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S&P 500, Dow reach new heights

NEW YORK – U.S. stocks rose Friday, sending benchmark indexes to records, after European officials reached a deal to extend Greece’s aid for four months. The Standard & Poor’s 500...

World Briefs

Liberia ending curfew as Ebola threat eases MONROVIA, Liberia – Liberia’s president on Friday ordered officials to lift an overnight curfew put in place six months ago to fight th...

Ukraine fighting continues

Cease-fire agreement near collapse

Deal eases eurozone concerns

Greece, European creditors OK extension for loan program

White House defends immigration rule

U.S. seeks stay of judge’s order delaying program

Nation Briefs

Error will delay tax returns for many WASHINGTON – In a new setback for the health-care law and the people it’s supposed to help, the government said Friday it made a tax-reportin...

800,000 HealthCare.gov customers given wrong tax info

WASHINGTON – About 800,000 HealthCare.gov customers got the wrong tax information from the government, the Obama administration said Friday, and officials are asking those affected to delay ...

Texas attorney general argues gay couple’s marriage is void

AUSTIN, Texas – As a newlywed lesbian couple in Texas celebrate defying a statewide ban on gay marriage, the state’s Republican attorney general is preparing to tell a court Friday why it sh...

Cuba sees Obama terror promise as healing of historic wound

HAVANA – A year after he took office, President Ronald Reagan placed Cuba on a list of state sponsors of terror for backing leftist guerrilla groups in Central and South America. ...

Researchers ignite fears of airborne-Ebola

A team of prominent researchers suggested Thursday that limited airborne transmission of the Ebola virus is “very likely,” a hypothesis that could reignite the debate that started last fall ...

Nation & World Briefs

‘Superbug’ linked to deaths at hospital LOS ANGELES – UCLA says seven people were infected and nearly 200 exposed to a potentially deadly, drug-resistant “superbug” on contaminate...

Obama praises ‘truly American ideal’

Historic neighbhorhood named national monument