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Health care issue, longtime uniter of Democrats, now divides

WASHINGTON – Health care for all. It’s a goal that tugs at the heartstrings of Democrats, but pursuing it usually invites political peril. Now Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton a...

DATE: Feb 21, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama sends Congress $1.9B request to combat Zika virus

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama Monday sent lawmakers an official $1.9 billion request to combat the spread of the Zika virus in Latin America and the U.S. He is also request...

DATE: Feb 21, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Man recounts harrowing Uber ride with Kalamazoo suspect

KALAMAZOO, Mich. – An Uber passenger said he called police to report an erratic driver more than an hour before the driver allegedly began a series of three random shootings that killed six ...

DATE: Feb 21, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Islamic State bombings rock Syria as world powers seek truce

BEIRUT – Bombings claimed by the Islamic State group in the Syrian cities of Damascus and Homs killed nearly 130 people on Sunday, highlighting the threat posed by the extremists as the coun...

DATE: Feb 21, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

What to do if U.S. begins capturing more suspected terrorists?

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama has refused to send any suspected terrorists captured overseas to the detention center at Guantanamo Bay. But if the U.S. starts seizing more militants in...

DATE: Feb 21, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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London’s Boris Johnson backs Britain leaving EU LONDON – A new battle for Britain erupted Sunday, with London Mayor Boris Johnson saying he would join the campaign to encourage Br...

DATE: Feb 21, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Free to good home: Horses who have served country

He received good marks in his early days in the military: “quite impressive,” his supervisor once wrote. But after he kicked a few soldiers, he swiftly found himself unwelcome in the Army. ...

DATE: Feb 21, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Rubio, Cruz jostle to claim ‘alternative-to-Trump’ vote

FRANKLIN, Tenn. – Republicans Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz battled to emerge as the true anti-Trump on Sunday as the billionaire businessman took an ever-so-brief break from his trademark bragga...

DATE: Feb 21, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Gunman kills 6 at apartment complex, dealership, restaurant

KALAMAZOO, Mich. – A gunman who seemed to choose his victims at random opened fire outside an apartment complex, a car dealership and a restaurant in Michigan, killing at least six people du...

DATE: Feb 21, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Massachusetts plans rattlesnake colony on uninhabited island

BOSTON – A plan by the state to establish a colony of venomous timber rattlesnakes on an off-limits island in Massachusetts’ largest body of water has some rattled by visions of dangerous se...

DATE: Feb 20, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Serbia: 2 hostages killed in US airstrikes in Libya

BELGRADE, Serbia – Two Serbian embassy staffers held hostage since November died in Friday’s U.S. airstrikes on an Islamic State camp in western Libya that killed dozens, Serbian officials s...

DATE: Feb 20, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Ferocious cyclone strikes Pacific island nation of Fiji

WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Residents of Fiji were beginning to clean up and assess the damage Sunday after a ferocious cyclone tore through the Pacific island chain overnight. Ther...

DATE: Feb 20, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World