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Khodorkovsky will work to free political inmates

BERLIN – Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the Russian oligarch who crossed President Vladimir Putin and ended up in jail for a decade, says he plans to devote his life to securing the freedom of the co...

Winter’s start brings snow, ice, warm air

CONCORD, N.H. – The first full day of winter brought a wild mix of weather across the East on Sunday: ice and high wind in the Great Lakes and New England areas, flooding in the South, snow ...

Beer tax issue coming to a head

Big makers want in on proposed reduction

Sticker shock ahead for some buying new health plans

CHICAGO – As a key enrollment deadline hits Monday, many people without health insurance have been sizing up policies on the new government health-care marketplace and making what seems like...

Faux, faux, faux! Fakes are hot

Leather, fur go synthetic this holiday season

Cat-mouse game might explain how felines got tame

NEW YORK – A cat-and-mouse game played out in a Chinese village some 5,300 years ago is helping scientists understand how wild felines transformed into the tame pets we know today. ...

Health law fallout tightens key Senate races

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – Thanks to the fiasco that followed the launch of President Barack Obama’s health-care law, Democrats are bracing for hard-fought Senate races in states they hoped to wi...

U.S. aircraft hit in S. Sudan; 4 hurt

Ospreys were being used to evacuate Americans

Nation Briefs

Hawaii Barack Obama, family start annual winter vacation HONOLULU – President Barack Obama has arrived in Hawaii to kick off his annual winter vacation. The ...

Obama keeps tabs on Africa situation

HONOLULU – President Barack Obama said Saturday that continued violence and militancy in South Sudan may cost the world’s newest country the support of the United States and others nations. ...

U.S. travelers brace for foul, wet weather

CHICAGO – A storm with a 2,000-mile footprint threatened to frustrate Christmas travelers from Texas to Nova Scotia with a little of everything Mother Nature has to offer, from freezing rain...

Why cross America on foot? Each trek uniquely personal

For a week after Jadin’s death, Joe Bell lay in bed, beating himself up, wondering what he could – should – have done differently to help his son. In the face of relentless bull...