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Former drug executive draws lawmakers’ ire

Entrepreneur takes Fifth during hearing

Cologne steps up security for Carnival celebrations

COLOGNE, Germany – Cannon fire followed by a rain of confetti heralded the start Thursday of Cologne’s annual Carnival, when hundreds of thousands of revelers take to the streets and pubs of...

During Utah funeral, occupier of Oregon refuge hailed as hero

KANAB, Utah – Inside a packed Mormon church in this desert town Friday, a leader of the Oregon armed standoff who died in a confrontation with authorities was called a man of conviction and ...

1 dies after crane falls in NYC street

NEW YORK – A huge construction crane being lowered to safety in a snow squall plummeted onto a Lower Manhattan street Friday, killing a Wall Street worker in a parked car and leaving three p...

Police groups fight use-of-force proposals

Officers say recommendations pose threat to them, public

Zika or not, Carnival to go on

Many Brazilians say they won’t let virus threat put damper on ‘joy’

Nation & World Briefs

Study links quakes in California to drilling SAN FRANCISCO – A 2005 spate of quakes in California’s Central Valley almost certainly was triggered by oilfield injection underground...

Twitter targets accounts used by terrorists

WASHINGTON – Twitter is now using spam-fighting technology to seek out accounts that might be promoting terrorist activity and is examining other accounts related to those flagged for possib...

Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, 6th man on moon, dies in Florida

MIAMI – Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who became the sixth man on the moon when he and Alan Shepard helped NASA recover from Apollo 13’s “successful failure” and later devoted his life...

Funeral to draw large crowd in support of Oregon occupier

The funeral for the Arizona rancher killed by law enforcement during the armed occupation of an Oregon wildlife refuge was expected to draw supporters Friday from around the West to a small ...

U.S. added just 151k jobs in January; unemployment at 4.9 percent

WASHINGTON – The U.S. economy added 151,000 jobs in January, a slowdown from recent months but still a sign of a solid job market. Employers raised pay, more people felt confident enough to ...

Clinton, Sanders turn up heat at debate

Candidates argue about who can achieve liberal goals