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Record retail crowds, but spending declined NEW YORK – Thanksgiving Day openings and reduced prices failed to get Americans to crack open their billfolds during the biggest shoppi...

Bronx train goes off rails; 4 die

60-plus hurt; cause to be investigated

Should you worry or is U.S. military at the ready?

WASHINGTON – Warnings from defense officials and some experts are mounting and becoming more dire: The nation’s military is being hobbled by budget cuts. “You’d better hope we nev...

Officials says worst tech bugs are over for health-care website

WASHINGTON – The worst of the online glitches, crashes and delays may be over for the problem-plagued government health-care website, the Department of Health and Human Services said Sunday....

Subconscious relationship doubts? Trust your gut instincts

Those night-before-the-wedding jitters might have been more logical than you thought. A study published this week in the journal Science found that the gut reactions people had ab...

U.S.: American fighters in Syria a security risk

RALEIGH, N.C. – Federal officials say Americans are joining the bloody civil war in Syria, raising the chances they could become radicalized by al-Qaida-linked militant groups and return to ...

Black Friday bitten by Turkey Day

Big shopping day profits down

In God we trust, maybe, but not each other

Americans more cautious of fellow citizens

Nation Briefs

Alaska Villagers rush to aid rural plane crash survivors ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Residents of a rural Alaska village reached survivors of a commuter plane crash two hours a...

Colleges embracing personalized pronouns

They’re more descriptive of genders

Scottish holiday marred by police chopper crash

Helicoper fell on bar during ska concert; 8 people die

North Korea says American apologizes for ‘hostile acts’

Korean War veteran toured country before being detained