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Somali police, intelligence chiefs fired after deadly attack

MOGADISHU, Somalia – Security forces ended an overnight siege by militants Sunday at a hotel in Somalia’s capital after a bombing and shootout that killed 23 people, and the government fired...

DATE: Oct 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Puerto Rico utility moves to scrap $300M Whitefish contract

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The head of Puerto Rico’s power company said Sunday the agency is canceling its $300 million contract with Whitefish Energy Holdings amid scrutiny of the tiny Montana...

DATE: Oct 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Science says: Jack Frost nipping at your nose ever later

Changing freeze cycles signal climate change, with good and bad consequences

DATE: Oct 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nursing homes struggled with choice to evacuate in hurricane

DALLAS – Murky water started seeping into a Port Arthur, Texas, nursing home four days after administrators decided to shelter in place. Volunteers – one even brandishing a gun – demanded re...

DATE: Oct 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Pro-independence Catalans: ‘I’ve never felt Spanish’

GIRONA, Spain – To sense the conflicting currents of identity that have led Spain to the edge of a constitutional cliff, look no farther than Girona, some 60 miles northeast of Barcelona. Ma...

DATE: Oct 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Full recovery from California wildfires may take years

SANTA ROSA, Calif. – It will take at least months and likely years to fully recover from devastating wildfires that ripped through Northern California earlier this month, destroying at least...

DATE: Oct 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Collins: Clinton camp needs to fully explain dossier payment

WASHINGTON – A Senate Intelligence Committee member says Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman and the former Democratic Party head need to explain what they knew about a dossier of allegation...

DATE: Oct 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Confusion coming with California’s legal marijuana

LOS ANGELES – Ready or not, California kicks off recreational marijuana sales on Jan. 1. And, mostly, it’s not. Los Angeles and San Francisco are among many cities still strugglin...

DATE: Oct 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Doctors prepare for deep dive into Las Vegas shooter’s brain

LAS VEGAS – Scientists are preparing to do a microscopic study of the Las Vegas gunman’s brain, but whatever they find, if anything, likely won’t be what led him to kill 58 people in the wor...

DATE: Oct 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump comes ahead with fresh criticism of Russia inquiry

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump expressed renewed frustration Sunday over the investigations into alleged ties between his campaign associates and Russian government officials, saying on...

DATE: Oct 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

JFK files release leaves real-life whodunit unsettled

WASHINGTON – Botulism pills. Conspiracy theories. What the government might have known and still won’t say about Lee Harvey Oswald. The release of thousands of records relating to...

DATE: Oct 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Power of anti-Trump resistance in question in Virginia race

RICHMOND, Va. – Virginia’s gubernatorial election stands as a test for the anti-Donald Trump resistance, and whether it can energize voters and donors for the less glamorous races featuring ...

DATE: Oct 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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