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Obama says bye to European leaders

Urges them to work with Trump

DATE: Nov 18, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Clapper says U.S. confronted Russia about hacking

WASHINGTON – Director of National Intelligence James Clapper says Russia curtailed its election-related cyber activity after the Obama administration accused Moscow of trying to interfere wi...

DATE: Nov 17, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Yellen: The ‘case for an increase’ in rates has strengthened

WASHINGTON – Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen sketched a picture Thursday of an improving U.S. economy and said “the case for an increase” in interest rates has strengthened. The Fed is wi...

DATE: Nov 17, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

San Francisco teachers union offers Trump lesson plan

SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco’s public schools have been offered a classroom lesson plan that calls President-elect Donald Trump a racist, sexist man who became president “by pandering to a ...

DATE: Nov 16, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

House, Senate select leaders for new Congress

WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans re-elected Mitch McConnell on Wednesday to be majority leader next year while Democrats picked Chuck Schumer to lead them, setting the chief actors as the cha...

DATE: Nov 16, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Rome’s Circus Maximus offers new attractions

ROME – Six years of excavations have given Rome a new tourist attraction in Circus Maximus. The archaeological ruin has for centuries been a vast muddy field, lately used largely ...

DATE: Nov 16, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump denies problems with transition

Team meets with several Cabinet candidates

DATE: Nov 16, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama warns leaders to heed voters’ fears

ATHENS, Greece – Drawing a broad lesson from the election of Donald Trump, President Barack Obama said Tuesday that world leaders need to pay attention to people’s very real fears of economi...

DATE: Nov 15, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Justice trades judicial robes for opera costume

WASHINGTON – The curtain rose on Act 2 of “The Daughter of the Regiment,” revealing the figure of a tiny woman barely visible in a large dome chair with her back to the audience. Suddenly, s...

DATE: Nov 15, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World