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Turkey marks 1 year since July 15 coup attempt quashed

ISTANBUL – Turkish authorities sacked nearly 7,400 civil servants for alleged links to terror groups as the country marked the first anniversary of quashing last summer’s coup attempt on Sat...

Why are American runners getting slower?

New report finds times down over 20-year period

Wild lioness photographed nursing a baby leopard

Luke Hunter, president and chief conservation officer of the global wild cat organization Panthera, received an email this week from one of his group’s partners in Tanzania. When he opened t...

Adoption ban snarled in new drama

NEW YORK – More than four years after it was imposed, Russia’s ban on adoptions by Americans is back in the news, rekindling frustration and sadness among some of those affected by it. ...

These animals can survive until the end of Earth

Tardigrades have a reputation as the toughest animals on the planet. Some of these microscopic invertebrates shrug off temperatures of minus 272 Celsius, one degree warmer than absolute zero...

Guns, churches and immigrants

What’s in the House spending bill?

Winners and losers complicate GOP’s path on health care bill

Poor and sick could suffer the most

Nevada adopts emergency rules to combat pot bottleneck

CARSON CITY, Nev. – Nevada moved Thursday to reduce supply problems at recreational marijuana stores that have faced overwhelming demand for newly legal pot and the possibility of their shel...

Trustees project biggest Social Security increase in years

Still seniors will see just a 2.2% raise

Inmate confesses to killing 4 men

Cosmo DiNardo tells authorities where to find bodies

Two national monuments are no longer up for review, Interior says.

Washington, Idaho sites off the table

GOP chairman plans to call on Donald Trump Jr. to testify

Grassley says he will subpoena president’s son if necessary