Life-size sculptures take to the streets
Artist’s work turns heads in New York
DATE: Jun 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Senate vote moves Obama’s trade agenda to brink of enactment
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s long-pursued trade agenda took a giant step toward becoming law on Tuesday, and opponents grudgingly conceded they now must fight on less-favorable terr...
DATE: Jun 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
U.S. chides China but avoids clouding cooperation
WASHINGTON – The United States voiced deep concern Tuesday over state-sponsored cybertheft and tension in the disputed seas of East Asia but did not let the sharp disagreements with China on...
DATE: Jun 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Nation Briefs
S.C. governor: Remove Confederate flag
CHARLESTON, S.C. – South Carolina’s governor declared Monday that the Confederate flag should be removed from the Statehouse grounds as she...
DATE: Jun 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Hundreds of firefighters join battle against Calif. fire
Lake Tahoe blaze has burned nearly 9,500 acres
DATE: Jun 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Obama says racism in U.S. ‘not cured’
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama says the history of slavery and segregation is “still part of our DNA” in the United States, even if racial epithets no longer show up in polite conversat...
DATE: Jun 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
World Briefs
Taliban attacks Afghan parliament
KABUL, Afghanistan – A Taliban suicide bomber struck the entrance to the Afghan parliament Monday, and gunmen tried to storm the heavily guarded ...
DATE: Jun 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Help for Hemingway on the way from the U.S.
Supplies to be sent to build conservation lab
DATE: Jun 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Greek debt: Europe cautiously optimistic
BRUSSELS – Greece has finally offered economic reforms that creditors consider potentially acceptable, giving Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras a couple days to turn a spirit of goodwill into a ...
DATE: Jun 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Carter: U.S. to provide weapons, aircraft, commandos for NATO
MUNSTER, Germany – The U.S. will contribute weapons, aircraft and forces, including commandos, for NATO’s rapid reaction force, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Monday, to help Europe defen...
DATE: Jun 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Apple to extend olive branch
Taylor Swift letter prompts firm to change payout policy
DATE: Jun 21, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Nation & World Briefs
Few clues in fatal Detroit party shooting
DETROIT – A wall of silence surrounds a shootout at a block party in Detroit that left a 19-year-old gunman dead and 11 other people woun...
DATE: Jun 21, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
