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Nation Briefs

Teen’s death in Mo. a hate crime? KANSAS CITY, Mo. – An SUV involved in the death of a Missouri teenager outside a Somali community center had an anti-Muslim message displayed in ...

World Briefs

Hong Kong teenager ends hunger strike HONG KONG – A prominent teenage leader of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests ended his hunger strike Saturday after 4½ days at his doctor’s u...

Another typhoon ‘smashes’ Philippines

Hagupit second storm to hit in two years

Job market is partying like its 1999

Unemployed finding work at a pace unprecedented post-Great Recession

400 killed annually by police

There’s reason officers rarely are indicted by grand juries

Colorado farmers want help with foreign-born workers

GRAND JUNCTION (AP) – There is nothing in President Barack Obama’s recently announced package of executive actions on immigration that directly reassures farmers and ranchers they’ll have ef...

NYC police feel ‘all alone’

Officers: Public outcry ignores Garner’s role in death

Rolling Stone backing off gang-rape story

WASHINGTON – Rolling Stone is casting doubt on the account it published of a young woman who says she was gang-raped at a fraternity party at the University of Virginia, saying there now app...

Cities bid for Obama library

4 universities seek to house planned center

Nation & World Briefs

NASA succesfully tests new spacecraft CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA’s new Orion spacecraft made a “bull’s-eye” Pacific splashdown Friday following a dramatic flight 3,604 miles beyo...

NASA’s Orion lands with ‘bullseye’ splashdown

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA’s new Orion spacecraft reached its zenith 3,604 miles above Earth on its orbital test flight Friday, the farthest a spacecraft built for humans has traveled from ...

Obama taps Pentagon veteran Carter to lead DOD

WASHINGTON – The nomination of policy wonk Ashton Carter to lead the Defense Department marks the most significant change to President Barack Obama’s beleaguered national security team in ne...