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Kansas GOP Sen. Roberts defeats tea partyer

WASHINGTON – Three-term Republican Sen. Pat Roberts edged out Milton Wolf in Kansas’ primary Tuesday night as mainstream conservatives dealt another blow to the tea party movement. A GOP bus...

1 billion passwords may not be safe

Firm says gang breached 420,000 websites

Obama seeks to do business with Africa

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama pledged $33 billion in U.S. private and public assistance to Africa on Tuesday, although he said most of the improvements must come from Africa itself. ...

Nation Briefs

Obama looking to stop business tax inversions WASHINGTON – Aiming to sidestep a logjam in Congress, the Obama administration is looking for steps it could take on its own to preve...

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Rivals try to sway voters on Scotland election LONDON – Scotland’s leading politician clashed with Britain’s former treasury chief Tuesday in a televised debate meant to sway unde...

Poll: States’ acceptance of law affecting outcome

Uninsured levels impacted by leaders’ stance

Israel-Hamas truce sets stage for talks on Gaza

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Israel said it withdrew the last of its ground forces from Gaza on Tuesday as it and Hamas began a temporary cease-fire. The calm sets the stage for talks in Egypt on...

2nd American aid worker with Ebola arrives in U.S.

ATLANTA – The husband of the second American aid worker recently diagnosed with Ebola says the patient is weak but showing signs of improvement. The president of the aid group SIM...

Afghani insider kills U.S. general

KABUL, Afghanistan – An American major general was shot to death Tuesday in one of the bloodiest insider attacks of the long Afghanistan war when a gunman dressed as an Afghan soldier turned...

Former White House press secretary Jim Brady dies

WASHINGTON – James Brady, the affable, witty press secretary who survived a devastating head wound in the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan and undertook a personal crusa...

Africa traveler now in hospital

‘Odds are, this is not Ebola,’ doctor says

Cease-fire slows Gaza war as Israeli bus attacked

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – An Israeli-declared temporary cease-fire and troop withdrawals slowed violence in the Gaza war Monday, though an attack on an Israeli bus that killed one person in Je...