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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

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Boston bombing survivor killed in Dubai car crash BOSTON – A college student who survived serious injuries in the Boston Marathon bombing was killed in a car accident in Dubai ove...

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

Turkey demands more money to help EU tackle migrant crisis

BRUSSELS – European Union leaders tussled with Turkey over how to control the flow of asylum-seekers from the Middle East in a diplomatic tug-of-war Monday that left the fate of thousands of...

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

Bloomberg decides against third-party bid for White House

NEW YORK – Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday that he will not run for president, citing a concern that his independent bid would hand the White House to Donald Trump o...

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

Navy SEALs tell congressman there is a combat rifle shortage

WASHINGTON – The tip of the spear may be losing its edge. Navy SEAL teams don’t have enough combat rifles to go around, even as these highly trained forces are relied on more than...

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

Tunisia: At least 45 dead in clashes near Libyan border

TUNIS, Tunisia – One of the deadliest clashes seen so far between Tunisian forces and extremist attackers left at least 45 people dead Monday near Tunisia’s border with Libya, the government...

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

Suicide attack kills at least 47 south of Iraqi capital

HILLAH, Iraq – A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden fuel truck into a security checkpoint south of Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 47 people and wounding dozens, officials said. ...

DATE: Mar 6, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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Inventor of modern email, Ray Tomlinson, dies Ray Tomlinson, the inventor of modern email, has died. Raytheon Co., his employer, on Sunday confirmed his death; the details were ...

DATE: Mar 6, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

EU looks to refugee-laden Turkey to ease its migrant burden

BRUSSELS – European Union leaders will be looking to boost aid to Greece as the Balkan migrant route is effectively sealed, using Monday’s summit as an attempt to restore unity among the 28 ...

DATE: Mar 6, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Some in GOP start seeing Cruz as best alternative to Trump

WASHINGTON – Republican leaders on Sunday grappled with the prospect that the best hope for stopping Donald Trump’s march to the nomination may be Ted Cruz – the only candidate who causes as...

DATE: Mar 6, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Psychologists reporting patients’ ‘Trump anxiety’

To the catalogue of anxieties her patients explore during therapy – marriage, children and careers – psychologist Alison Howard is now listening to a new source of stress: the political rise...

DATE: Mar 6, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World