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December employment gain caps best year for US labor market since 1999

By Shobhana Chandra © 2015, Bloomberg News A rise in employment and a falling jobless rate in December capped the best year for the labor market since 1999 and reinforc...

French police kill gunmen in twin attacks, free 16 hostages

By LORI HINNANT and ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press PARIS – With explosions and gunfire, security forces Friday ended three days of terror around Paris, killing the two ...

GOP set to challenge Obama’s veto threats

Republicans OK pipeline, limits on Obamacare

U.S. knew about suspects in deadly attack in Paris

PARIS – The two French brothers wanted in the newspaper-office bloodbath in Paris already were known to U.S. counterterrorism authorities and had been put on the American no-fly list, a seni...

Many could lose food stamp benefits

Improving economy will hurt many recipients without jobs

Nation & World Briefs

Obama proposing free tuition program WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Thursday proposed making community college free “for everybody who is willing to work for it.” ...

Obama pushes homeownership steps in once hard-hit Arizona

PHOENIX – Standing at the epicenter of the nation’s recent housing crisis, President Barack Obama on Thursday promoted plans to lower some mortgage insurance premiums, a move the White House...

Vermont governor re-elected after failing to win majority

MONTPELIER, Vt. – Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin was sworn in to a third two-year term after his failure to win a majority of the popular vote in November forced state lawmakers to decide the w...

French police detain 9 in massive hunt for 2 suspects

PARIS – Frightened yet defiant, French residents held a day of mourning Thursday for 12 people slain at a Paris newspaper. French police hunted for the two heavily armed brothers suspected i...

Attack highlights clash of cultures

Press freedom not welcome everywhere

House session gets off to rocky start

Boehner votes divides GOP members

World Briefs

Storm brings snow to parts of Mideast ANJAR, Lebanon – Snow fell in parts of the Middle East on Wednesday as a powerful winter storm swept through the region, killing two Syrian r...
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