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U.S. says recent hacks may be linked

Chinese intelligence may want data on government workers

DATE: Jun 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Carter: U.S. must boost military exercises to counter Russia

ABOARD A US MILITARY AIRCRAFT – The United States needs to increase the number of military exercises and training programs across Europe and strengthen NATO’s intelligence sharing to better ...

DATE: Jun 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

2 die in blasts at Kurdish rally

Incident comes days before Turkish election

DATE: Jun 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Taliban meets Afghans

Several female lawmakers seek to bridge chasm

DATE: Jun 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Probe will give insight on Pluto’s ‘ornery teens’

Pluto, once our most distant planetary sibling in the solar system and now reclassified as one of many “dwarf” cousins, is set to get a lot less mysterious this summer. NASA’s New Horizons s...

DATE: Jun 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World Briefs

Saddam Hussein’s envoy dies in hospital BAGHDAD – Tariq Aziz, the debonair Iraqi diplomat who made his name by staunchly defending Saddam Hussein to the world during three wars an...

DATE: Jun 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

Google to supply reports on accidents NEW YORK – Google will release monthly reports on the performance of its self-driving cars, and it disclosed summaries of the 12 accidents t...

DATE: Jun 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Hall of fame honors six game-changers

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – The first inductees into the new World Video Game Hall of Fame include “Pong,” the game that introduced millions to electronic play, “Doom,” which triggered a debate over t...

DATE: Jun 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. employers add solid 280k jobs; rate inches up to 5.5 percent

WASHINGTON – U.S. employers added a robust 280,000 jobs in May, showing that the economy has regained momentum after starting 2015 in a deep slump. The unemployment rate ticked u...

DATE: Jun 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Germanwings co-pilot visited several doctors

MARSEILLE, France – A state prosecutor says a co-pilot with a history of depression who crashed a Germanwings airliner into the French Alps had reached out to dozens of doctors ahead of the ...

DATE: Jun 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

China suspected in massive breach of federal personnel data

WASHINGTON – China-based hackers are suspected of breaking into the computer networks of the U.S. government personnel office and stealing identifying information of at least 4 million feder...

DATE: Jun 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Perry joins crowded presidential race

Ex-Texas governor attacks Obama’s leadership

DATE: Jun 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Photos: Durango High School basketball teams lose to Montrose High School

Photos: Local girls high school wrestling at La Plata TriDurango girls wrestling went 2-0 to win Tri on Thursday night at Bayfield

Durango girls wrestling went 2-0 to win Tri on Thursday night at Bayfield

Photos: Fort Lewis College women’s and men’s basketball take on Westminster UniversityBoth Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Both Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Photos: An afternoon in 2004 with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell as he works on Capitol HillDurango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Durango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Photos and video: ICE protests return to DurangoAbout a dozen protesters tried to block federal agents from leaving with a detainee on Thursday