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Doping scandal roils another sport: Dogsledding

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Cycling. Baseball. Track. Horse racing. Now dogsledding has become the latest professional sport to be engulfed in a doping scandal, this one involving the huskies that d...

DATE: Oct 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump readies opioid plan amid worries it won’t be enough

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s long-awaited declaration that the opioid epidemic is a national emergency finally arrives this week, but some advocates are worried that it won’t be bac...

DATE: Oct 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Flake will retire, citing direction of GOP under Trump

‘I rise to say enough’ senator tells colleagues

DATE: Oct 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

House GOP launches probes into Obama-era uranium deal, Clinton email inquiry

WASHINGTON – Leading House Republicans announced on Tuesday two new probes, one into how the Obama administration’s Justice Department handled a deal that gave Russia control over 20 percent...

DATE: Oct 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Masked man ‘forcefully’ grabs woman at Halloween-themed maze

LITTLETON – A woman visiting a Halloween-themed Colorado corn maze says a man in all black, wearing a white mask, jumped out from the corn stalks and demanded she dance with him, touch him, ...

DATE: Oct 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Deputies: N.M. man drove golf cart while drunk, flipped it over

LAS CRUCES, N.M. – A New Mexico man is facing charges after authorities say he drove a golf cart while drunk and crashed it into a fence. The Dona Ana County Sheriff’s Office said...

DATE: Oct 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

GAO: Climate change already costing U.S. billions in losses

WASHINGTON – A non-partisan federal watchdog says climate change is already costing U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars each year, with those costs expected to rise as devastating storms, flo...

DATE: Oct 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. general: Many questions remain about Niger attack

WASHINGTON – The U.S. special forces unit ambushed by Islamic militants in Niger didn’t call for help until an hour into their first contact with the enemy, the top U.S. general says, conced...

DATE: Oct 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Down and out in D.C.: What can be done about diplomatic dumps?

WASHINGTON – The large building at the corner of 22nd and R streets in downtown Washington, D.C., sticks out like a wart in the otherwise upscale neighborhood. Plywood covers the windows, sl...

DATE: Oct 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Judge: Trump’s health care cuts don’t pose immediate threat

SAN FRANCISCO — California and other states have protected consumers from the Trump administration’s decision to cut off “Obamacare” health care subsidies, a federal judge said Monday, so pe...

DATE: Oct 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Choices: Amazon says it got 238 entries for 2nd headquarters

NEW YORK – Amazon will be sorting through 238 proposals from cities and regions in the United States, Canada and Mexico that are hoping to land the company’s second headquarters and the inve...

DATE: Oct 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Britain to give Canada the shipwrecks of explorer Franklin

LONDON – Britain announced Monday it will give Canada the shipwrecks of British explorer John Franklin, who perished with his crew while trying to chart the Northwest Passage through the Arc...

DATE: Oct 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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