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Trump urges GOP to rally behind him

Cruz hoping to be spoiler in upcoming votes

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

Nation & World Briefs

Mourning period begins for Reagan SIMI VALLEY, Calif. – Three days of formal mourning for former first lady Nancy Reagan began Wednesday as her casket was taken in a police-escort...

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

U.S. special forces kill 10 Islamic extremists in Somalia

MOGADISHU, Somalia – Hoping to capture a high-profile target, U.S. special forces hopped off helicopters a couple of miles from an al-Shabab-controlled town, slipped through the dark and the...

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

Senate committee votes to approve new education secretary

WASHINGTON – A Senate committee has approved the nomination of John B. King Jr. to be the nation’s new education secretary. The vote by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pe...

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

Pedestrian fatalities jump in ’15, data show

WASHINGTON – Pedestrian deaths surged by an estimated 10 percent last year as the economy improved, the price of gasoline plunged and motorists put more miles behind the wheel than ever befo...

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

American killed in Israel

JERUSALEM – Palestinian attackers unleashed a series of shooting and stabbing assaults on Israelis on Tuesday, including a stabbing spree in the ancient Mediterranean port city of Jaffa that...

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

Sanders, Trump win Michigan primaries

Businessman wins Michigan, Mississippi votes

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

FBI agents investigated over shots fired during standoff

PORTLAND, Ore. – FBI agents involved in the traffic stop that led to the killing of one of the armed occupiers of a national wildlife refuge are under investigation for not disclosing they f...

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

Womb transplant recipient grateful for chance at pregnancy

CLEVELAND – The recipient of the nation’s first uterus transplant said Monday that she prayed for years to be able to bear a child, and is grateful to the deceased donor’s family and surgeon...

DATE: Mar 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

In drills, U.S., South Korea practice striking North’s nuclear plants

TOKYO – The United States and South Korea started huge military exercises Monday, kicking off drills that will include rehearsing surgical strikes on North Korea’s main nuclear and missile f...

DATE: Mar 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Who’s an outsider? GOP establishment fears loss of standing

WASHINGTON – Republican leaders in Washington have spent years casting tea party allies and hardliners in Congress as merely a restive minority, a fringe element to be tolerated. ...

DATE: Mar 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Boston police inflate progress on searches, frisks

BOSTON – Boston police say they’re narrowing the gap between how often black residents are subjected to stops, searches and frisks as compared with whites and other ethnic groups. But an Ass...

DATE: Mar 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World