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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 ...

DATE: Dec 5, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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...

DATE: Dec 5, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

House rebukes Obama on immigration

WASHINGTON – Emboldened House Republicans issued a stern rebuke to President Barack Obama over immigration Thursday, passing a bill declaring his executive actions to curb deportations “null...

DATE: Dec 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

40 people rescued from flash flood in California

LOS ANGELES – A dayslong storm took a parting shot as it moved out of the drought-stricken state Thursday, dumping more heavy rain that triggered a flash flood and stranded more than three d...

DATE: Dec 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Bird’s fate shaping energy development in the West

SARATOGA, Wyo. – Efforts to conserve a struggling species of grouse that ranges across the Western U.S. are having far-reaching effects on the region’s energy industry as the Obama administr...

DATE: Dec 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

New violence in Chechnya leaves at least 20 dead

MOSCOW – In a stunning return to siege-style violence in the Russian region of Chechnya, well-armed Islamist militants seized an empty school and office building Thursday before an hours-lon...

DATE: Dec 3, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation & World Briefs

NASA postpones test of Orion spacecraft CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Wind gusts and sluggish fuel valves conspired to keep NASA’s new Orion spacecraft on the launch pad Thursday, delay...

DATE: Dec 3, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Ex-police chief charged in death of black man

ORANGEBURG, S.C. – A white former police chief here was indicted on murder charges in the 2011 shooting death of an unarmed black man after an argument, a case that instantly drew compariso...

DATE: Dec 3, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Lethal-force cases hard to prosecute

Court ruling makes it difficult to second-guess police actions

DATE: Dec 3, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

States seeking to block Obama on immigration

AUSTIN, Texas – Texas is leading a 17-state coalition suing over President Barack Obama’s recently announced executive actions on immigration, arguing in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that the m...

DATE: Dec 3, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation & World Briefs

Company won’t expand air-bag recall DETROIT – Japan’s Takata Corp. refused to comply with a U.S. government demand for an expanded recall of its air bags that can explode and sho...

DATE: Dec 3, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. health-care bill may be heading up

Spending grew at slowest rate in decades

DATE: Dec 3, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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