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12 killed in Washington Navy Yard shooting

WASHINGTON – As many as two gunmen opened fire Monday morning inside the Washington Navy Yard, killing at least 12 people in an attack on office workers at the heavily secured military insta...

Lawrence Summers withdraws name from Fed consideration

Exit may open door for chief rival Janet Yellen

Nation/World Briefs

Obama: Budget squeeze may widen income gap WASHINGTON – On the fifth anniversary of the Lehman Brothers collapse, President Barack Obama says the Republican focus on budget tighte...

Syrian official: Chemical weapons deal a ā€˜victory’

BEIRUT – A high-ranking Syrian official called the U.S.-Russian agreement on securing Syria’s chemical weapons a ā€œvictoryā€ for President Bashar Assad’s regime, but the U.S. warned Sunday ā€œth...

Floods transform ā€˜Gore-Tex Vortex’

Boulder, Front Range now deal with mud ā€˜everywhere’

Great Lakes projects inspire bipartisanship

Program to benefit inland seas

24 are dead as tropical weather batters Mexico

ACAPULCO, Mexico – Tropical Storm Manuel swept onto Mexico’s Pacific coast Sunday while Hurricane Ingrid swirled offshore on the other side of the country, as heavy rains and landslides caus...

Conn. slave who died in 1798 called ā€˜child of God’

WATERBURY, Conn. – A slave who died more than 200 years ago in Connecticut but was never buried was given an extraordinary funeral Thursday that included lying in state at the Capitol and c...

Sens. McCain, Graham blast chemical weapons deal

WASHINGTON – Two Republican senators who are among President Barack Obama’s sharpest foreign policy critics on Saturday blasted a Syrian chemical weapons agreement as ā€œan act of provocative ...

World Briefs

Syrian rebel infighting kills 5 near Iraq border BEIRUT – Al-Qaida-affiliated rebels battled more moderate Syrian opposition fighters in a town along the Iraq border on Saturday, ...

Republican leaders worry about tea party fallout

FLETCHER, N.C. – Tea party activists, once unquestioned as a benefit to the Republican Party for supplying it with votes and energy, are now criticizing GOP leaders at seemingly every turn. ...

Obama linking Lehman anniversary, success

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is marking the fifth anniversary of the Lehman Brothers collapse by trying to lay claim to an economic turnaround and warning Republicans against moves th...