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Ebola screening measures rest on federal law

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration’s plans to screen certain airline passengers for exposure to Ebola are based on the Constitution and long-established legal authority that would almost ...

First gay couple gets married in Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS – Gay couples began getting married Thursday in Las Vegas – the self-proclaimed marriage capital of the world – ending a dizzying legal fight that kept them waiting for days. ...

ERs bracing for Ebola panic

Poll finds many Americans fear getting disease

White House denies cover-up in scandal

Volunteer accused of hiring prostitute during presidential trip

Nation & World Briefs

Nevada clerks issue first licenses to gays LAS VEGAS – Frustration turned to elation Thursday as a dizzying legal wrangle ended with gay couples receiving marriage licenses in La...

Strikes didn’t end threat from Syrian terror cell

WASHINGTON – The barrage of U.S. cruise missiles last month aimed at a Syrian terrorist cell killed just one or two key militants, according to American intelligence officials who say the gr...

Increased flooding seen on Atlantic Coast

WASHINGTON – Daily flooding caused by high tides will occur in the District of Columbia and Annapolis, Maryland, within three decades as sea levels continue to rise because of global warming...

Nation & World Briefs

Justice delays Idaho gay marriages WASHINGTON – Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy on Wednesday allowed same-sex marriage to begin in Nevada, clarifying that an earlier order t...

3 win Nobel

Researchers improved microscopes

U.S. orders agents to monitor travelers for Ebola

WASHINGTON – The Homeland Security Department has ordered agents at airports and other ports of entry to observe everyone coming into the United States for potential signs of Ebola infection...

U.S. to screen more travelers for Ebola

First U.S. patient dies in Dallas

Blunders renew questions about Biden’s discipline

WASHINGTON – Vice President Joe Biden’s supporters often brush off his slips of the tongue as byproducts of the speak-your-mind politics many Americans crave. But this time, Biden’s verbal b...