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Study: Young workers change jobs frequently

WASHINGTON – Young adults born in the early 1980s held an average of just over six jobs each from ages 18 through 26, a Labor Department survey showed Wednesday. Since 1997, the...

Pets suffer from domestic violence

More shelters taking them in

Iranian coffee lovers flock to new cafes

TEHRAN, Iran – Shoulder to shoulder, cheek to cheek, young women and men sit next to each other while a thick film of cigarette smoke fills the dimly lit cafe in central Tehran. Bob Dylan’s ...

Toilet tech fair tackles global sanitation woes

NEW DELHI – Who would have expected a toilet to one day filter water, charge a cellphone or create charcoal to combat climate change? These are lofty ambitions beyond what most of...

Unlikely soda to show up at ballpark

Opening Day will have a surprisingly different pop to it. As in soda pop. The Oakland A’s, a team widely known for thumbing its nose at conventions, will do it again be...

Nation/World Briefs

Community bracing for more victims ARLINGTON, Wash. – A mountainside community waited in anguish Friday to learn the full scope of the Washington state mudslide as authorities wo...

Who’s hooking up with your dating data?

Change may be coming to the rapidly growing dating industry as concern mounts about the privacy and safety of all online and mobile users. Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., introduced leg...

Ousted Ukrainian leader seeks autonomy elections

MOSCOW – Ukraine’s fugitive leader pushed Friday for a vote to determine the status of each of the country’s regions – a call serving the Kremlin’s purpose of turning Ukraine into a loosely ...

Europe unveils Mars rover

STEVENAGE, England It looks like a giant sandbox – except the sand has a reddish tint and the “toys” on display are very expensive prototypes designed to withstand the rigors of landing on ...

Court hands setback to Texas abortion law critics

AUSTIN, Texas – Dr. Lester Minto knows he won’t be able to reopen his clinic after a federal appeals court upheld tough new abortion restrictions in Texas. But he insists he won’t be silence...

Support for overhaul falling

WASHINGTON – Public support for President Barack Obama’s health-care law is languishing at its lowest level since passage of the landmark legislation four years ago, according to a new poll....

Obama meets with Saudi king to reassure key ally

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – President Barack Obama paid a visit Friday to the desert oasis of wary ally King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, hoping to reassure the aging monarch who is nervously watchi...