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Memo justifying drone killings is released NEW YORK – The secret U.S. government memo outlining the justification for the use of drones to kill American terror suspects abroad was...

Militants blitz through western Iraq

Top Shiite cleric, U.S. pushing for inclusive government

Female vets struggling with the VA as well

Women receiving care has more than doubled since 2000

Border Patrol cancels flights

SAN DIEGO – Border Patrol on Sunday canceled flights scheduled to bring nearly 300 Central American migrants from south Texas to California for processing, but the plans could be reinstated,...

Who’s playing games? You’ll be surprised

Video games aren’t what they used to be – and neither are gamers. Over the last decade or so, the stereotypes that followed video games have been smashed like so many objectives i...

Nation & World Briefs

Friends mourn hiker after body recovered SEATTLE – Friends on Sunday mourned a well-known outdoors writer and photographer who had been missing for three days in Mount Rainier Nat...

Vast oil drilling threatens solitude of national park

Area influenced 26th president

Space agency has its eyes on asteroid for mission

WASHINGTON – NASA is zeroing in on the asteroids it wants to capture, haul near the moon and have astronauts visit. Officials on Thursday described a prime candidate: A tiny aster...

Texas gas town considers ban on fracking

DENTON, Texas – Natural gas money has been good to this Texas city: It has new parks, a new golf course and miles of grassy soccer fields. The business district is getting a makeover, and th...

Feline that terrorized family stumps TV host

Saving the cat from euthanasia a personal crusade

Transgender rights advanced without fanfare

In 2007, not enough Democratic votes for congressional ‘trans-inclusive’ bill

What is considered offensive?

‘Redskins’ case forcing us to introspect