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FCC signs off on AT&T-DirecTV merger, creating pay-TV behemoth

WASHINGTON – The Federal Communications Commission voted Friday to approve AT&T’s $49 billion acquisition of DirecTV, blessing the biggest merger of the year and ending a months-long negotia...

Pluto incredibly hazy with flowing ice

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Pluto is hazier than scientists expected and appears to be covered with flowing ice. The team responsible for the New Horizons flyby of Pluto last week rele...

Texas jail death highlights frequency of inmate suicides

DALLAS – When Sandra Bland died in a small Texas jail last week, she became just the latest name on a long list of inmates whose deaths were determined to be suicides. Bland’s dea...

Nation Briefs

Hacking threat spurs vehicle recall by Fiat DETROIT – Fiat Chrysler has decided to recall about 1.4 million cars and trucks in the U.S. just days after two hackers revealed that t...

Gunman known as angry man

TV show host says theater shooter ‘had screw loose’

World Briefs

Burundi president wins another term BUJUMBURA, Burundi – Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza has won a third term in office, an electoral official announced Friday, amid controv...

New probe of Clinton emails sought

U.S. intelligence agencies fear classified data was compromised

Crisis takes toll on Greek shops

Thousands of businesses have closed

Turkey strikes IS targets in Syria

ANKARA, Turkey – In a major tactical shift, Turkish warplanes struck Islamic State group targets Friday across the border in Syria, Turkish officials announced – a move that came a day after...

President visits with family

Obama returns to his father’s homeland

Pet porkers packing pig rescues

Animals tend to grow bigger than their owners expect

Nuns bake cheesecakes to help support monastery

CAMBRIDGE, N.Y. – Amid quiet lives of prayer, a handful of nuns have sliced out a niche as bakers of high-end cheesecakes, so rich and creamy in flavors of chocolate, amaretto and key lime t...
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