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Deal reached on calming Ukraine tensions

GENEVA – In a surprise accord, Ukraine and Russia agreed Thursday on tentative steps to halt violence and calm tensions along their shared border after more than a month of Cold War-style mi...

Arrests in Target breach may not happen soon

WASHINGTON – Secret Service investigators say they are close to gaining a full understanding of the methods hackers used to breach Target’s computer systems last December. But the...

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U.S. medical prices at top

Ferry sinking toll may rise

SEOUL, South Korea - Nearly 300 people, most of them students, remained unaccounted for Wednesday as coast guard and navy divers continued to search a ferry that sank hours earlier off the s...

World & Nation Briefs

Insurgents seize Ukrainian vehicles SLOVYANSK, Ukraine – Pro-Russian insurgents commandeered six Ukrainian armored vehicles along with their crews and hoisted Russian flags over ...

Obama stresses need for new job training

OAKDALE, Pa. – Urging the U.S. to keep up in the global skills race, President Barack Obama on Wednesday highlighted $600 million in new job-training grants that he said could help people la...

NATO ups military presence amid Russian threat

BRUSSELS – NATO is strengthening its military footprint along its eastern border immediately in response to Russia’s aggression in Ukraine, the alliance’s chief said Wednesday. Se...

U.S. judge overturns 6-week abortion ban

BISMARCK, N.D. – A federal judge on Wednesday overturned a North Dakota law banning abortions when a fetal heartbeat can be detected, as early as six weeks into pregnancy and before many wom...

Pot may cause changes in brain, study suggests

NEW YORK – A small study of casual marijuana smokers has turned up evidence of changes in the brain, a possible sign of trouble ahead, researchers say. The young adults who volun...

Nation Briefs

Appeals court upholds EPA emission rules WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court Tuesday upheld the Environmental Protection Agency’s first emission standards for mercury and other h...

End of road for highway projects?

DAYTON, Ohio – On the road in a tour bus this week, the U.S. transportation secretary is spreading some bad news: The government’s Highway Trust Fund is nearly broke. If allowed to run dry, ...

Dems take lead in fundraising

WASHINGTON – Deep-pocketed donors are turning over multimillion-dollar checks to influence November’s elections, and the sums raised by the national parties and their super PAC allies are al...