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Court ruling threatens drought-relief efforts

LOS ANGELES – In a ruling that Gov. Jerry Brown said puts a “straitjacket” on local governments trying to fight the severe statewide drought, an appeals court has found that an Orange County...

DATE: Apr 21, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Still sharp, Hubble telescope turns 25

Orbital camera has changed our understanding of the universe and space itself

DATE: Apr 21, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Chemistry student draws on love of comics for thesis

MADISON, Wis. – Late last spring, a doctoral student worked late into the night. As she doodled, her chemistry thesis took on a life of its own, transforming into a comic book. Ve...

DATE: Apr 21, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Vermont examines its hippie culture

Group looks at how state changed in ’70s

DATE: Apr 21, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Study links swarm of quakes in Texas to natural gas drilling

WASHINGTON – With real-time monitors, scientists have linked a swarm of small earthquakes west of Fort Worth, Texas, to nearby natural gas wells and wastewater injection. In 84 da...

DATE: Apr 21, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Same-sex marriage opponents urge Supreme Court to go slow

WASHINGTON – Same-sex marriage opponents acknowledge they face a tough task in trying to persuade the Supreme Court to allow states to limit marriage to a man and a woman. But the...

DATE: Apr 21, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Boat captain, crew member are arrested

CATANIA, Sicily – European leaders struggled for an adequate response in the face of unremitting migrant flows and continued instability in Libya following the feared drowning of as many as ...

DATE: Apr 20, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation & World Briefs

Whales’ endangered status may change HONOLULU – The federal government on Monday proposed removing most of the world’s humpback whales from the endangered species list, saying the...

DATE: Apr 20, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Parks may allow plant removal

Current rules prevent tribes from taking resources

DATE: Apr 20, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

EU foreign ministers to meet after latest migrant tragedy

MILAN – Rescue crews searched Monday for survivors and bodies from what could be the Mediterranean’s deadliest migrant tragedy ever as hundreds more migrants took to the sea undeterred and E...

DATE: Apr 20, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Talks to begin on Capitol Hill budget measure

WASHINGTON – Cuts to Medicare and the health-care law and almost $40 billion in unrequested money for overseas war-fighting operations top the agenda as congressional negotiators meet on Mon...

DATE: Apr 20, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

Message stifiled, pilot frustrated RUSKIN, Fla. – The letter carrier who caused a full-scale security review in Washington when he violated national airspace by landing his gyroco...

DATE: Apr 19, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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