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Prime minister promises to protect Israel in talks

JERUSALEM – Israel’s prime minister on Monday said he is making a “real effort” to reach peace with the Palestinians, but vowed to maintain a hard-line stance in recently relaunched negotiat...

World Briefs

Man tries to charge through palace gate LONDON – A man with a knife is facing charges after he tried to dart through a gate at Buckingham Palace in London on Monday, police said. ...

Al-Qaida suspect in U.S. awaiting terrorism trial

WASHINGTON – After a weeklong interrogation aboard a U.S. warship, a Libyan al-Qaida suspect is now in New York awaiting trial on terrorism charges, U.S. officials said Monday. Ab...

Nation Briefs

Kansas bill to defend abortion law rising TOPEKA, Kan. – Kansas has paid more than $913,000 to two private law firms that are helping the state defend anti-abortion laws enacted ...

U.S. economists win Nobel for assets work

STOCKHOLM – Three American professors won the Nobel prize for economics Monday for shedding light on how stock, bond and house prices move over time – work that’s changed how people around t...

Reid, McConnell scrambling to reach deal

WASHINGTON – After weeks of stubborn gridlock, the Senate’s top two leaders raced Monday to reach an agreement that could head off a Treasury default that threatens severe national economic ...

Giffords seeks end to violence at gun show

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – A smiling Gabrielle Giffords toured rows of tables loaded with rifles and handguns Sunday in her first visit to a gun show since surviving a 2011 shooting, and plead...

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2 in custody for Tulsa shooting; 5 injured TULSA, Okla. – Gunfire that left five people injured at a traditional Hmong New Year’s festival rattled a peaceful, tight-knit east Tuls...

Gunmen kidnap workers in Syria

BEIRUT – Gunmen abducted six Red Cross workers and a Syrian Red Crescent volunteer after stopping their convoy early Sunday in northwestern Syria, a spokesman said, in the latest high-profil...

Congress holds rare Sunday session

Reid expresses ‘optimism,’ but no deal struck on the horizon

Study ties chemical to risk of miscarriage

BOSTON – New research suggests that high levels of BPA, a chemical in many plastics and canned food linings, might raise the risk of miscarriage in women prone to that problem or having trou...

Storm leaves ranchers reeling

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – Western South Dakota ranchers are reeling from the loss of tens of thousands of cattle in last weekend’s blizzard, and many will dispose of carcasses in pits set to open ...