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Bank bid goes to pot

Marijuana industry hopes for intervention

DATE: Jul 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Judge blocks release of recordings by anti-abortion group

SAN FRANCISCO A federal judge on Friday blocked the release of any recordings made at meetings of an abortion providers’ association by an anti-abortion group that previously revealed secre...

DATE: Jul 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Clinton releases tax, health records on busy Friday

WASHINGTON – Hillary Rodham Clinton is in “excellent physical condition and fit to serve as president,” her physician declared Friday – just one in a flood of disclosures about the Democrati...

DATE: Jul 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Dying trees may be growing problem

LOS ANGELES – As Californians and the communities they live in cut back water use and let lawns turn brown, arborists and state officials are worrying about a potentially dangerous ripple ef...

DATE: Jul 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World Briefs

NATO to help boost security in Iraq BRUSSELS – NATO allies agreed Friday on a package of measures to help strengthen Iraqi security and defense forces, including in the fields of...

DATE: Jul 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

American lion killer’s extradition being sought

HARARE, Zimbabwe – Zimbabwe will seek the extradition of an American dentist who killed a lion that was lured out of a national park and caused international outrage, a Cabinet minister said...

DATE: Jul 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Report: IS remains strong

Intelligence agencies raise doubts about U.S. campaign

DATE: Jul 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Brief

Judge blocks videos of abortion meetings SAN FRANCISCO â€“ A federal judge has blocked the release of any recordings made at meetings of abortion providers by an anti-abortion gro...

DATE: Jul 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Settlers in Israel suspected in attack

Palestinian family’s home firebombed, killing toddler

DATE: Jul 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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...

DATE: Jul 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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 ...

DATE: Jul 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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...

DATE: Jul 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World