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GOP weighs increase in war funds

WASHINGTON – House Republicans are considering adding tens of billions of dollars to President Barack Obama’s request for overseas military operations in an effort to get around tight limits...

Iran confronts U.S. about letter

LAUSANNE, Switzerland – Iranian diplomats twice confronted their American counterparts about an open letter from Republican senators who warned that any nuclear deal could expire the day Pre...

Factory output falls for third straight month in February

WASHINGTON – Output at U.S. factories fell for a third straight month in February, driven by a big drop in production at auto plants. The Federal Reserve said Monday that manufact...

Obama administration: 16.4 million have gained health insurance

WASHINGTON – More than 16 million Americans have gained insurance coverage as a result of President Barack Obama’s health-care law, the administration said Monday as the White House prepares...

A possible answer to why Denver is Mile High City

DENVER – Geologists may finally be able to explain why Denver, the Mile High City, is a mile high: water. A new theory suggests that chemical reactions, triggered by water far bel...

U.S., Iran press for nuke pact

LAUSANNE, Switzerland – The United States and Iran plunged back into negotiation Sunday, hoping to end once and for all a decades-long standoff that has raised the specter of an Iranian nuc...

Nation & World Briefs

Gay groups march in Boston parade BOSTON – Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day parade made history Sunday as two gay and lesbian groups marched after decades of opposition that went all th...

Man, 20, charged with shooting 2 officers in Ferguson

CLAYTON, Mo. – A 20-year-old man charged Sunday with shooting two police officers watching over a demonstration outside the Ferguson Police Department had attended a protest there earlier th...

Say what? 6.5M in U.S. have reached age 112?

Social Security death records in a backlog

16 ski resorts worth hundreds of millions could be sold

NEWRY, Maine – A real estate investment trust that’s considering getting out of the snow business could sell more than dozen ski resorts from Maine to California that are worth hundreds of m...

Nation Briefs

Listeriosis a factor, not cause, in deaths KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Kansas health officials say a food-borne illness linked to some Blue Bell ice cream products may have been a contribu...

Clinton email server key to Benghazi inquiry, says GOP

WASHINGTON – A member of the House committee investigating the deadly attacks against Americans in Benghazi, Libya, says Hillary Rodham Clinton’s email server could help lawmakers answer vit...