Oil-spill funds spread far past coast
Payments help governments hurt by 2010 BP accident
DATE: Aug 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Iran looking forward to magic carpet ride
Sanctions have hurt country’s industry
DATE: Aug 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Cheers! Liquor experiment arrives at space station
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Spirits arrived at the International Space Station on Monday. Not the ghostly ones, but the kind you drink – distilled spirits.
The six astronauts won’t be ...
DATE: Aug 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
France honors heroic train passengers
President: Men ‘gave a lesson in courage’
DATE: Aug 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Tardy tax filers risk loss of health-care subsidies
WASHINGTON – Sign-up season for President Barack Obama’s health-care law doesn’t start for another couple of months, but the next few days are crucial for hundreds of thousands of customers ...
DATE: Aug 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Korean standoff eases after countries OK deal
SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea agreed to lift its “semi-state of war” with South Korea at the same time as the South halts propaganda broadcasts across their heavily fortified border, endi...
DATE: Aug 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Stock market extends its slide for 2nd week
Dow ends down 588 after early 1,000-point fall
DATE: Aug 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Nation Briefs
U.S. stealth fighters to train in Europe
WASHINGTON – Air Force officials say they will soon be deploying stealthy, high-tech F-22 fighter jets to Europe to train with other natio...
DATE: Aug 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
World Briefs
Hacked cheating website offers reward
TORONTO – The company behind the adultery website Ashley Madison is offering a $500,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a gr...
DATE: Aug 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Is a tough presidential decision ahead?
Obama may have to decide who to back if Biden challenges Clinton
DATE: Aug 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Hispanic Republicans credit Trump with forcing candidates' hands
Michael Parra, a Hispanic Republican from Colorado, doesn’t agree with all the hard-line positions on immigration taken by Donald Trump, including the deportation of 11 million undocumented ...
DATE: Aug 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Nation Briefs
Twin panda cubs’ chances looking good
WASHINGTON – In more than three decades of trying to breed pandas at the National Zoo, there’s been plenty of heartbreak. More cubs born in ...
DATE: Aug 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
