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Nation Briefs

Doctors paid billions by industry, U.S. says WASHINGTON – From research grants to travel junkets, drug and medical device companies paid doctors and leading hospitals billions of...

Road salt in short supply

States struggling to replenish stocks as winter nears

Weather forecasts get more local

WASHINGTON – The next time some nasty storms are heading your way, the National Weather Service says it will have a better forecast of just how close they could come to you. The w...

Experts downplay Ebola diagnosis

Patient brought disease from West Africa

Congress grills Secret Service

Another security lapse comes to light

California becomes first state to ban plastic bags

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday signed the nation’s first statewide ban on single-use plastic bags at grocery and convenience stores, driven to action by pollution in street...

Cost of U.S. campaign against the Islamic State closing in on $1B

WASHINGTON – The United States has likely spent between $780 million and $930 million in its military campaign against the Islamic State militant group so far, and it will likely cost betwee...

Nation & World Briefs

White House intruder gets farther than described WASHINGTON – The intruder who climbed a fence made it farther inside the White House than the Secret Service has publicly acknowle...

Netanyahu: Hamas, Islamic State share creed

UNITED NATIONS – In a blistering speech to the United Nations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Monday that Hamas and the Islamic State group are “branches of the same poi...

Effort to oust Assad loses priority

Obama says strikes more important

Colo. could see $175M in pot revenue

If a pair of new government forecasts prove true, Washington and Colorado would see more than $800 million in extra revenue over the next few years thanks to marijuana sales. At the least. ...

Reports: White House intruder gets far past front door

WASHINGTON – The intruder who climbed a fence made it farther inside the White House than the Secret Service has publicly acknowledged, the Washington Post and New York Times newspapers repo...