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WASHINGTON – Global warming will eventually push 1 out of every 13 species on Earth into extinction, a new study…

Study: Global warming to push 1 in 13 species to extinction

A new study in the journal Science projects that 1 in 13 species will go extinct because of global warming.…

Baltimore police hand report on Gray death to prosecutor

Baltimore Police Department Commissioner Anthony Batts announces that the department’s investigation into the death of Freddie Gray was turned over…

Nation Briefs

WASHINGTON – A charity affiliated with the Clinton Foundation failed to reveal the identities of its 1,100 donors, creating a…

April 29, 2015

Baltimore investigates deadly police incident

Prisoner: Freddie Gray was ‘banging against the walls’

April 29, 2015

Aid begins arriving in Nepal’s villages

An injured victim of Saturday’s earthquake, evacuated by the Nepalese army, is carried down from a helicopter Wednesday in Kathmandu,…

April 29, 2015

Nuanced views on gay rights, religious liberty

The survey uncovered nuanced views on gay rights as the Supreme Court considers, in a case heard this week, whether…

Nation Briefs

WASHINGTON – The National Football League announced Wednesday it would cede its status as a tax-exempt entity. Every so often,…

Supreme Court appears divided

Same-sex marriage faces unknown future

World Briefs

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Saudi Arabia on Tuesday announced the arrest of 93 suspects with ties to the Islamic State…

Villagers wait at earthquake epicenter

Jagot Kumari Rana, 79, is led through the rubble of collapsed homes by her grandson Sogat Rana, 7, in Paslang…

National Guard called in to keep the peace in Baltimore

Maryland National Guardsmen patrol near downtown businesses in Baltimore on Tuesday, a day after looting and arson erupted following the…

Tuesday is the day: Gay-marriage arguments to be heard by Supreme Court

Justices to address issue explicitly left open from 2013 decision

Nation Briefs

BOSTON – Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s lawyers urged a jury Monday to spare his life, portraying him as “a…

Study blames global warming for 75 percent of very hot days

Children play under the water that they manage to spill over from a water tank, to cool off from the…

Western drought steals clean energy

California forced to raise rates

Nepal quake toll tops 4,000

Villages plead for aid, some are inaccessible

World Briefs

UNITED NATIONS – A U.N. inquiry has found that at least 44 Palestinians were killed and at least 227 injured…

Clinton Foundation admits missteps

Nonprofit expects to refile some tax forms

Nepal earthquake aftershocks terrify survivors

Family members grieve during the cremation of an earthquake victim in Bhaktapur near Kathmandu, Nepal, on Sunday. A magnitude 7.8…

Nation & World Briefs

DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. – Coast Guard crews searched for five people missing Sunday after recovering two bodies following a powerful…

Scientists convinced of tie between earthquakes and drilling

So far, the quakes have been mostly small and have done little damage beyond cracking plaster, toppling bricks and rattling…