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Walker’s campaign tries to clarify border comment

An aide for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Monday said the Republican presidential candidate isn’t suggesting that there should be…

Nation Briefs

OLATHE, Kan. – The man who admitted killing three people at two suburban Kansas City Jewish sites gave jurors a…

Legal experts: Clinton isn’t in trouble

evidence she knew any emails were classified

Thai police seeking 2 suspects

Thai police found bomb-making materials, including gunpowder, digital clocks and remote-control car parts, inside an apartment that was raided this…

Obama begins Alaska visit

During his three-day tour of Alaska, Obama planned to hike a glacier, converse with fishermen and tape a reality TV…

Global warming carving changes into Alaska in fire and ice

Obama leaves Monday for a three-day visit to the 49th state in which he will speak at a State Department…

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HOUSTON – The man charged with capital murder in the fatal shooting of a uniformed suburban Houston sheriff’s deputy had…

Oregon hemp farmer says startup going slow

Volunteers harvest hemp at a farm in Springfield, Colo., during the first known harvest of industrial hemp in the U.S.…

World Briefs

ABUJA, Nigeria – Nigeria’s Islamic extremist rebels Boko Haram are trying to extend their violent campaign across the country including…

Migrants seek EU’s field of dreams

Hungary’s hostility to immigrants fails to dissuade the desperate

As Common Core results trickle in, initial goals unfulfilled

Full or preliminary scores have been released for Connecticut, Idaho, Missouri, Oregon, Vermont, Washington and West Virginia. They all participated…

Pending home-sales index rebounds in July

Real estate officials say improving pay – and a tightening rental market – are helping Americans’ confidence in making big…

Nation Briefs

HOUSTON – Prosecutors on Saturday charged a 30-year-old man with capital murder in the killing of a sheriff’s deputy who…

World Briefs

BANGKOK – Thai authorities arrested a foreign man Saturday they said had been holed up in a suburban apartment with…

Fed Reserve keeps open possibility of Sept. hike

Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer said Friday that incoming economic data and market developments will likely determine whether the…

China, India pacing U.S. immigration data

Bureau says Mexicans still dominate overall numbers

Tropical Storm Erika destroys Caribbean island of Dominica

Rose Dormice on Saturday in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, inspects her bedroom where the roof collapsed during high winds and heavy rains…

All across the Gulf, remembering Katrina

Residents mark 10th anniversary of hurricane

U.S. appeals court lets NSA program continue

The National Security Agency is continuing to collect telephone data on millions of Americans while the program is being switched…

Survey: Generation LOL most irked by grammar, spelling slips

The site found in an online Harris Poll done July 31 to Aug. 4 that 80 percent of American adults…

Nation Briefs

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Friday compared tensions between the U.S. and Israel over the Iranian nuclear deal to…

EPA moves forward with water rules

hope to block new regulation from taking effect in more states

Despite volatility, on-air rampage difficult to predict

Experts say it is difficult to determine in advance whether someone such as Vester Lee Flanagan II, who killed WDBJ…