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Sarah Palin jumps into 2016 race, endorses Donald Trump

AMES, Iowa – Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump received a key endorsement Tuesday from conservative heavyweight Sarah Palin, giving the billionaire businessman a potential bo...

FBI says violent crime on rise

WASHINGTON – Violent crime rose across the country in the first six months of 2015 compared to the same period the year before, according to preliminary data released Tuesday by the FBI. ...

Insurance customers begin new year with delays

Thousands of health insurance consumers around the country have started the new year dealing with missing ID cards, billing errors and other problems tied to an enrollment surge at the end o...

British Parliament pummels Donald Trump

But it doesn’t ban him from Britain

Eagles co-founder Glenn Frey dead at 67

NEW YORK – Glenn Frey, a rock ‘n’ roll rebel from Detroit who journeyed West, co-founded the Eagles and with Don Henley formed one of history’s most successful songwriting teams with such hi...

U.S. military releases first account of sailors’ Iran detention

WASHINGTON – In its first official account of Iran’s seizure and subsequent release of 10 U.S. sailors in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. military said Monday the only items found missing from th...

Confederate flag’s removal turns Martin Luther King Day Jr. into celebration in South Carolina

COLUMBIA, S.C. – For the first time in 17 years, civil rights leaders gathered Monday at the South Carolina Statehouse to pay homage to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. without the Confederat...

Abduction of Americans in Iraq raises fears about security

BAGHDAD – The abduction of three Americans from a Baghdad apartment over the weekend is the latest in a series of brazen high-profile kidnappings undermining confidence in the Iraqi governme...

Nation Briefs

Facing fight from Sanders, Clinton embraces Obama COLUMBIA, S.C. – Facing fresh campaign anxieties, Hillary Clinton is attaching herself to President Barack Obama, hoping to overc...

As Iowa looms, GOP wonders: does Trump have fans, or voters?

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa – It’s the No. 1 question headed into the primary season: Does Donald Trump merely have fans, or does the national front-runner for the Republican presidential nominati...

More quakes rattle Oklahoma but state avoids tough measures

OKLAHOMA CITY – In Oklahoma, now the country’s earthquake capital, people are talking nervously about the big one as human-made quakes get stronger, more frequent and closer to major populat...

Will global woes and sinking stocks lead to recession?

Most economists confident U.S. will weather the storm
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