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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...

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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...

Unmanned control towers taking off

Experts say systems are coming soon

Hungary arrests desperate refugees

HORGOS, Serbia - After shutting down the main corridor for refugees to central Europe and fortifying its border with 109 miles of razor-wire fencing, Hungary on Tuesday began mass arrests of...

As Fed meets, decision on rate hike seems like a toss-up

WASHINGTON – Will they or won’t they? Nine years after they last raised their benchmark interest rate and after months of feverish speculation, Federal Reserve policymakers this w...

Interior Dept.: High-risk oil, gas wells checks lack funding

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Bureau of Land Management lacks sufficient resources to inspect high-risk oil and gas wells on federal land as a drilling boom continues in Wyoming, Colorado and other ...

Nation Briefs

HP to jettison up to 30,000 jobs in spinoff SAN FRANCISCO – Hewlett-Packard says its upcoming spinoff of its technology divisions focused on software, consulting and data analysis...

Scott Walker plans to bar unions on a federal level

MADISON, Wis. – Republican presidential contender Scott Walker is hoping to pull his campaign off the mat by taking on unions – a familiar foe for the Wisconsin governor – in a sweeping plan...
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