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U.S. pushes for truce as Gaza battle rages

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Israeli troops battled Hamas militants on Wednesday near a southern Gaza Strip town as the top U.S. diplomat reported progress in efforts to end fighting that has so ...

European ministers fear rise of anti-Semitism

BERLIN – The foreign ministers of Germany, France and Italy on Tuesday condemned the rise in anti-Semitic protests and violence over the conflict in Gaza, saying they will do everything poss...

Nation Briefs

Black leaders worry about voter turnout LAS VEGAS – Civilrights leaders at the NAACP’s annual convention worry that black voters won’t show up at voting booths in November this ye...

World Briefs

Suicide bomber kills 21 in Iraqi capital BAGHDAD – A suicide driver rammed his explosive-laden car into a police checkpoint in the Iraqi capital, killing 21 people, including mor...

Big city twister could be catastrophic

A single violent tornado could cause as much as $20 billion in property damage – and countless casualties and deaths – if it hit a big city such as downtown Chicago, according to a report re...

Teams begin ID’ing downed jet’s victims

KHARKIV, Ukraine – A train bearing the dead from the downed Malaysian airliner reached Ukrainian government-held territory at long last Tuesday, but the pro-Russian separatists in control of...

General: Guard troops will observe

McALLEN, Texas – Most of the 1,000 National Guard troops headed to the Texas-Mexico border will take up observational positions and detain people only if they interfere with their mission, a...

Hamas rocket hits near Israeli airport

Many world airlines stop flights to Tel Aviv

NASA renames building for astronaut Neil Armstrong

NASA has honored one of its most famous astronauts by renaming a key building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It now bears the name of Neil Armstrong, the first man to wa...

Employment protection extended

Transgender, gay citizens no longer ‘second class’

Northwest wildlife refuges to phase out neonicotinoids

GRANTS PASS, Ore. – Federal wildlife refuges in the Northwest and Hawaii will phase out a class of pesticides that are chemically similar to nicotine because they pose a threat to bees and o...

Nation & World Briefs

Obama urges access to Ukraine crash site WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama sternly called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to compel Kremlin-backed separatists to stop hamper...
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