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Medicaid expansion spurs cost concerns

Estimates threaten health care program

DATE: Aug 12, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Putin fires chief of staff

Russian putting young allies into top positions

DATE: Aug 12, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

‘Making a Murderer’ conviction tossed out MADISON, Wis. – A federal judge in Wisconsin on Friday overturned the conviction of a man found guilty of helping his uncle kill a woman in a case p...

DATE: Aug 12, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World Briefs

Pakistan says it will expel American ISLAMABAD – An American who entered Pakistan last week after being expelled from the country five years earlier will be deported again after being interr...

DATE: Aug 12, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Bombings in Thailand target tourist cities, killing four people

HUA HIN, Thailand – Attackers using firebombs and homemade explosives struck a series of popular resort cities and beach towns across Thailand in some of the worst violence to hit the countr...

DATE: Aug 12, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. retail sales flat in July after 3 months of solid gains

WASHINGTON – U.S. retail sales were unchanged in July from the previous month, a sign that consumers were cautious after three months of solid gains. Americans spent less at clot...

DATE: Aug 12, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump entertains notion he could lose

Candidate asks ministers for support

DATE: Aug 11, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

What Congress is saying about the DEA’s refusal to change course on pot

DEA rejects petition to loosen rules on medical marijuana

DATE: Aug 11, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump accuses Obama of being the ‘founder of ISIS’

SUNRISE, Fla. – Donald Trump is now accusing President Barack Obama of founding the Islamic State group that is wreaking havoc from the Middle East to European cities. “In many re...

DATE: Aug 11, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Report shines light on Baltimore Police

Blacks were routinely targeted for arrest

DATE: Aug 10, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation & World Briefs

California wildfire blamed on hot tub SAN FRANCISCO – A hot tub’s faulty wiring ignited one of California’s most destructive wildfires, a blaze that killed four people, sent four firefighter...

DATE: Aug 10, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Source: Boy was decapitated on waterslide at Kansas park

KANSAS CITY, Kan. – A 10-year-old boy was decapitated as he rode a 168-foot tall waterslide at a water park in Kansas, a person familiar with the investigation said Wednesday. The...

DATE: Aug 10, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World