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Ousted Haitian dictator Duvalier dies

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Jean-Claude Duvalier, who presided over what was widely acknowledged as a corrupt and brutal regime as the self-proclaimed “president for life” of Haiti until a popul...

Crew rids apartment of Ebola

In Dallas, family moved to a private residence

Nation & World Briefs

Foes vow to appeal Texas abortion law EL PASO, Texas – Abortion-rights lawyers are predicting “a showdown” at the U.S. Supreme Court after federal appellate judges allowed full i...

Islamist group claims killing of hostage

Briton beheaded in new video

Forget fall; California is hot

Despite temps, heat wave isn’t unprecedented

Men try to force Hong Kong protesters off streets

HONG KONG – Pushing, grabbing and cursing, hundreds of men sought on Friday to break up barricades set up by activists in Hong Kong streets they have been occupying over the past week in pro...

Surge of hiring cuts U.S. jobless rate to 5.9 percent

The Labor Department’s report Friday also showed that employers added a combined 69,000 more jobs in July and August than the government had previously estimated. The unemploymen...

Justices let gay-marriage cases sit

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Thursday accepted new cases about congressional redistricting, judicial candidates asking for campaign donations and religious discrimination. But the justi...

Hong Kong protesters agree to talks

Former colony’s leader refuses to step down

Armed groups threaten upheaval in Mideast

Experts: Region returning to warlord era

Secret Service moving forward in wake of scandal

WASHINGTON – With the dust still settling from a series of embarrassing security failures that marred the Secret Service’s reputation and forced its director to resign, the agency is startin...

Family confined in Ebola case

Liberia may charge man who brought virus to U.S.