Health care is back on ballot for 2016
Presidential candidates offering wide range of reform options
DATE: Oct 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Neighbors recall gunman as ‘anxious’
Oregon shooter had researched IRA group
DATE: Oct 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Ferguson report urges training
Recommendations made on police response to protests
DATE: Oct 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Nation Briefs
U.S. to examine Colorado prisons
WASHINGTON – Senior U.S. officials say a Defense Department team will be visiting a state and a federal prison in Colorado to assess their possi...
DATE: Oct 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
World Briefs
Taliban call capture of city ‘historic event’
KABUL, Afghanistan – The new leader of the Afghan Taliban said Friday that the capture of the northern city of Kunduz this week was ...
DATE: Oct 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Obama says Putin wrong on Syria but no ‘proxy war’
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Friday vehemently rejected Russia’s military actions in Syria as self-defeating and dismissed the idea that Moscow was strengthening its hand in the re...
DATE: Oct 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
U.S. hiring slowed in September as global economy weakened
WASHINGTON – U.S. employers cut back sharply on hiring in September and added fewer jobs in July and August than previously thought – a sour note for a labor market that had been steadily im...
DATE: Oct 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Education Secretary Arne Duncan steps down
WASHINGTON – Arne Duncan, who followed President Barack Obama to Washington to serve as his education secretary, announced Friday he will step down following a seven-year tenure marked by a ...
DATE: Oct 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Officials lower toll in Oregon shooting
ROSEBURG, Ore. – A gunman opened fire inside a classroom at a rural Oregon community college Thursday, killing at least nine people before dying in a shootout with police, authorities said. ...
DATE: Oct 1, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
‘Somehow this has become routine’
Obama: Our ‘political choices’ let this happen
DATE: Oct 1, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Nation Briefs
Photos show canyons on Pluto’s big moon
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Pluto’s big moon, Charon, is being revealed in all its rugged glory.
NASA released the best color pictur...
DATE: Oct 1, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Toll from Saudi stampede may be higher
TEHRAN, Iran – The death toll in the Saudi hajj disaster rose sharply Thursday as Iran announced 465 of its pilgrims died in last week’s stampede and crush, nearly doubling its earlier count...
DATE: Oct 1, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
