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Obama meets immigrants

President confident of court case

Nation & World Briefs

Water leaks into astronaut’s helmet CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A spacewalking astronaut ended up with unwanted water in his helmet Wednesday after breezing through a cable and lube j...

Obama aides sharpen criticism of Netanyahu ahead of speech

WASHINGTON – The strain between the U.S. and Israel deepened Wednesday, as top advisers to President Barack Obama sharply rebuked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s upcoming speech to Congr...

General warns of new Russian threat

WASHINGTON – The fighting in eastern Ukraine is “getting worse every day,” and Western efforts to deter Russian intervention are having little effect, NATO’s top military commander said Wedn...

Netanyahu blasts West over Iran talks

JERUSALEM – In his sharpest criticism yet, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that world powers “have given up” on stopping Iran from developing nuclear weapons in ongo...

Senate to vote on funding bill

Republican senators hope to avoid Homeland Security shutdown

Justices appear to favor Muslim denied job over headscarf

WASHINGTON – Have you heard the one about the Sikh, the Hasidic Jew, the Muslim and the nun who walked into a job interview? Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito channeled his inne...

Health-care law pushing rate of uninsured down

WASHINGTON – Even as it faces another Supreme Court challenge, President Barack Obama’s health-care law has steadily reduced the number of uninsured Americans, according to an extensive surv...

Boehner declares Keystone fight not over yet

Obama vetoes Republican-backed bill approving pipeline

Germany readies for ‘Mein Kampf’

BERLIN - Researchers are on track to finish roughly 4,000 annotations and historical notes to accompany a new German-language edition of Adolf Hitler’s manifest, Mein Kampf, to be published ...

Senate GOP seeks way to break gridlock

Senator offers to allow vote on Homeland Security funding

Nation Brief

Californians to vote on plastic bag ban SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A trade group has turned in enough signatures to qualify a referendum on California’s plastic bag ban law, suspending...