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Extremists kill scores in Nigerian town MAIDUGURI, Nigeria – Islamic extremists killed 35 people and kidnapped at least 185 in an attack near the town where nearly 300 schoolgirls...

Court: Obesity can be disability

European companies expected to challenge EU decision

U.S. ties North Korea to hacking of Sony

Studio cancels release of ‘The Interview’

U.S. ready to do business with Cuba

U.S. exports could top $4 billion a year

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Death sentences, executions fall in U.S. WASHINGTON – Executions and new death sentences dropped to their lowest numbers in decades in 2014, an anti-death penalty group said in a ...

U.S., Cuba patch torn relations in historic accord

WASHINGTON – After a half-century of Cold War acrimony, the United States and Cuba abruptly moved on Wednesday to restore diplomatic relations – a historic shift that could revitalize the fl...

Mixed emotions vex 'Pedro Pan' generation after Cuba move

Among the sharpest memories Guillermo “Bill” Vidal has of being sent from his childhood home in Cuba was waiting in the airport. There he was in 1961, he and his two brothers and so many oth...

Aussie leader: System failed to track siege gunman

SYDNEY – Australia’s prime minister acknowledged Wednesday that the nation’s security system failed to keep track of a gunman responsible for a deadly siege at a Sydney cafe, and promised a ...

Obama signs $1.1 trillion spending bill into law

WASHINGTON – With little fanfare to mark a rare bipartisan achievement, President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed a massive, $1.1 trillion spending bill that keeps the government operating ov...

Immigration debate awaits new Congress

Some say GOP must act on issue

Nation Briefs

TSA gets approval to profile passengers WASHINGTON – The Transportation Security Administration needed an exemption from new Obama administration rules restricting racial profilin...

Bush shakes up race for presidency

Ex-governor says he will ‘explore’ running
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