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Pope beseeches world leaders to protect the environment

NEW YORK – Pope Francis declared Friday that there is a “right of the environment” and that mankind has no authority to abuse it, telling more than 100 world leaders and diplomats at the Uni...

Boehner stuns Congress, announces resignation

WASHINGTON – Plunging Congress into deeper turmoil, House Speaker John Boehner abruptly announced his resignation Friday, shutting down a tea party drive to depose the nation’s highest-ranki...

World Briefs

Barriers remain for peace in Colombia BOGOTA, Colombia – A diplomatic breakthrough leaves many problems standing between Colombia and the prospect of peace after generations of ar...

Putin, Obama to meet on Monday

Crises in Syria, Ukraine to be discussed

Nation Briefs

Mother calls police shooting ‘unjust’ WILMINGTON, Del. – The police shooting of a man in a wheelchair was “unjust,” his mother said Thursday, but authorities described a different...

McConnell offers stopgap spending bill

WASHINGTON – The Senate’s top Republican moved swiftly to avoid a government shutdown in six days, pushing legislation that would keep agencies operating without a contentious fight over mon...

Pope Francis appeals to Congress

Thousands line streets in Manhattan to greet pontiff

Hajj tragedy adds to woes of Saudi rulers

More than 700 trampled to death near Mecca

Tour vehicle collides with charter bus; 4 dead

SEATTLE – A “duck boat” tour vehicle and a charter bus carrying foreign college students collided on a busy Seattle bridge Thursday, killing four people and sending dozens to hospitals. ...

Whales return to Long Island Sound after long hiatus

HARTFORD, Conn. – It has been the year of the whale on Long Island Sound, where fishermen and other boaters have reveled in the return of the marine mammals after an apparent two decade-long...

Nation & World Briefs

Volkswagen CEO quits, denies any wrongdoing BERLIN – Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn resigned Wednesday, days after admitting that the world’s top-selling carmaker had rigged die...

Donald Trump calls Hillary Clinton ‘shrill’

Contender’s brashness reason some will vote for him