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Craft nears dwarf planet

PASADENA, Calif. – A NASA spacecraft is about to reach the end of a nearly eight-year journey and make the first rendezvous with a dwarf planet. The Dawn craft will slip into orbi...

Obama to sign funding bill for security agency

GOP forced to drop demands for immigration concessions

U.S. report faults police in Ferguson

Officials: Review finds racial bias in legal system

Netanyahu assails Iran nuclear talks; Obama disagrees

WASHINGTON – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Congress on Tuesday that an emerging agreement between Iran and the United States would all but guarantee that Tehran gets nuclear...

Nation Briefs

Veteran Dem. Sen. Mikulski retires BALTIMORE – Sen. Barbara Mikulski, a tough and dogged daughter of working-class Baltimore who rose to become the longest-serving woman in the hi...

GOP: Our plans would help people losing health subsidies

WASHINGTON – Congressional Republicans sent a message Monday that they hope the Supreme Court and voters will hear: They have ideas to keep the country’s health-care system from crumbling if...

Jeb Bush distances himself from family

LAS VEGAS – Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush distanced himself from his family on Monday as he courted senior citizens in Nevada, the first stop in a national tour aimed at key states on the pre...

World Briefs

Iraq launches effort retake Tikrit BAGHDAD – Backed by Iranian-supported Shiite militias, Iraqi forces launched a large-scale offensive Monday to retake Saddam Hussein’s hometown ...

Netanyahu assails deal with Iran, touts U.S. ties

WASHINGTON – Seeking to lower tensions, Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. officials cast their dispute over Iran as a family squabble Monday, even as the Israeli leader claimed President Barack Ob...

Netanyahu: Iran nuclear deal threatens Israel’s security

WASHINGTON – Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted Monday that his plans to address Congress are not aimed at disrespecting President Barack Obama, even as he assailed the U.S. l...

Veteran Democratic Sen. Mikulski won’t seek re-election

WASHINGTON (AP) – Sen. Barbara Mikulski, the longest serving woman in Congress, says she won’t seek re-election to a sixth term. The 78-year-old Maryland Democrat made the announc...

Nation Briefs

Texas mulls whether 18 is an adult AUSTIN, Texas – Jason Wang and Johnny Truong were part of a gang that dressed as utility workers and held a suburban Dallas homeowner at gunpoin...