Obama says Russia responsible for Ukraine violence

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is blaming Russia for the escalating violence in eastern Ukraine. Obama is speaking at the White House amid escalating tensions between Russia ...

WHO: Ebola outbreak in Africa could grow worse

GENEVA – The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is accelerating and could grow six times larger to infect as many as 20,000 people, the World Health Organization said Thursday. The U.N. health ag...

Ukraine fighting intensifies

West accuses Russia of lying, says its troops are in country

Nation Briefs

BLM to issue drilling leases in California SAN FRANCISCO – The U.S. Bureau of Land Management will resume issuing oil and gas leases next year for federal lands in California afte...

World Briefs

Europe offering to help keep peace in Gaza JERUSALEM – European nations are offering to help enforce the cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, a scenario that could provide key internatio...

Obama: No ‘strategy yet’ on Islamic State

President suggests he’s not ready to approve airstrikes inside Syria

U.S. raises economic growth rate for second quarter

WASHINGTON – After a bleak start to the year, the U.S. economy grew at a brisk annual rate of 4.2 percent in the April-June quarter, the government said Thursday, slightly faster than it had...

Looking for America? Try Nashville

Website says Tennessee city most resembles U.S.’s demographics

Shooting by 9-year-old stirs debate over guns

Girl shot man by accident; no charges being filed

Nation & World Briefs

Perry says GOP needs to retake Congress COLUMBIA, S.C. – Texas Gov. Rick Perry told South Carolina Republicans on Wednesday that it’s important for the GOP to control Congress so ...

Israeli premier, Hamas declare victory in Gaza

JERUSALEM – Both Israel’s prime minister and Hamas declared victory Wednesday in the Gaza war, though their competing claims left questions over future terms of their uneasy peace still ling...

Obama set to take immigration steps

White House readies legal arguments