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Rising temps raising cost of U.S. disasters

WASHINGTON – With steamy nights, sticky days and torrential downpours, last year went down as one of the warmest and wildest weather years on record in the United States. The Nati...

DATE: Jan 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama health law posts solid sign-ups despite GOP repeal vow

WASHINGTON – Congress may be moving to repeal “Obamacare,” but millions of people are still signing up. The administration said Tuesday that 11.5 million enrolled nationwide through Dec. 24,...

DATE: Jan 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Diplomats: Iran to get natural uranium batch

VIENNA – Iran is to receive a huge shipment of natural uranium from Russia to compensate it for exporting tons of reactor coolant, diplomats say, in a move approved by the outgoing U.S. admi...

DATE: Jan 9, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Airport shooting suspect gets public defender

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – The Iraq war veteran held in the fatal shooting of five people inside Fort Lauderdale’s airport was appointed a federal public defender on Monday after telling a judg...

DATE: Jan 9, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump hires son-in-law

Kushner to take senior White House role

DATE: Jan 9, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama presses Trump not to back away from clean energy

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama cast the adoption of clean energy in the U.S. as “irreversible,” putting pressure Monday on President-elect Donald Trump not to back away from a core stra...

DATE: Jan 9, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

For liberal groups, inauguration a time to organize against Trump

Liberal organizations plan to use inauguration weekend to mobilize activists for a four-year effort, capitalizing on the left-leaning crowds expected to descend on the nation’s capital for t...

DATE: Jan 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Google’s self-driving minivan test drives this week

DETROIT – Waymo, Google’s self-driving car division, will start testing its new fleet of minivans on public roads in California and Arizona later this month. The minivans, built i...

DATE: Jan 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Motorists pulled from flooded roads in California

SAN FRANCISCO – Stranded motorists were pulled from cars stuck on flooded Northern California roads as thunderstorms arrived Sunday as part of a massive winter storm that could be the bigges...

DATE: Jan 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

GOP vows quick action on new health care law

Senate will vote to repeal this week

DATE: Jan 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

App lets you check partisan dollars behind product labels

WASHINGTON – Bet the last time you were sipping Campbell’s soup or popping Pringles chips it never occurred to you that your eating habits could be political. But every product ha...

DATE: Jan 7, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World