Nation &amp; World

Clinton cruises to big win over Sanders in South Carolina

Sanders already focused on Super Tuesday

Nation & World Briefs

KABUL, Afghanistan – Suicide bombers targeted an anti-Taliban tribal leader in eastern Afghanistan and the Defense Ministry compound in the…

Warren Buffett makes case for a bright American future

Billionaire optimistic in annual letter to shareholders

TRUMP under attack

Cruz, Rubio escalate case against front-runner as Super Tuesday looms

Top Apple executive defends resistance in FBI iPhone case

Apple CEO Tim Cook received a standing ovation Friday at a stockholder meeting for resisting a request by the FBI…

Environmentalists seek to protect sage grouse

Loopholes riddle conservation plan, they say

BLM to cap pipes used to stake mining claims

Tubes kill 100,000 animals annually

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

Air Force tests Minuteman 3 amid worries about Korea

Insurers could hold fate of health plan

Many 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

Most 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

Rubio 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?

Many 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…