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Doctors can’t explain declining risk of dementia

Dementia is on the decline, the risk of developing it dropping 20 percent per decade since the late 1970s, according to a striking new study published Wednesday in the New England Journal of...

North Korea cuts more ties with South

Says Seoul declared war by ending business park operations

Prison riot in Mexico leaves scores dead

Families seek information about inmates

World Briefs

NATO ships to help with refugee mission BRUSSELS – In a dramatic response to Europe’s gravest refugee crisis since World War II, NATO ordered three warships to sail immediately Th...

Nation Briefs

Holdout occupiers in Oregon surrender BURNS, Ore. – Surrounded by FBI agents in armored vehicles, the last four occupiers of a national nature preserve surrendered Thursday, and...

Dem candidates target minority voters

Clinton raises questions about price tag of Sanders’ proposals

Astronomers hail detection of Einstein’s gravitational waves

Gravity waves will change how scientists observe universe

Congress gives final OK to banning local Internet taxes

WASHINGTON – Congress voted Thursday to permanently bar state and local governments from taxing access to the Internet, as lawmakers leapt at an election-year chance to demonstrate their opp...

FBI arrests Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy in Portland

LAS VEGAS – The father of the jailed leader of a group that occupied an Oregon federal wildlife refuge was charged Thursday with conspiracy, assault on a federal officer, obstruction, weapon...

Government sues Ferguson after city tries to revise deal

U.S. attorney general says Justice Department had no choice

2 deputies, suspect dead in suburban shopping area gunfire

ABINGDON, Md. – A gunman fatally shot a sheriff’s deputy inside a crowded restaurant at lunchtime Wednesday and killed another deputy in a shootout nearby, authorities and witnesses said. ...

Michigan governor plans $360M for Flint, infrastructure

Snyder has apologized for role in water crisis