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Military hearing on Bergdahl desertion charges begins

HOUSTON – A hearing to decide if Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl should face a military trial for leaving his post in Afghanistan began Thursday – proceedings that his lead lawyer said would reveal detai...

Earth smashes global heat records

WASHINGTON – Earth’s record-breaking heat is sounding an awful lot like a broken record. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday that August, this p...

GOP candidates debate Russia, immigration – and Trump

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. – Along with the back-and-forth bickering over Donald Trump, the Republican primary took a substantive and serious turn in Wednesday’s prime-time debate, with candidates ...

Strong quake shakes Chile capital, causing buildings to sway

SANTIAGO, Chile – A powerful magnitude-8.3 earthquake hit off Chile’s northern coast Wednesday night, causing buildings to sway in Santiago and other cities and sending people running into t...

Contenders on undercard try to shine

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. – The four Republican presidential contenders who didn’t make the cut for the 11-person prime-time GOP debate met Wednesday for an undercard event at the Ronald Reagan pr...

Outcry after Muslim teen is detained over homemade clock

IRVING, Texas – A 14-year-old Muslim boy became a sensation on social media Wednesday and got an invitation to the White House after word spread that he had been placed in handcuffs and susp...

Study: Air pollution kills 3.3 million worldwide, may double

WASHINGTON – Air pollution is killing 3.3 million people a year worldwide, according to a new study that includes this surprise: Farming plays a large role in smog and soot deaths in industr...

Nation & World Briefs

Court halts execution of Oklahoma man McALESTER, Okla. – An appeals court halted the execution of an Oklahoma man with just hours to spare Wednesday after his attorneys said they ...

Did the government exaggerate progress against Islamic State?

WASHINGTON – The top U.S. military commander for the Middle East vowed Wednesday to take “appropriate action” if an investigation finds that senior defense officials altered intelligence rep...

College shooting suspect left apology

GAUTIER, Miss. – A university instructor told police he killed his girlfriend at the home they shared in Mississippi, where investigators found a note that said, “I am so sorry,” and gave no...

World Briefs

North Korea says all fuel plants online PYONGYANG, North Korea – North Korea declared Tuesday it has upgraded and restarted all of its atomic fuel plants – meaning it could possib...

Clashes at Jerusalem holy site for third straight day

JERUSALEM – Israeli police clashed with Palestinian protesters on Tuesday in a third straight day of unrest at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site. Police entered the Al-Aqsa mos...
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