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GOP weighing short-term debt-limit hike

WASHINGTON – House Republican leaders are considering a short-term increase in the U.S. debt limit as a possible way to break out of the gridlock that threatens the nation with an unpreceden...

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Jewish settlers attack village in West Bank JALOUD, West Bank – Masked Jewish settlers burst into a school Wednesday, vandalizing cars and torching olive trees during a rampage th...

Quebec targeting religious symbols

MONTREAL – Viewed from the outside, Quebec often seems like a place where all life orbits around the political destiny of a French-speaking province in an English-speaking country. The lates...

3 in U.S. win chemistry Nobel for computer models

NEW YORK – Three U.S.-based scientists won a Nobel Prize Wednesday for developing a powerful new way to do chemistry on a computer. They pioneered highly sophisticated computer si...

Officials: Syria deadline ‘not unrealistic’

THE HAGUE, Netherlands – International inspection teams overseeing the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons will have to negotiate cease-fires between government and rebel forces to gain ...

Insurance shopping? Put drug coverage at top of list

Premiums and deductibles tend to get the most attention when it comes to health insurance. Drug coverage deserves far more than it gets. And that’s true whether you’re shopping for insurance...

Justices hear campaign finance law case

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court appeared ready Tuesday to free big individual donors to give more money to political candidates in the court’s first major campaign-finance case since the just...

Disputes cloud Asia-Pacific summit focus on trade

BALI, Indonesia – Asia-Pacific leaders vowed Tuesday to cooperate on stabilizing a global economic recovery threatened by resource scarcity and bottlenecks to growth. Leaders of ...

SEALS met too much gunfire at Somalia base

Navy SEALs abandoned their mission to capture an Islamist terrorist suspected of planning the mall attack in Kenya after encountering strong resistance at the man’s beach-side stronghold in ...

Terror suspect being detained aboard warship

WASHINGTON – Aboard a Navy warship, U.S. investigators are likely playing good cop/bad cop, shouting and banging their hands on a table to get suspected al-Qaida operative Abu Anas al-Libi t...

Questionable design blamed for health website woes

Associated Press WASHINGTON – A decision to require that consumers create online accounts before they can browse available health plans under President Barack Obama’s overhaul app...

3 seek to overturn convictions

ALBANY, N.Y. – Three people convicted of murder in deadly crashes urged New York’s highest court Tuesday to throw out their convictions, arguing they were too intoxicated to know the threat...