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World leaders focus on future in Paris’ climate summit

LE BOURGET, France – With dramatic vows to save future generations from an overheated planet, the largest gathering ever of world leaders began two weeks of talks Monday aimed at producing t...

DATE: Nov 30, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Cyber Monday sales losing some luster

NEW YORK – Retailers are rolling out online deals on so-called “Cyber Monday.” But now that shoppers are online all the time anyway, the 10-year-old shopping holiday is losing some of its lu...

DATE: Nov 30, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Japanese vessel to kill 333 minke whales for ‘research’

On Tuesday, Japan’s whaling fleet will set out on a three-month-long hunt for minke whales. The Japanese government argues that this hunt – which will kill 333 whales, about a third of the a...

DATE: Nov 29, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Turkey won’t apologize over Russian warplane downing

BRUSSELS – Turkey won’t apologize to Russia for shooting down a warplane operating over Syria, the Turkish prime minister said Monday, stressing that the military was doing its job defending...

DATE: Nov 29, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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Police shooting cited in U of Chicago threat CHICAGO – An online threat against the University of Chicago that led the school to cancel all classes and activities on Monday appear...

DATE: Nov 29, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama: U.S. leads climate change fight

PARIS – President Barack Obama said Sunday that American leadership was helping make gains in the global fight against climate change as he tried to reassure world leaders assembling for a h...

DATE: Nov 29, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

What you hate about waiting in line isn't the wait at all

If the people who study the psychology of waiting in line – yes, there is such a thing – have an origin story, it’s this: It was the 1950s, and a high-rise office building in Manh...

DATE: Nov 29, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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Suspect charged for fatally shooting Pa. police officer NEW FLORENCE, Pa. – A man suspected of fatally shooting a police officer who responded to a domestic dispute was charged wi...