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Embattled Kurds fight the IS group BAGHDAD – Turkish jets struck camps belonging to Kurdish militants in northern Iraq on Friday and Saturday in what were the first strikes since ...

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

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Judge: System failed to stop theater shooter LAFAYETTE, La. – John Russell Houser was deeply troubled long before he shot 11 people in a movie theater in Louisiana, but decades of...

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

50 years later, Dylan’s electric guitar returns to Newport festival

Rock icon, however, will not attend

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

Obama blends blunt and warm

U.S. President embraces his standing in Africa

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

Saudi-led airstrikes kill 120 in Yemen

SANAA, Yemen – Saudi-led coalition airstrikes hit a residential area in a quiet Red Sea town in Yemen late Friday, killing at least 120 people in the deadliest strike against civilians since...

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

Montana wildfire foils tourists

HELENA, Mont. – Hotels and campgrounds in Glacier National Park are flooded with calls from worried tourists canceling their reservations or asking whether the Montana landmark will stay ope...

DATE: Jul 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

FCC signs off on AT&T-DirecTV merger, creating pay-TV behemoth

WASHINGTON – The Federal Communications Commission voted Friday to approve AT&T’s $49 billion acquisition of DirecTV, blessing the biggest merger of the year and ending a months-long negotia...

DATE: Jul 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Pluto incredibly hazy with flowing ice

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Pluto is hazier than scientists expected and appears to be covered with flowing ice. The team responsible for the New Horizons flyby of Pluto last week rele...

DATE: Jul 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Texas jail death highlights frequency of inmate suicides

DALLAS – When Sandra Bland died in a small Texas jail last week, she became just the latest name on a long list of inmates whose deaths were determined to be suicides. Bland’s dea...

DATE: Jul 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

Hacking threat spurs vehicle recall by Fiat DETROIT – Fiat Chrysler has decided to recall about 1.4 million cars and trucks in the U.S. just days after two hackers revealed that t...

DATE: Jul 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Gunman known as angry man

TV show host says theater shooter ‘had screw loose’

DATE: Jul 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World Briefs

Burundi president wins another term BUJUMBURA, Burundi – Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza has won a third term in office, an electoral official announced Friday, amid controv...

DATE: Jul 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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