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New go-to career for New England’s young: Farming

CRANSTON, R.I. – Farming is hip in New England. Across the region, young people are choosing crops over cubicles, new farms are popping up and the local food movement is spreadin...

Coffee shop on honor system works in N. Dakota

VALLEY CITY, N.D. – The owner of a North Dakota coffee shop is flattered his decision to operate the business on the honor system garnered international attention earlier this summer, but t...

90 years on, push for ERA ratification goes on

Drafted by a suffragette in 1923, the Equal Rights Amendment has been stirring up controversy ever since. Many opponents considered it dead when a 10-year ratification push failed in 1982, y...

Buffett heir buys icon’s archive

DETROIT – Hundreds of items that belonged to civil-rights icon Rosa Parks and have been sitting unseen for years in a New York warehouse were sold to a foundation run by the son of billionai...

U.S. consumer spending dips 0.1 percent

WASHINGTON – U.S. consumer spending fell in July, with a drop in auto purchases accounting for most of the weakness. Income growth also slowed. Consumer spending edged down 0.1 pe...

Obama cautions against using force to solve crises

WASHINGTON – Faced with deepening crises in the Middle East and Ukraine, President Barack Obama is putting the brakes on the notion that American military power can solve either conflict. ...

Obama says Russia responsible for Ukraine violence

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is blaming Russia for the escalating violence in eastern Ukraine. Obama is speaking at the White House amid escalating tensions between Russia ...

WHO: Ebola outbreak in Africa could grow worse

GENEVA – The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is accelerating and could grow six times larger to infect as many as 20,000 people, the World Health Organization said Thursday. The U.N. health ag...

Ukraine fighting intensifies

West accuses Russia of lying, says its troops are in country

Nation Briefs

BLM to issue drilling leases in California SAN FRANCISCO – The U.S. Bureau of Land Management will resume issuing oil and gas leases next year for federal lands in California afte...

World Briefs

Europe offering to help keep peace in Gaza JERUSALEM – European nations are offering to help enforce the cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, a scenario that could provide key internatio...

Obama: No ‘strategy yet’ on Islamic State

President suggests he’s not ready to approve airstrikes inside Syria
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