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Dig returns to colonial New York site

LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. – An archaeological project has returned to an artifact-rich state park in the southern Adirondacks on what was the focal point of the warring British and French empires mo...

University of Michigan: Consumer sentiment dips in July

WASHINGTON – U.S. consumer sentiment slipped this month but remains at healthy levels, the University of Michigan said Friday. Michigan’s index of consumer sentiment fell to 93.1 ...

Germany shelves Nazi crimes probe of U.S. man

BERLIN– German prosecutors have shelved their Nazi war crimes investigation of a retired Minnesota carpenter whom The Associated Press exposed as a former commander in an SS-led unit, saying...

Nation Briefs

Police officer enters plea in murder case CINCINNATI – A University of Cincinnati police officer who fatally shot a motorist during a traffic stop pleaded not guilty Thursday to ...

Federal shutdown looms after break

Congress will face divisive issues when it returns from August recess

World Brief

Six injured in attack at gay-pride parade JERUSALEM – Revelers dancing and singing through the streets of Jerusalem during the holy city’s annual gay-pride parade were left shriek...

Flight 370 likely to stay hidden

Ocean currents make tracking wreckage difficult

California says water use fell by 27 percent in June

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Water use in California fell by 27 percent in June, passing the conservation target set by Gov. Jerry Brown during the drought, regulators said Thursday. Data...

Confederate flags left outside MLK’s church

Reverend calls incident ‘terroristic threat’

Nation & World Briefs

3 university grads suing Rolling Stone RICHMOND, Va. – Three University of Virginia graduates and members of a fraternity profiled in a debunked account of a gang rape in a retra...

GOP bickering threatens 2016 hopes

Divided party struggling to show it can effectively run Congress

Foes call for ban on trophy hunting

JOHANNESBURG – Animal-rights activists are pushing for African countries to stop trophy hunting after a 13-year-old collared lion named Cecil was allegedly killed without a permit in Zimbabw...