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Pipeline plan clears Nebraska hurdle

State high court tosses lawsuit to block Keystone XL project

Fears of wider threat grow

Officials seek answers about terror suspects’ pasts

Archaeologist donates Atari game

BISMARCK, N.D. – A University of North Dakota researcher who took part in a famous dig for discarded video games at a New Mexico landfill has donated one of the cartridges to the school to ...

Elvis’ 1st record sells for $300K

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – An acetate recording of the ballad “My Happiness,” the first song Elvis Presley ever recorded, sold at auction Thursday night for $300,000. An undisclosed Inter...

December employment gain caps best year for US labor market since 1999

By Shobhana Chandra © 2015, Bloomberg News A rise in employment and a falling jobless rate in December capped the best year for the labor market since 1999 and reinforc...

French police kill gunmen in twin attacks, free 16 hostages

By LORI HINNANT and ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press PARIS – With explosions and gunfire, security forces Friday ended three days of terror around Paris, killing the two ...

GOP set to challenge Obama’s veto threats

Republicans OK pipeline, limits on Obamacare

U.S. knew about suspects in deadly attack in Paris

PARIS – The two French brothers wanted in the newspaper-office bloodbath in Paris already were known to U.S. counterterrorism authorities and had been put on the American no-fly list, a seni...

Many could lose food stamp benefits

Improving economy will hurt many recipients without jobs

Nation & World Briefs

Obama proposing free tuition program WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Thursday proposed making community college free “for everybody who is willing to work for it.” ...

Obama pushes homeownership steps in once hard-hit Arizona

PHOENIX – Standing at the epicenter of the nation’s recent housing crisis, President Barack Obama on Thursday promoted plans to lower some mortgage insurance premiums, a move the White House...

Vermont governor re-elected after failing to win majority

MONTPELIER, Vt. – Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin was sworn in to a third two-year term after his failure to win a majority of the popular vote in November forced state lawmakers to decide the w...