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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...

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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...

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 ...

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...

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. ...

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...

Oregon standoff latest in dispute over Western lands

Protesting rancher calls for militias to aid occupation of wildlife refuge

Uranium contaminates water in the West, Midwest

Cancer-causing metal finding its way to faucets

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...

Saudis cut ties with Iran after clerk execution

TEHRAN, Iran – Saudi Arabia announced Sunday it was severing diplomatic relations with Shiite powerhouse Iran amid escalating tensions over the Sunni kingdom’s execution of a prominent Shiit...

A year of political pregame gives way to a sprint into Iowa

DES MOINES, Iowa – It has been a year of town halls and weekend forums and lunchtime meet-and-greets for those who would be president, with nights spent sparring in televised debates and end...

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Illinois, Missouri assess damage, clean up flooding KINCAID, Ill. – The Mississippi River and many of its tributaries continued their retreat Sunday from historic and deadly winte...