Nation &amp; World

The Watergate’s private place in history

But when you work at the Watergate office building – the site for the most infamous “third-rate burglary” in American…

Syrian truce off to a rocky start

Airstrikes hit rebels before cease-fire

U.S. flexes its nuclear muscles

Force tests Minuteman 3 amid worries about Korea

Insurers could hold fate of health plan

of the exchanges having trouble making profit

World Briefs

MOGADISHU, Somalia – A Somali police official says al-Shabab gunmen forced their way into a hotel in the Somali capital,…

Poll: Dem voters worry about impact of PACs

say candidate’s gender is unimportant

Swiss may OK expulsions of criminals

Country to vote on plan that targets foreigners

Graham predicts disaster if Trump is GOP’s nominee

In no-holds-barred remarks at a celebratory dinner Thursday night, the South Carolina senator and unsuccessful presidential candidate said the GOP…

Nation Briefs

HESSTON, Kan. – A man who stormed into a Kansas factory where he worked and shot 14 people, killing three,…

Christie throws support to Trump

keeps up his attacks against GOP front-runner

Obama touts value of his teenage job

President backing summer jobs for teens

Leap forward for women?

Feb. 29 traditions reverse marriage proposal rules

‘Martian’ plant finds new life thanks to Hollywood film

This 2015 photo provided by Bucknell University botanist Chris Martine works with her solanum watneyi plants at the university’s Rooke…

Dogs take Leap Year to new level

Labrador retriever Shayna jumps into the family pool at her owner’s home in Holiday, Fla. Judy Dunn said Shayna prefers…

Sheriff: Cop who killed Kansas gunman a ‘tremendous hero’

FBI agents look at evidence along Hesston Road outside Excel Industries in Hesston, Kan. A deadly assault on Thursday at…

U.S. economy ends 2015 on better note, starts 2016 with a bang

Economists said consumer spending rose 0.5 percent in January, the best showing since May.Lynne Sladky/Associated Press The Commerce Department said…

California methane leak set record, study finds

The 16-week blowout from a well at a Southern California Gas Co. storage facility spewed 107,000 tons of the powerful…

Italy’s Senate approves civil unions for gays

upset bill doesn’t allow adoptions

Cruz, Rubio turn heat up on Trump

Candidates get personal in attacks on front-runner

Nation & World Briefs

SAN FRANCISCO – Google will back Apple in its court battle with the FBI over the security of its iPhone.…

GOP governor drops name from court s

Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval has notified the White House that he is not interested in being nominated to replace Supreme…

SeaWorld acknowledges planting worker in animal rights group

The documentary “Blackfish” suggested that SeaWorld’s treatment of its killer whales at its theme parks spurs violent behavior in the…