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Saudi allies scale back ties with Iran

TEHRAN, Iran – Allies of Saudi Arabia followed the kingdom’s lead and began scaling back diplomatic ties to Iran on Monday after the ransacking of Saudi diplomatic missions in the Islamic Re...

DATE: Jan 4, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Feds monitor armed protesters in Oregon but keep distance

BURNS, Ore. – Armed anti-government protesters took over a remote national wildlife refuge in Oregon as part of a decades-long fight over public lands in the West while federal authorities a...

DATE: Jan 4, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama defends forthcoming gun restrictions as constitutional

WASHINGTON – Gearing up for a certain confrontation with Congress, President Barack Obama defended his plans to tighten the nation’s gun-control restrictions on his own, insisting Monday tha...

DATE: Jan 3, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Stocks sink on first day of 2016 on China, Mideast worries

NEW YORK – The new year got off to an inauspicious start on Wall Street as stocks tumbled Monday in a global sell-off triggered by new fears of a slowdown in China and rising tensions in the...

DATE: Jan 3, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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Earthquake in India kills at least 8, injures more NEW DELHI - A 6.7 magnitude earthquake left at least eight dead, scores more injured and houses and buildings flattened in the n...

DATE: Jan 3, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Pentagon: Hundreds of military kids sexually abused annually

WASHINGTON – Cpl. Aaron C. Masa befriended a fellow Marine during training in North Carolina. But behind his buddy’s back, Masa sexually abused his 3-year-old stepdaughter and took sexually ...

DATE: Jan 3, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Cameron dismisses latest Islamic State video

LONDON – British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday dismissed a new video in which five purported British spies are shot dead by masked Islamic State extremists as propaganda from a grou...

DATE: Jan 3, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Poll: Whites and Republicans are the angriest Americans

Often, 2015 felt like the year of outrage. The reasons for this were large and small – from police brutality to all manners of microaggressions, from terrorism to the color of a coffee cup. ...

DATE: Jan 3, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Powder horn believed to be Alexander Hamilton’s up for sale

TRENTON, N.J. – A New Jersey dentist believes an engraved piece of cow horn that goes up for auction next month symbolizes the American dream for a man who was key to the founding of the Uni...

DATE: Jan 3, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Oregon standoff latest in dispute over Western lands

Protesting rancher calls for militias to aid occupation of wildlife refuge

DATE: Jan 3, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Uranium contaminates water in the West, Midwest

Cancer-causing metal finding its way to faucets

DATE: Jan 3, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Idaho man finds art in back hair

NAMPA, Idaho (AP) – One man’s back hair is another man’s canvas. At least that’s how Mike Wolfe, 35, of Nampa, Idaho, has decided to approach manscaping. Wolfe told K...

DATE: Jan 2, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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