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Houston flood control efforts fall behind urban sprawl

HOUSTON – Flood control has long been a challenging issue in Houston, dating back to the city’s infancy on the banks of the Buffalo Bayou when its first flood was recorded more than 170 year...

DATE: Apr 19, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

After 100 years, a lost flower is found

Maryland botanist rediscoversrare treasure

DATE: Apr 19, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Stolen ‘inverted Jenny’ stamp resurfaces

NEW YORK – One of the longest mysteries in the stamp-collecting world is getting a new chapter. Six decades after four of the U.S. Postal Service’s most celebrated misprints were...

DATE: Apr 19, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Fidel Castro gives rare speech saying he will soon die

HAVANA – Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro delivered a valedictory speech on Tuesday to the Communist Party he put in power a half-century ago, telling party members he would soon die ...

DATE: Apr 19, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Earth’s hot streak continues for a record 11 months

WASHINGTON – Earth’s record monthly heat streak has hit 11 months in a row – a record in itself. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Tuesday that March’s...

DATE: Apr 19, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation & World Briefs

U.S. approves more troops to fight Islamic State WASHINGTON – The United States will send approximately 200 additional troops to Iraq and allow U.S. advisers to move closer to the front line...

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

Trump, Clinton bet on New York to end campaign turbulence

For the two front-runners in the Republican and Democratic presidential nomination races, there’s no place like home. Polls show Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Tru...

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

Dramatic rescue amid rubble gives Ecuador hope for survivors

MANTA, Ecuador – Rescuers in Ecuador pulled three people out alive after being trapped for more than 32 hours in the rubble of a shopping center that was flattened by this weekend’s powerful...

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

AP wins Pulitzer for stories on enslaved fishermen in Asia

NEW YORK – The Associated Press won the Pulitzer Prize for public service Monday for documenting the use of slave labor in Southeast Asia to supply seafood to American tables – an investigat...

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

Poll: Just 6 percent of people say they trust the media

WASHINGTON – Trust in the news media is being eroded by perceptions of inaccuracy and bias, fueled in part by Americans’ skepticism about what they read on social media. Just 6 pe...

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

Justices hear dispute over Obama immigration actions

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court is taking up an important dispute over immigration that could affect millions of people who are living in the country illegally. The Obama administr...

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

U.S. to join quake relief effort in Japan; 41 dead, 11 missing

MINAMIASO, Japan – Eleven people remained missing Sunday in southern Japan from two powerful earthquakes that killed at least 41 people, as the U.S. military announced it was preparing to jo...

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

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