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WASHINGTON – Confused by President Barack Obama’s health-care law? How about the debate about government surveillance? The way the Federal Reserve affects interest rates? You’re f...

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Nation & World Briefs

Admiral: North Korea seeks mobile ICBM WASHINGTON – North Korea’s military is taking steps to field a road-mobile intercontinental ballistic missile that could threaten the United...

Guess who is losing faith in the American Dream?

Data shared on the Brookings Institution’s FixGov blog is a pretty good barometer of the country’s mood over the past two years: Americans everywhere, regardless of age, sex, education, part...

Abbas seeks date for withdrawal

U.N. asked to pressure Israel on deal

Celebrated Manet portrait headed to NYC auction

NEW YORK – A celebrated portrait by Edouard Manet of a Parisian actress in a fancy dress and bonnet is heading to auction and could set a record for the artist. The French impres...

Fire at air traffic center halts flights across U.S.

CHICAGO – All flights in and out of Chicago’s two airports were halted Friday after a fire at a suburban air traffic control center that authorities said was deliberately set by a contract e...

U.S.: Most new immigrant families fail to report

WASHINGTON – For nearly three months this summer, the Obama administration carefully avoided answering questions about what happened to tens of thousands of immigrant families caught illegal...

U.S. consumer sentiment index reaches 14-month high

The University of Michigan said Friday that its index of consumer sentiment rose to 84.6 in September from 82.5 in August. That’s the second highest level in the past seven years, although t...

This dinosaur was more than just nosy

This summer was pretty earth-shattering for dinos. Paleontologists reported the biggest ever dinosaur, the biggest ever predatory dinosaur (which also probably swam and ate sharks), the larg...

Obama pays tribute to Holder

Attorney general leaving after six years

Nation Briefs

FBI urged to probe deaths of black men WASHINGTON – The parents of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, two black men who died in encounters with white police officers, joined with civi...