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Millennials stepping up shift to walkable cities

Urban hipsters, you may not know it yet, but you’re living in a WalkUP. Your apartment building may have an elevator, but chances are good that if you’re a Millennial in a major U...

Lawmakers say more IRS emails missing

WASHINGTON – The Internal Revenue Service has lost more emails connected to the tea party investigation, congressional investigators said Tuesday. The IRS said last Friday it had ...

Fight for gay rights not over yet, president says

NEW YORK – To a raucous embrace, President Barack Obama told gay donors Tuesday that American society and its laws have advanced the cause of gay rights over the past 10 years but said the j...

Somali extremists attack village

NAIROBI, Kenya – The killers in the Kenyan village singled out non-Muslims, shooting them point-blank or slitting their throats, just like the previous night in an adjacent hamlet. A Somali ...

Iraqi army rout hampers efforts to rally

BAGHDAD – The Iraqi soldiers tell of how they can hardly live with the shame of their rout under the onslaught of the Islamic militants. Their commanders disappeared. Pleas for more ammuniti...

World Briefs

Ebola virus linked to deaths in Liberia MONROVIA, Liberia – Seven people believed to have the Ebola virus have died in recent days in the first deaths reported in the Liberian cap...

Amazon is about to jump into smartphones

NEW YORK – Amazon, a company of seemingly boundless ambition, appears to be venturing into yet another market: smartphones. The corporate juggernaut that started out with books an...

Benghazi suspect on way to U.S. for trial

WASHINGTON – U.S. special forces seized a “key leader” of the deadly Benghazi, Libya, attack and he is on his way to face trial in the U.S. for the fiery assault that killed the U.S. ambassa...

U.S. health care is dead last in 11-nation survey

But America expected to improve under Obamacare

Feds protect sage grouse

Decision to list bird’s relative is due next year

Court: $1.8M house built on park must be removed

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A developer who mistakenly built a $1.8 million waterfront house on park land has been ordered to remove it. The Rhode Island Supreme Court found that the unocc...

High court rules against ‘straw purchasers’ of guns

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court dealt a rare blow to the gun lobby Monday by ruling that purchasers must report when they are buying firearms for other people. The 5-4 decision uph...