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Greece defends ‘harsh’ reforms it promised creditors

ATHENS, Greece – Greece’s government on Tuesday defended the billions worth of “harsh” new budget savings it has offered in talks with creditors, as some of the governing party’s own lawmake...

Confederate flag battle spreads

Calls to remove symbols spread across South

U.S. to ease rules on hostage ransoms

Families won’t face prosecution for negotiating with terrorists

Life-size sculptures take to the streets

Artist’s work turns heads in New York

Senate vote moves Obama’s trade agenda to brink of enactment

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s long-pursued trade agenda took a giant step toward becoming law on Tuesday, and opponents grudgingly conceded they now must fight on less-favorable terr...

U.S. chides China but avoids clouding cooperation

WASHINGTON – The United States voiced deep concern Tuesday over state-sponsored cybertheft and tension in the disputed seas of East Asia but did not let the sharp disagreements with China on...

Nation Briefs

S.C. governor: Remove Confederate flag CHARLESTON, S.C. – South Carolina’s governor declared Monday that the Confederate flag should be removed from the Statehouse grounds as she...

Hundreds of firefighters join battle against Calif. fire

Lake Tahoe blaze has burned nearly 9,500 acres

Obama says racism in U.S. ‘not cured’

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama says the history of slavery and segregation is “still part of our DNA” in the United States, even if racial epithets no longer show up in polite conversat...

World Briefs

Taliban attacks Afghan parliament KABUL, Afghanistan – A Taliban suicide bomber struck the entrance to the Afghan parliament Monday, and gunmen tried to storm the heavily guarded ...

Help for Hemingway on the way from the U.S.

Supplies to be sent to build conservation lab

Greek debt: Europe cautiously optimistic

BRUSSELS – Greece has finally offered economic reforms that creditors consider potentially acceptable, giving Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras a couple days to turn a spirit of goodwill into a ...