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Leader admits Ukraine can’t stop insurgent forces

HORLIVKA, Ukraine – Ukraine’s acting president conceded Wednesday that his police and security forces were “helpless” to stifle unrest in the country’s east, where pro-Russia gunmen seized m...

Hundreds rescued from floodwaters in Florida, Alabama

PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. – People were plucked off rooftops or climbed into their attics to get away from fast-rising waters when nearly 2 feet of rain fell on the Florida Panhandle and Alabama...

Botched execution fuels further debate

McALESTER, Okla. - The White House weighed in Wednesday on the debate over the botched execution in Oklahoma as state officials scrambled to untangle what went wrong. Oklahoma Gov...

GOP senators block bill to raise minimum wage

WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans derailed a Democratic drive Wednesday to raise the federal minimum wage, blocking a cornerstone of President Barack Obama’s economic plans and ensuring the is...

Obama approval continues to fall

A new Washington Post-ABC News poll gives President Barack Obama an approval rating of only 41 percent, the lowest mark of his tenure in this survey. That’s down from the 46 perce...

Bomb, mortar attacks kill dozens in Syria

DAMASCUS, Syria – Two car bombs exploded in a pro-government neighborhood in the central Syrian city of Homs Tuesday, killing at least 40 people just hours after one of the deadliest mortar ...

World Briefs

Illegal prisons still exist, Afghan’s Karzai claims KABUL, Afghanistan – President Hamid Karzai accused British and U.S. forces Tuesday of continuing to operate “illegal” detentio...

Court says Knox killed her roommate

MILAN – The Italian appeals court that reinstated the conviction against Amanda Knox in her roommate’s 2007 murder said in a lengthy reasoning made public Tuesday that Knox herself delivered...

Cross-state pollution rule gets court OK

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Tuesday handed the Obama administration an important victory in its effort to reduce power plant pollution in 27 Midwestern and Appalachian states that blow...

Nation Briefs

Oklahoma postpones second execution McALESTER, Okla. – An Oklahoma inmate whose execution was halted Tuesday because the delivery of a new drug combination was botched died of a ...

Doctor: 3 victims critical in Georgia FedEx shootings

KENNESAW, Ga. – An armed package handler with bullets strapped across his chest “like Rambo” opened fire Tuesday morning at a FedEx station outside Atlanta, wounding six people before polic...

Driverless cars sidestep cyclists

Self-driving vehicles years from large-scale production
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