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Congress leaders, Obama back deal on budget

Proposal would end threat of ‘fiscal cliffs’

DATE: Oct 27, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Albuquerque mourns lost child

At funeral, small white coffin and memories of girl’s smile

DATE: Oct 27, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Uncertainty looms for exchange

DENVER – Colorado insurance regulators insisted Tuesday that they’re ready to open another health insurance enrollment period minus the state’s largest nonprofit health insurer. B...

DATE: Oct 27, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

85-year-old jewel thief’s retirement didn’t last

ATLANTA – Ten years ago, when she was 75 years old, Doris Payne swore she was done with a lifetime of pilfering jewels across two continents. Several arrests later, in 2013, she said again t...

DATE: Oct 27, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Poll: Use default, shutdown threats to cut spending

WASHINGTON – Even as Congress nears votes on a bipartisan deal that could yield two years of budget peace, an Associated Press-GfK poll has found that Republicans back home prefer a far more...

DATE: Oct 27, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. officials: Iran invited to next round of Syria talks

WASHINGTON – Iran has been invited to participate for the first time in international talks over Syria’s future, U.S. officials said Tuesday, a shift in strategy for the United States and it...

DATE: Oct 27, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Woman faces 2nd-degree murder charges in Oklahoma crash

STILLWATER, Okla. – A 25-year-old woman accused in the deaths of four people at the Oklahoma State homecoming parade is scheduled to appear in court Monday, after witnesses said she drove he...

DATE: Oct 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Ole Miss removes Mississippi flag with Confederate emblem

JACKSON, Miss. – The University of Mississippi removed the state flag on its Oxford campus Monday morning because the banner contains the Confederate battle emblem, which some see as a painf...

DATE: Oct 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

GOP candidates struggling to get Hispanic support

NEWARK, N.J. – Republican front-runner Donald Trump is widely unpopular among the nation’s Hispanics, a new AP-GfK poll finds, challenging the billionaire’s oft-repeated assertion that he wi...

DATE: Oct 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Over 260 dead as earthquake strikes Asia

KABUL, Afghanistan – A massive earthquake struck remote and impoverished regions of northern Afghanistan and Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 263 people as it shook buildings across Sout...

DATE: Oct 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation & World Briefs

U.S. Navy set to challenge China’s steep sea claims WASHINGTON – The U.S. Navy is preparing to sail a warship near artificial islands built by China in the South China Sea in a l...

DATE: Oct 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. thought Taliban had hospital

WASHINGTON – The Army Green Berets who requested the Oct. 3 airstrike on the Doctors without Borders trauma center in Afghanistan were aware it was a functioning hospital but believed it was...

DATE: Oct 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World