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Judge: Hobby Lobby won’t have to pay fines

OKLAHOMA CITY – Hobby Lobby and a sister company will not be subject to $1.3 million in daily fines beginning Monday for failing to provide access to certain forms of birth control through i...

Record heat wave to hit West

LAS VEGAS – A high pressure system parking over the West is expected to bring temperatures this weekend and into next week that are extreme even for a region used to baking during the summer...

Hobby Lobby can seek health-care exemption

DENVER – A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Hobby Lobby stores have a good case that the federal health-care law violates their religious beliefs in ordering them to provide birth c...

Nation Briefs

30-count indictment for Boston suspect BOSTON – Boston Marathon suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev downloaded bomb-making instructions from an al-Qaida magazine, gathered online material o...

World Briefs

UN condemns Congo rapes of girls, toddler UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. is raising the alarm about the recent rape of nine young girls in conflict-ridden eastern Congo, the youngest 1...

Iraq welcomes U.S. military aid

BAGHDAD – Iraq is open to greater American military cooperation as U.S. commanders explore ways to boost security assistance to the country, a top Iraqi official said Thursday as a fresh wav...

Senate passes immigration bill

WASHINGTON – The Senate has passed historic immigration legislation offering the hope of American citizenship to millions, while promising a military-style surge to secure the border. ...

Court: Hobby Lobby can challenge health care law

DENVER – In a health care decision giving hope to opponents of the federal birth-control coverage mandate, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Hobby Lobby stores won’t have to start ...

Nation Briefs

Texas carries out 500th execution since 1982 HUNTSVILLE, Texas – Texas marked a solemn moment in criminal justice Wednesday evening, executing its 500th inmate since it resumed ca...

Texas gov. calls special session on abortion

AUSTIN, Texas – Gov. Rick Perry on Wednesday called a second special session of the Texas Legislature to pass widespread abortion restrictions across the nation’s second-largest state, after...

Immigration bill cruising to Senate passage

WASHINGTON – Far-reaching immigration legislation cruised toward passage in the Senate as House Republicans pushed ahead Wednesday on a different approach that cracks down on millions living...

World Briefs

Popular Honduran TV journalist kidnapped TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – Police investigators say they’re searching for a popular television journalist in the northern Honduran city of Sa...