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New concern worldwide as Spanish nurse gets Ebola

WASHINGTON – Raising fresh concern around the world, a nurse in Spain on Monday became the first person known to catch Ebola outside the outbreak zone in West Africa. In the U.S., President ...

Islamic State wages assault on Syrian border town

MURSITPINAR, Turkey – Islamic State fighters backed by tanks and artillery pushed into an embattled Syrian town on the border with Turkey on Monday, touching off heavy street battles with th...

Spanish nurse in Madrid diagnosed with Ebola

MADRID – In the first known transmission of the current outbreak of Ebola outside West Africa, a Spanish nurse who treated a missionary for the disease at a Madrid hospital has tested positi...

3 win medicine Nobel for discovering brain’s GPS

STOCKHOLM – A U.S.-British scientist and a Norwegian husband-and-wife research team won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discovering the brain’s navigation system – the inner GPS that ...

High court denies gay marriage appeals

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court unexpectedly cleared the way Monday for a dramatic expansion of gay marriage in the United States and may have signaled that it’s only a matter of time before ...

Analysis: Supreme Court ruling means battle ‘effectively over’

The Supreme Court’s refusal to take up challenges to laws legalizing gay marriage in five states has an immediate impact: Gay couples in those states can now wed. But it has a longer-term im...

Media goes overtime on Ebola coverage, but not necessarily overboard

WASHINGTON – There’s a potentially deadly disease afoot in America, with no known cure and terrifying consequences for those infected. Ebola? Well, yes, but another bug has had fa...

State-by-state look at gay marriage bans

State bans on same-sex marriages have been falling around the country since summer 2013, when the Supreme Court ordered the federal government to recognize state-sanctioned gay marriages. Th...

Nation & World Briefs

Officials find possible Ebola patient contact DALLAS – A homeless man being sought because of possible contact with the lone U.S. Ebola patient was found Sunday in Texas after sev...

Americans are worried: Can government protect us?

WASHINGTON – Americans lack confidence in the government’s ability to protect their personal safety and economic security, a sign that their widespread unease about the state of the nation e...

Hong Kong heads back to work as protests thin

HONG KONG – Hong Kong’s civil servants returned to work and schools were reopening today as a massive pro-democracy protest that has occupied much of the city center for the week dwindled. ...

Study points at monarchs’ origin

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