Nation & World
Nation & World
Suspect in Las Vegas Strip crash is distraught, attorney says
Lakeisha N. Holloway, third from left, leaves the courtroom as one of her public defenders, Scott Coffee, left, looks on following her arraignment in district court Wednesday.Chase Stevens/Associated Press Lakeisha…
Nation & World
Tornado touches down in Mississippi as storm hits South
Construction workers John Croft, from left, Michael Edwards and Lee Croft, repair damage to the roof of a chicken house along Arkansas 247 north of Atkins, Ark., near where a…
Nation & World
Nation & World Briefs
IOWA CITY, Iowa – A prominent lottery official who has run the Powerball game since its inception was quietly removed from his 28-year post leading the Multi-State Lottery Association after…
Nation & World
UK to investigate report U.S. denied Muslim family entry
Cameron The issue is sensitive because U.S. Republican presidential contender Donald Trump has called for a temporary ban on Muslims visiting the U.S. because of concerns about extremist attacks. Stella…
Nation & World
Airlines hope to weather holiday storm
Companies add flights, but rain and snow could delay travelers
Nation & World
Minneapolis protesters disrupt mall, airport
Airport officials said access to one of two terminals was blocked, which also caused backups on nearby roads. Some protesters took a light-rail train to the airport from the Mall…
Nation & World
U.S. consumer spending and incomes up in November
U.S. consumer spending rebounded in November after a weak showing in October, while a key inflation gauge posted the fastest year-over-year increase in 11 months.Ben Margot/Associated Press file photo Spending…
Nation & World
Support for legal abortion at highest level in 2 years
A new poll shows that Republicans are still deeply divided on abortion with 70 percent of conservative Republicans wanting it to be illegal while 60 percent of moderate and liberals…
Nation & World
Nation & World Briefs
Mourners set up a makeshift memorial to the victims of a woman who allegedly plowed her car into crowds of people walking down the Las Vegas Strip Sunday night. The…
Nation & World
Bowe Bergdahl arraigned at North Carolina Army base
U.S. Army Sgt. Robert Bergdahl leaves the courthouse Tuesday after his arraignment hearing at Fort Bragg, N.C.Andrew Craft/The Fayetteville Observer Bergdahl, who was held by the Taliban for five years…
Nation & World
Records show Hitler enjoyed special treatment in prison
Adolf Hitler, leader of the National Socialists, emerges from the party’s Munich headquarters. Historical documents show Hitler enjoyed special treatment, including plentiful supplies of beer, during his time in Landsberg…
Nation & World
Colombians looking for who to blame in Miss Universe mix-up
From President Juan Manuel Santos to Miss Colombia’s relatives in the Caribbean port city of Barranquilla, millions of Colombians who tuned in for Sunday’s pageant screamed joyously when it was…
Nation & World
Obama says Trump exploiting U.S. blue-collar workers’ fear
In a year-end interview with NPR News, Obama said demographic changes combined with the “economic stresses” people have been feeling because of the financial crisis, technology and globalization have made…
Nation & World
Donald Trump breathing life into white supremacy
In an era of gay marriage and a black president, more than a half-century after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law, separatists can’t exactly swan dive into conversations…
Nation & World
Nation & World Briefs
WASHINGTON – The year-end spending bill that passed Congress on Friday contains $750 million to help El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras fight poverty and gang violence, improve security and reform…
Nation & World
Police: Las Vegas crash driver was out of money
Suspect Lakeisha N. Holloway, 24, resided in Oregon and had been in Las Vegas for about a week in her 1996 Oldsmobile sedan, parking it at garages throughout the city,…
Nation & World
Six U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan
U.S. Army soldiers stand with Afghan policemen before a joint patrol of Qalanderkhail, outside of Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan. An Afghan official says that a suicide bomber killed foreign…
Nation & World
Lindsey Graham ends presidential bid
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who announced Monday he was ending his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, thanked his supporters and said he was proud of his campaign, which garnered…
Nation & World
Driver plows into crowds in Las Vegas
The woman in her 20s, who has not been identified, struck pedestrians as she drove onto the walkway in front of the Paris and Planet Hollywood casino-hotels on Sunday evening,…
Nation & World
Nation & World Briefs
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. – Rescuers pulled five bodies from the wreckage of a small plane that crashed into an orchard in central California after vanishing from radar, local and federal authorities…
Nation & World
Donald Trump defends Vladimir Putin against rumors of assassinations
‘Nobody has proven that he’s killed anyone’
Nation & World
GOP looks at alternatives to repeal Affordable Care Act
In budget deal, health law foes took a different path
Nation & World
Dead ends fuel militant recruits in Brussels
But the next day, Abdeslam drove to Paris, and on Nov. 13 he blew himself up outside a cafe on Boulevard Voltaire, part of the wave of attacks claimed by…
Nation & World
Fake bomb on flight forces emergency landing in Kenya
The homemade apparatus was discovered around midnight hidden in a lavatory cabinet behind a mirror where it was apparently placed during the approximately 11-hour flight to Paris from the island…
Nation & World
Cats, dogs partying like animals
Aimee Beltran uses her 6-year-old Chihuahua to model her ugly sweater ideas on her blog.Aimee Beltran via Associated Press Zigzilla “Ziggy” and Chopper “Lambchop” got sweaters from PetSmart this year…
Nation & World
Sanders apologizes to Clinton, supporters for data breach
Three Democratic contenders for president face off
Nation & World
Not feeling like Christmas? Find peace, serenity in the lights
More than ever, I’ve found myself consumed by the season’s obligations, unleavened by its joys. It was in that mood that we happened to drive past a Tudor-style home in…