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Fired regulator: Governor pushed to waive oil safeguards

SAN FRANCISCO – California’s top oil and gas regulators repeatedly warned Gov. Jerry Brown’s senior aides in 2011 that the governor’s orders to override key environmental safeguards in grant...

Nation Briefs

U.S. jobless rate falls to 5.1% in August WASHINGTON – U.S. unemployment fell to a seven-year low of 5.1 percent last month, but hiring slowed – a mixed bag of news that offers fe...

Puerto Rico crisis draws attention of candidates

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Puerto Rico’s financial crisis loomed over dueling Friday campaign appearances by Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton and Republican Marco Rubio, two presidential contend...

World Briefs

Finders of gold train appear on Polish TV WARSAW, Poland – Two men appeared on Polish TV Friday saying they are the finders of a Nazi train said to be laden with gold – a claim th...

Judge: Water ruling only affects states that sued

BISMARCK, N.D. – A federal judge in North Dakota said Friday that his injunction blocking a new Obama administration rule aimed at regulating some small waterways applies only to the 13 stat...

Election Briefs

Trump says he will renegotiate Iran deal WASHINGTON – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says that if elected, he would work to improve the “horrible” international ag...

Frustrated refugees trekking to Austria

Migrants complain about treatment in Hungary

Obama, Saudi king discuss Yemen war

Kingdom wants more support for Syrian rebels

Millions of Americans’ wills now available online

BOSTON – Paul Revere left all his household furniture to an unmarried daughter. Harriet Beecher Stowe bequeathed her stock in several railroads and a Florida orange grove to her s...

U.S. employers added 173K jobs in August; rate falls to 5.1 percent

WASHINGTON – The U.S. unemployment rate fell to a seven-year low in August as employers added a modest 173,000 jobs, a key piece of evidence for the Federal Reserve in deciding whether to ra...

Kentucky county clerk plans to appeal jailing

Says licenses aren’t legal without her signature

Nation & World Briefs

Church shooter to face death penalty CHARLESTON, S.C. The white man accused of killing nine black churchgoers in what authorities said was a racially motivated crime during Bibl...
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