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U.S. household wealth reaches new high of nearly $85 trillion

WASHINGTON – A rising stock market and climbing home prices boosted Americans’ net worth to a new high in the first three months of the year. The Federal Reserve said Thursday tha...

Officials: Nuke deal won’t answer Iran weapons questions on Day 1

WASHINGTON – World powers are prepared to accept a nuclear agreement with Iran that doesn’t immediately answer questions about past atomic weapons work, U.S. and Western officials said, even...

Nation & World Briefs

Amtrak engineer wasn’t on cellphone WASHINGTON – The engineer in last month’s fatal Amtrak crash wasn’t using his cellphone to talk, text or download anything just before the tra...

U.S. hopes to train more Sunni troops

Obama agrees to send more advisers to Iraq

Egypt fears militants may disrupt tourism

CAIRO – Militants set off an explosion near the Karnak temple in Luxor on Wednesday, the second assault in about a week targeting antiquities at Egyptian tourist sites, suggesting an ominous...

California lawmakers pass vaccine bill amid emotional debate

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California lawmakers on Tuesday approved a hotly contested bill that would impose one of the strictest vaccination laws in the country, after five hours of highly emotio...

Survey: Western Europe wary of supporting Russia's NATO neighbors

MOSCOW – After more than a year of war in Ukraine, Western European citizens are extremely wary of using military force to defend NATO allies from Russia, according to a wide-ranging opinion...

Families start to get crash victims’ remains

Germanwings flight crashed into mountain

Texas police officer in pool incident resigns

Chief says ex-trooper was threatened

World Briefs

Libyan leaders leave peace negotiations ABENGHAZI, Libya – UN-brokered negotiations aimed at stemming Libya’s collapse into a failed state threatened to fall apart after the count...

Military chief offers assurances to Israel

U.S. ally worried about Arab arms sales

Nation Briefs

House moves to keep ban on Internet tax WASHINGTON – The House voted Tuesday to make permanent a moratorium that prevents states from taxing access to the Internet. Und...