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Privacy groups seek new details on NSA

WASHINGTON – As Congress considers whether to extend the life of a program that sweeps up American phone records, privacy advocates and civil-liberties groups say too much about government s...

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House approves energy-efficiency bill WASHINGTON – The House gave final legislative approval to a long-delayed bill to boost energy efficiency, sending the measure to the White Ho...

DEA chief leaving post under pressure

Her response to prostitution scandal drew criticism

U.S. to investigate death of suspect after arrest

Hundreds protest police mistreatment of blacks

Saudis say Houthis aren’t threat in Yemen

Country to switch tactics in fighting rebels

Court ruling threatens drought-relief efforts

LOS ANGELES – In a ruling that Gov. Jerry Brown said puts a “straitjacket” on local governments trying to fight the severe statewide drought, an appeals court has found that an Orange County...

Still sharp, Hubble telescope turns 25

Orbital camera has changed our understanding of the universe and space itself

Chemistry student draws on love of comics for thesis

MADISON, Wis. – Late last spring, a doctoral student worked late into the night. As she doodled, her chemistry thesis took on a life of its own, transforming into a comic book. Ve...

Vermont examines its hippie culture

Group looks at how state changed in ’70s

Study links swarm of quakes in Texas to natural gas drilling

WASHINGTON – With real-time monitors, scientists have linked a swarm of small earthquakes west of Fort Worth, Texas, to nearby natural gas wells and wastewater injection. In 84 da...

Same-sex marriage opponents urge Supreme Court to go slow

WASHINGTON – Same-sex marriage opponents acknowledge they face a tough task in trying to persuade the Supreme Court to allow states to limit marriage to a man and a woman. But the...

Boat captain, crew member are arrested

CATANIA, Sicily – European leaders struggled for an adequate response in the face of unremitting migrant flows and continued instability in Libya following the feared drowning of as many as ...
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