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51 countries just released their climate plans - and they're still not enough

When it comes to slowing climate change, it takes more than a village. On Wednesday and Thursday, 51 countries filed their climate action plans with the United Nations, a key step...

Music helps cut pet shelter stress

LOS ANGELES – Can music tame the savage beast? Can it hush puppies and calm kitties? One veterinarian thinks so. Dr. Pamela Fisher has put music in more than 1,100 animal shelters...

Sheriff maintains support for gun rights after mass shooting

ROSEBURG, Ore. – This small town in southern Oregon’s timber country strongly supports gun rights, and that hasn’t changed for the county’s top law enforcement officer since a gunman killed ...

India unveils its climate goals

Country to boost use of renewables

Health care is back on ballot for 2016

Presidential candidates offering wide range of reform options

Neighbors recall gunman as ‘anxious’

Oregon shooter had researched IRA group

Ferguson report urges training

Recommendations made on police response to protests

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...
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