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Tropical Storm Iselle makes landfall on Hawaii

HONOLULU – The first storm in a one-two punch heading for Hawaii clamored ashore overnight Friday as a weakened tropical storm, while a second system close behind it strengthened and was on ...

DATE: Aug 8, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Airstrikes undertaken as U.S. re-engages in Iraq

WASHINGTON – U.S. fighters dropped bombs on Islamic militants in Iraq Friday, the Pentagon said, carrying out President Barack Obama’s promise of military force to counter the advancing mili...

DATE: Aug 8, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Russians may pay price for ban

Action will raise food prices

DATE: Aug 7, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. to airdrop aid to minorities in Iraq

Religious groups under siege by Islamists

DATE: Aug 7, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Remains of Jonestown victims discovered

DOVER, Del. – More than 35 years after the infamous suicide-murder of some 900 people – many forced to drink a cyanide-laced grape punch – in Jonestown, Guyana, the cremated remains of nine ...

DATE: Aug 7, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World Briefs

Kerry pushes for deal on Afghan election KABUL, Afghanistan – The Obama administration on Thursday stepped up efforts to press Afghanistan’s two feuding presidential candidates to...

DATE: Aug 7, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Flow of child immigrants slows along Texas border

McALLEN, Texas – Fewer unaccompanied immigrant children are crossing the Texas-Mexico border, allowing the federal government to close the temporary shelters that it hurriedly opened to hand...

DATE: Aug 7, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Experts downplay risk to airliners from missiles

High-altitude SAMs too expensive for most terrorists

DATE: Aug 7, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Brief

Oregon wildfire victims begin returning home GRANTS PASS, Ore. – Some residents of the 275 homes evacuated in the path of a wind-driven wildfire in Oregon’s Columbia Gorge have b...

DATE: Aug 7, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Africans unlikely to get Ebola drug soon

MONROVIA, Liberia – Africans seeking a drug to help contain the Ebola virus will have to wait months before a potentially life-saving experimental treatment used on two infected Americans is...

DATE: Aug 7, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

New VA law to help some veterans quickly

Obama signs bill to fix health-care system into law

DATE: Aug 7, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

CDC director: Scale of Ebola crisis unprecedented

WASHINGTON – A U.S. health official warns that the current Ebola crisis in West Africa is on pace to sicken more people than all other previous outbreaks of the disease combined. ...

DATE: Aug 7, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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