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Police hunt suspects in New Orleans mass park shooting

NEW ORLEANS – Police on Monday sought to determine what touched off a wild shootout in a crowd of hundreds of people at a New Orleans playground, where an evening of fun at a block party swi...

Brussels stays on high alert over threat

BRUSSELS – With hundreds of troops patrolling Brussels for a second day and authorities hunting one or more suspected militants, the Belgian government chose Sunday to keep the capital on th...

Man comes to aid of woman, shot by her attacker in New Orleans

Peter Gold, a fourth-year medical student at Tulane, was driving down a New Orleans street early on Friday when he spotted a woman in distress. It was 4 a.m. and the woman was bei...

Mali hotel attack aimed at peace talks

BAMAKO, Mali – The assault on a luxury hotel in Mali’s capital that killed 19 people was a clear attempt to derail a fragile peace process meant to stabilize the country’s volatile north, a ...

College presidents defend importance of free speech

HARTFORD, Conn. – As debates about race and other social issues flare on campuses, college presidents are increasingly intervening to draw a line when cultural sensitivity conflicts with fre...

Nation & World Briefs

Experts foresee big Medicare increases WASHINGTON – With time running out on open enrollment season, many seniors are facing sharply higher premiums for Medicare’s popular prescri...

Homicides of transgender women in U.S. reach alarming high

For a few transgender Americans, this has been a year of glamour and fame. For many others, 2015 has been fraught with danger, violence and mourning. While Caitlyn Jenner made the...

Nation Briefs

People hid in band’s dressing room in Paris NEW YORK – Two members of the Eagles of Death Metal band tell VICE that several people hid in their dressing room during the deadly ter...

Head over to a 99-cent store for goofy, stylin’ holiday gifts

NEW YORK – Not looking to spend a bundle on holiday gifts? Head to the nearest dollar store instead. Such emporiums are alive with holiday trimmings at the moment, but they’re als...

Kentucky town saddened by girl’s slaying

Justice sought for 7-year-old child

Snow piles up across Midwest

Temperatures drop after snowstorm passes through

Mali attack took advantage of security lapses

19 killed at Radisson Blu hotel