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Washington’s journal to be sold at auction

Document offers insights on war with France

DATE: Apr 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Facebook says your posts aren’t personal enough

Social network trying to get users to post more about their lives

DATE: Apr 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Bernie Sanders wins Wyoming

COLORADO SPRINGS – Bernie Sanders picked up another win in Wyoming – but it did nothing to help him gain ground in the delegate chase. Sanders, I-Vt., got word of his Wyoming win ...

DATE: Apr 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Candidates for next UN chief to face nations for first time

UNITED NATIONS – For the first time in the 70-year history of the United Nations, all the member states will get a chance to question the candidates for Secretary-General, in a move to make ...

DATE: Apr 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Polish workers in UK worry about possibility of Brexit

WARSAW, Poland – Hundreds of thousands of people whose personal fates hinge on whether Britain leaves the European Union or stays don’t even have a say in the matter: Polish immigrants, a co...

DATE: Apr 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World Briefs

Three men rescued from remote Pacific Island HONOLULU – Three men had left just hours earlier when a large wave capsized their 19-foot skiff on Monday night. They swam through two miles of d...

DATE: Apr 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Shooter at Air Force base was training in Special Operations

Tech. Sgt. Steven Bellino was facing a disciplinary hearing

DATE: Apr 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Improved economic outlook boosts Obama approval rating

Half of those polled happy with president’s job performance

DATE: Apr 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Belgians find elusive ‘man in the hat’ from airport video

BRUSSELS – After nearly three weeks of frantic searching, Belgian authorities announced Saturday they had finally arrested and identified the elusive “man in the hat” spotted alongside two s...

DATE: Apr 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

Hatchet-wielding woman shot by police LAKE HALLIE, Wis. – A police officer fatally shot a developmentally disabled woman inside a western Wisconsin Wal-Mart after she refused to drop a hatch...

DATE: Apr 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

WW II nurses still friends

NEW YORK – They were young Army nurses in World War II, sharing a room and experiences that forged an extraordinary bond. A monsoon destroyed part of their hospital on a South Pa...

DATE: Apr 8, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Alaska internment camp studied

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – Alice Tanaka Hikido clearly remembers the bewilderment and sense of violation she felt 74 years ago when FBI agents rifled through her family’s June...

DATE: Apr 8, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World