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Poll raises opioid concerns

One-third of users believe they are addicted

DATE: Dec 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Dems end threat over shutdown

WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats used a standoff over a year-end spending bill to appeal to the working-class white voters they lost to President-elect Donald Trump by threatening a short gover...

DATE: Dec 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Election hacking to be reviewed

President wants review completed before he leaves office

DATE: Dec 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

S. Korean leader stripped of power

Thousands rally after president impeached

DATE: Dec 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Businesses opposing deportation plans

Group says Trump proposal would damage U.S. economy

DATE: Dec 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Japan raises estimate on shutting nuke plant

TOKYO – The estimated cost of cleaning up Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant has doubled to nearly $190 billion, with decommissioning expenses expected to continue to increase, a govern...

DATE: Dec 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

GOP’s ‘Obamacare’ repeal path worries health care industry

WASHINGTON – One by one, key health care industry groups are telling the incoming Republican administration and Congress that it’s not a good idea to repeal the 2010 health care law without ...

DATE: Dec 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Fears about Trump presidency fading – sort of

Poll: Many still doubt his judgment

DATE: Dec 8, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Paris battling pollution

City takes steps to ease worst smog in decade

DATE: Dec 8, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Italian populists seek vote on euro

ROME – A leader of Italy’s populist 5-Star Movement is pressing for a vote on whether the country should keep the euro as its official currency, a pitch for support as the party eyes nationa...

DATE: Dec 8, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

First American to orbit Earth dies

Former senator never thought of himself as hero

DATE: Dec 8, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. life expectancy falls, as many kinds of death increase

NEW YORK – A decades-long trend of rising life expectancy in the U.S. could be ending: It declined last year and it is no better than it was four years ago. In most of the years s...

DATE: Dec 8, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World