task force recommends how to cut U.S. prisoner count by 60,000
WASHINGTON – The Justice Department should limit the types of cases it brings and more nonviolent criminals should be steered toward probation and away from prison, according to task force r...
DATE: Jan 26, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
U.S. loosens rules for Cuban trade
Decision will also ease travel restrictions
DATE: Jan 26, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Ex-prosecutor to spearhead investigation into Flint water
LANSING, Mich. – A former prosecutor and a retired head of the Detroit FBI will play key roles in an investigation into Flint’s lead-tainted water as part of the effort to seek answers while...
DATE: Jan 25, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Rubio’s Iowa crisscross approach bends caucus campaign norm
DES MOINES, Iowa – Marco Rubio is all over the map in Iowa, literally.
Having spent little time in the state’s rural Christian conservative northwest, the Republican presidential ...
DATE: Jan 25, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Obama contrasts Clinton’s pragmatism with Sanders’ idealism
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is casting the Democratic primary to replace him as a contest between Hillary Clinton’s pragmatism and experience versus Bernie Sanders’ idealism and libe...
DATE: Jan 25, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Nation & World Briefs
Mom, 1-year-old son killed by carbon monoxide
A family in New Jersey, trapped over the weekend in the massive East Coast snowstorm, was trying to dig its way out when the chill be...
DATE: Jan 25, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Bomb in San Bernardino attack was poorly built
WASHINGTON – A homemade bomb left behind by the husband and wife who perpetrated a mass shooting at a California social services center failed to detonate because it was poorly constructed, ...
DATE: Jan 25, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Slippery start to the work week for East Coast commuters
NEW YORK – East Coast residents clobbered by the weekend blizzard trudged into the workweek Monday amid slippery roads, spotty transit service and mounds of snow that buried cars and blocked...
DATE: Jan 25, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
U.S. Supreme Court Justices extend bar on automatic life terms for teenagers
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court ruled Monday that people serving life terms for murders they committed as teenagers must have a chance to seek their freedom, a decision that could affect more...
DATE: Jan 25, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Feds’ failures imperil migrant children in U.S.
LOS ANGELES – As tens of thousands of children fleeing violence in Central America crossed the border in search of safe harbor, overwhelmed U.S. officials weakened child protection policies,...
DATE: Jan 24, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Was 2015 a record wildfire year?
Dispute fans a debate over U.S. forests
DATE: Jan 24, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
