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Cat poo fuels feral feline debate

HONOLULU – Two wildlife issues have collided in Hawaii, pitting one group of animal defenders against another in an impassioned debate. The point of contention? Deadly cat poop and the feral...

$4 a month? Social Security recipients to get tiny increase

WASHINGTON — Millions of Social Security recipients and federal retirees will get a 0.3 percent increase in monthly benefits next year, the fifth year in a row that older Americans will have...

States move quietly on election security

Some fear violence at local polling sites

Terror fears run deep

Majority in eight countries want governments to do more

Obama slaps Trump’s ‘whining’

GOP candidate renews his claim that the election is ‘corrupt’

World Briefs

Nigeria seeks release of kidnapped girls ABUJA, Nigeria – Nigeria’s government is negotiating the release of another 83 of the Chibok schoolgirls taken in a mass abduction 2½ years ago, but ...

Nation Briefs

Police deaths fell in 2015, FBI says WASHINGTON – The number of law enforcement officers killed as a result of criminal acts decreased in 2015 from the year before, dropping from 51 to 41, t...

Nation & World Briefs

Journalist donors favor Clinton over Trump People who identify as journalists on federal campaign finance reports overwhelmingly donated to the Clinton campaign over the Trump campaign. ...

California police chief: Officers spared when gunman’s weapon jams

VALLEJO, Calif. — A man wearing body armor pointed an assault rifle at two police officers in a California Starbucks, only to have the weapon malfunction before he fled and was shot by the o...

Russia sets brief cease-fire for Aleppo

Move comes only after airstrikes kill 36 people

FBI, State talk about Clinton emails

Team Trump tweets: ‘CORRUPTION CONFIRMED’’

Trump says his own party being ‘naive’ about voter fraud

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump lashed out on Monday at Republicans who have tried to tone down his rhetoric about election fraud, calling his own party’s leaders “so naive” and claiming without e...