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Obama, Saudi king discuss Yemen war

Kingdom wants more support for Syrian rebels

DATE: Sep 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Millions of Americans’ wills now available online

BOSTON – Paul Revere left all his household furniture to an unmarried daughter. Harriet Beecher Stowe bequeathed her stock in several railroads and a Florida orange grove to her s...

DATE: Sep 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. employers added 173K jobs in August; rate falls to 5.1 percent

WASHINGTON – The U.S. unemployment rate fell to a seven-year low in August as employers added a modest 173,000 jobs, a key piece of evidence for the Federal Reserve in deciding whether to ra...

DATE: Sep 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Kentucky county clerk plans to appeal jailing

Says licenses aren’t legal without her signature

DATE: Sep 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation & World Briefs

Church shooter to face death penalty CHARLESTON, S.C. The white man accused of killing nine black churchgoers in what authorities said was a racially motivated crime during Bibl...

DATE: Sep 3, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Hungary blasts EU on migration amid chaos at train station

BUDAPEST, Hungary – Hungary’s leader railed Thursday at Germany and EU leaders for lacking urgency in dealing with Europe’s migrant crisis as chaos reigned back home, where migrants by the t...

DATE: Sep 3, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump signs pledge to back GOP’s 2016 presidential nominee

WASHINGTON – Presidential candidate Donald Trump ruled out the prospect of a third-party White House bid Thursday and vowed to support the Republican Party’s nominee – whomever it may be. ...

DATE: Sep 3, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Ky. clerk rejects bid to avoid jail

Most deputies will issue marriage licenses to gays

DATE: Sep 3, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Judge to move forward with suit over NSA’s bulk collection

WASHINGTON – A federal judge said Wednesday he plans to push ahead with a challenge to the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of telephone data on hundreds of millions of Americans, ...

DATE: Sep 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

China marks Japan WWII defeat, shows rising power in parade

BEIJING – Tanks, missiles and troops in lock-step filed past Beijing’s iconic Tiananmen Square in a massive parade Thursday commemorating Japan’s World War II defeat 70 years ago and underli...

DATE: Sep 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

In Alaska, Obama becomes 1st president to enter the Arctic

KOTZEBUE, Alaska – President Barack Obama crossed the Arctic Circle on Wednesday in a first by a sitting U.S. president, telling residents in a far-flung Alaska village that their plight sho...

DATE: Sep 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. report notes other Fergusons are possible

WASHINGTON – The police response to unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, last summer offers lessons in how not to handle mass demonstrations, according to a Justice Department report that warns suc...

DATE: Sep 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World