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Israel agrees to ‘humanitarian’ pause

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Israel agreed to implement a five-hour “humanitarian” pause in its 9-day-old bombardment of Gaza that has killed more than 200 Palestinians, including four boys struc...

Obama border plan getting little support

As children from Central America pour across the nation’s southwest border, most Americans want to speed up their deportations and disapprove of President Barack Obama’s handling of the situ...

Nation & World Briefs

House bill eases rules on marijuana banking WASHINGTON – The House voted Wednesday in support of making it easier for banks to do business with legal pot shops and providers of m...

GOP blocks bill to reverse ruling on contraception

WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked a bill aimed at restoring free contraception for women who get their health insurance from companies with religious objections, a legisla...

White House defying aide’s congressional subpoena

WASHINGTON – The White House is defying a congressional subpoena by keeping a top political aide to President Barack Obama from testifying at a hearing Wednesday, setting up a potential new ...

Nation Briefs

U.S. may OK sanctions on Russia without EU WASHINGTON – The United States is considering imposing unilateral sanctions on Russia over its threatening moves in Ukraine, a shift in ...

House GOP prepares response to border crisis

WASHINGTON – House Republicans announced Tuesday they will recommend dispatching the National Guard to South Texas and speeding Central American youths back home as their response to the imm...

Proposal will keep highway fund solvent

WASHINGTON – With an August deadline looming, the House voted Tuesday to temporarily patch over a multibillion-dollar pothole in federal highway and transit programs while ducking the issue ...

Note to past self: Please take better care of myself

Voices tinged with regret are echoing in the minds of many aging Americans today who know that getting older offers fewer opportunities for “do-overs” to course-correct their lives. ...

World Briefs

Subway derailment kills several in Moscow MOSCOW – A subway train derailed Tuesday deep below Moscow’s streets, twisting and mangling crowded rail cars at the height of the mornin...

North Korean farmers pressured

Rim Ok Hua looks out over her patch of farm just across the Tumen River from China, where rows of lush, green young potato plants stretch into the distance. As North Korean farmer...

Israel answers Hamas with new attacks

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Israel resumed its bombardment of Gaza on Tuesday and warned that Hamas “would pay the price” after the Islamic militant group rejected an Egyptian truce plan and ins...
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