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Chong seeks White House pardon for selling bongs

Actor needs 80K more online signatures for response

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

Glam rockers, goddesses: Marc Jacobs gets trippy

NEW YORK – Otherworldly goddesses? Looking-for-some-fun ’90s ravers? Your basic acid trip – but a happy one?! Marc Jacobs had it all at his New York Fashion Week show last week, i...

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

‘Animation spots’ to help boost tourism to Japan?

TOKYO – Eighty-eight places in Japan are going to be designated “animation spots” to encourage tourism – using train stations, school campuses, rural shrines and other fairly everyday places...

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

Artists riding trend toward the handcrafted

Lisa Jones founded her ceramics company, Pigeon Toe, eight years ago with an emphasis on petite pottery pieces like her three-legged “tripot” bowls and teensy stacking bowls. Her ...

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

‘Blue’ for jeans first made 6,200 years ago in Peru

Indigo dye may by older – and more American – than previously assumed. In a study published in Science Advances, researchers report scraps of indigo-dyed fabric found in Peru tha...

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

Maryland governor’s daughter to marry

For the first time in more than a decade, a wedding will take place at the governor’s mansion in Maryland. Massive white tents were assembled on the front lawn of Government House...

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

Analysis: Trump again suggests violence against Clinton

Comments more direct than previous ones

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

Nevada’s recreational pot measure faces big-name foes

LAS VEGAS – A formal campaign against legalizing recreational marijuana in Nevada launched Friday with the support of heavy-hitters including Gov. Brian Sandoval and the organization that re...

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

EU looks at defense issue

Bloc seeks to expand joint military efforts

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

Heavy floods hit North Korea

Thousands left homeless as winter nears

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

Cyberbully case could lead to charges

MILAN – Italian prosecutors in Naples have opened a criminal investigation of the suicide of a 31-year-old woman who had fought unsuccessfully to have a video showing her having sex expunged...

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

Minor party candidates fail to meet debate requirement

DENVER – The commission that oversees presidential debates has invited only Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump to the first presidential debate. It excluded two third-party candidates who had ...

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