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Saudi women drivers referred to terrorism court

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Two Saudi women detained for nearly a month in defiance of a ban on females driving were referred on Thursday to a court established to try terrorism cases, sev...

Father of pilot captured by IS pleads for release

AMMAN, Jordan – The father of a Jordanian pilot captured by the Islamic State group in Syria pleaded for his son’s release on Thursday, asking them to treat him well in captivity as a fellow...

Leaders call for calm after police shooting near Ferguson

BERKELEY, Mo. – The mayor of the St. Louis suburb of Berkeley urged calm Wednesday after a white police officer killed a black 18-year-old who police said pointed a gun at him, reigniting t...

Sony hackers may remain unknown

Even experts are uncertain if North Korea is behind attack

Nation & World Briefs

Military prosecutes few desertion cases WASHINGTON – The U.S. Army has prosecuted about 1,900 cases of desertion since 2001, despite tens of thousands of soldiers fleeing the serv...

Obama to move Guantanamo inmates

President hopes to close detention camp

Extremists capture Jordanian pilot

AMMAN, Jordan – Islamic State militants captured a Jordanian pilot after his warplane crashed in Syria while carrying out airstrikes Wednesday, making him the first foreign military member t...

Severe storms slam the South, killing at least 4

COLUMBIA, Miss. – Power companies managed to restore electricity to thousands of people in Mississippi on Wednesday, a day after a powerful storm swept through the southeastern U.S. and kill...

Ukraine peace talks start in Minsk

MINSK, Belarus – Another round of talks aimed at reaching a stable cease-fire in Ukraine between its government forces and pro-Russian armed groups began Wednesday in the Belarusian capital,...

Health official: Enrollment off to good start

Says Congress wanted subsidies to be available in all states

More outages plague North Korea’s Internet

SEOUL, South Korea – Key North Korean websites suffered intermittent outages Tuesday after a nearly 10-hour shutdown that followed a U.S. vow to respond to a crippling cyberattack on Sony Pi...

Merry Christmas, Mr. Kim

Sony agrees to release ‘The Interview’ after all