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Dogs pick up directions from human voices

When every call of “Spot, come!” sends your dog running in the opposite direction, it’s easy to be cynical about how well canines listen. But a new study shows dogs and even puppies are capa...

Chicago relishes its hot dogs

CHICAGO – In a city known for its love of both eating and bragging about its hot dogs, this was news nobody relished: Gourmet stand Hot Doug’s, known for serving up options made of rattlesna...

Report faults pipeline oversight

WASHINGTON – The federal agency responsible for making sure states effectively oversee the safety of natural gas and other pipelines is failing to do its job, a government watchdog said in a...

World Briefs

Swiss billionaire to leave Parliament GENEVA – The Swiss billionaire industrialist behind the nation’s recent anti-immigration vote said Friday he is leaving parliament to concent...

Remains of Sept. 11 victims being moved

NEW YORK – Thousands of vacuum-sealed plastic pouches filled with bits of bone rest in a Manhattan laboratory. These are the last unidentified fragments of the people who died in the World T...

Nation Briefs

GOP names members of Benghazi committee WASHINGTON – Despite Democratic complaints, Republicans jumped into a new election-season investigation of the deadly Benghazi assault on F...

Troops going to doctors more than ever, news survey shows

The brutal legacy of a more than a decade of war on the U.S. military is made plain in a study released Thursday showing that, on average, each service member visited a doctor more than once...

Putin hails Crimea’s return

MOSCOW – Putting his personal seal on the annexation of Crimea, President Vladimir Putin of Russia arrived in the naval port of Sevastopol on Friday, where he used the anniversary of the vic...

Pelosi says House Dems divided on Benghazi probe

WASHINGTON – House Democrats stand deeply divided over whether to participate in a Republican-led investigation of the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, with p...

Putin may overshadow planned D-Day events

WASHINGTON – Complicating the West’s efforts to isolate Russia, the Kremlin announced Thursday that Vladimir Putin will join President Barack Obama and European leaders in France next month ...

GOP senators praise nominee’s ‘competence’

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s nominee for health secretary drew support from Republican senators Thursday even as they challenged the health law she would be charged with carrying o...

New investigation to look at Benghazi

WASHINGTON – House Republicans on Thursday rammed through a measure opening a new investigation of the deadly assault in Benghazi, Libya, vowing to dig deeper in a search for truth. Democrat...