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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...

French police detain 9 in massive hunt for 2 suspects

PARIS – Frightened yet defiant, French residents held a day of mourning Thursday for 12 people slain at a Paris newspaper. French police hunted for the two heavily armed brothers suspected i...

Attack highlights clash of cultures

Press freedom not welcome everywhere

House session gets off to rocky start

Boehner votes divides GOP members

World Briefs

Storm brings snow to parts of Mideast ANJAR, Lebanon – Snow fell in parts of the Middle East on Wednesday as a powerful winter storm swept through the region, killing two Syrian r...

Nation Briefs

Officials IDsuspect in El Paso attack EL PASO, Texas – Federal officials say a man suspected of fatally shooting a doctor and himself at an El Paso veterans’ clinic was a former c...

Much of U.S. shivering from arctic blast

How cold is it across the U.S.? Too cool for school in many parts of the country. And so cold in the Minnesota-St. Paul area that you could get frostbite in less time than it takes to buy ca...

FBI director confident North Korea was behind cyberattack

NEW YORK – There is strong evidence that North Korea was behind the cyberattack on Sony and that the leadership there will orchestrate further strikes against American targets, top U.S. offi...

FBI: NAACP explosion in Colo. could be domestic terror

The FBI says agents are investigating whether the detonation of an improvised explosive device outside a building housing NAACP offices was an act of domestic terrorism. No one wa...

Police hunt for 2 in French shooting that killed 12; 1 surrenders

PARIS – One man sought in the deadly shooting at a French satirical paper has turned himself in, and police hunted Thursday for two heavily armed men with possible links to al-Qaida in the m...

Science seeking faraway answers

New research focusing on exoplanets