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Social Security to rise slightly

Partial government shutdown delays the release of exact size

Sloppy Silicon Valley techies find their style

SAN JOSE, Calif. – The Silicon Valley has had a men’s fashion problem dating back to its founders. From their inception, tech companies went out of their way to be different – an...

Long, strange trip ending for VW’s hippie van

SÃO PAULO – It carried hippies through the 1960s, hauled surfers in search of killer waves during endless summers and serves as a workhorse across the developing world, but the long, strange...

Deaths shed light on migrants’ passage

VALLETTA, Malta – Three deadly Mediterranean shipwrecks that claimed the lives of hundreds of would-be asylum-seekers fleeing war and repression sharpened calls Saturday for humanitarian cor...

Congress lumbers as default looms

‘Definitely a chance’ U.S. will go past deadline

Nation Briefs

New York Nancy Pelosi, Betty Ford join Women’s Hall of Fame SENECA FALLS, N.Y. – House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, the late former first lady Betty Ford and Title I...

Kerry: Partial Afghan security deal reached

KABUL, Afghanistan – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday said a partial agreement was reached with Afghanistan on a security accord, but the potentially deal-breaking issue of jur...

Congressional pay hits nerve

Shutdown leaves them stuck in middle

Q&A: What if borrowing limit is breached?

WASHINGTON – Negotiations in Congress to raise the nation’s borrowing limit are up against a deadline of Thursday. If the limit isn’t raised by then, the government will no longer have autho...

World Briefs

Car bomb at Iraq market kills 17 BAGHDAD – A car bombing at a market in Iraq killed 17 people on Saturday, wounding dozens of others in the latest outbreak of violence to hit the ...

France keeps fracking ban

PARIS – France’s constitutional council upheld a ban on the energy extraction process known as fracking on Friday, two days after the European Parliament voted to require full environmental ...

Rights group accuses Syrian rebels of war crimes

BEIRUT – Syrian villagers described watching rebels advance on their homes, as mortars thudded around them. By the end of the August attack, 190 civilians had been killed, including children...