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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...

World Brief

3 win Nobel Prize for LED light work STOCKHOLM – An invention that promises to revolutionize the way the world lights its homes and offices – and already helps create the glowing...

Europe scrambles to reduce threat from Ebola

MADRID – Health officials scrambled Tuesday to figure out how West Africa’s Ebola outbreak got past Europe’s defenses, quarantining four people at a Madrid hospital where a Spanish nursing a...

Where liveability really heads South

Region ranks below average in many areas

2 more state gay-marriage bans fall

Weddings could begin in Nevada, Idaho by today

Nation & World Briefs

Senator: Debate attacks on ISIS NEW YORK – U.S. Sen. Bob Casey says it would be “very healthy” for the United States if members of Congress spend about two weeks getting briefing...

New concern worldwide as Spanish nurse gets Ebola

WASHINGTON – Raising fresh concern around the world, a nurse in Spain on Monday became the first person known to catch Ebola outside the outbreak zone in West Africa. In the U.S., President ...

Islamic State wages assault on Syrian border town

MURSITPINAR, Turkey – Islamic State fighters backed by tanks and artillery pushed into an embattled Syrian town on the border with Turkey on Monday, touching off heavy street battles with th...

Spanish nurse in Madrid diagnosed with Ebola

MADRID – In the first known transmission of the current outbreak of Ebola outside West Africa, a Spanish nurse who treated a missionary for the disease at a Madrid hospital has tested positi...

3 win medicine Nobel for discovering brain’s GPS

STOCKHOLM – A U.S.-British scientist and a Norwegian husband-and-wife research team won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discovering the brain’s navigation system – the inner GPS that ...

High court denies gay marriage appeals

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court unexpectedly cleared the way Monday for a dramatic expansion of gay marriage in the United States and may have signaled that it’s only a matter of time before ...