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SANAA, Yemen – Yemeni military officials say the Saudi-led coalition has airdropped weapons to fighters battling Shiite rebels in the…

Health plan’s economic benefits touted

aide says healthier workers more productive

Supporters vow to continue religious fight

Religious-freedom law supporters are vowing to press ahead with support for laws to protect religious objectors even after Arkansas Gov.…

Nation Briefs

SEATTLE – Finally cleared of involvement in her roommate’s 2007 murder in Italy, Amanda Knox says she will work on…

GOP plans to seek vote on Iran deal

says issues ‘here are bigger than politics’

U.S. employers added just 126K jobs in March

Frances Scoggins, left, discusses her resume with Michael McCall, general manager for Chattanooga Labeling Systems, during a job fair in…

Clinton, Bush capture early – but weak – leads

At this early stage in the 2016 competition, the prospective candidates suffer from image weaknesses, but the Republicans have a…

World & Nation Briefs

BERLIN – Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz spent time online researching suicide methods and cockpit door security in the week before…

Plane crash co-pilot eyed suicide methods, cockpit security

Mountain troops and police listen during a briefing before heading to the crash site of a Germanwings plane near Seyne-les-Alpes,…

World leaders hail nuclear agreement

says deal based on ‘verification’

Obama support fading

Approval rating down slightly since January

Nation & World Briefs

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Wednesday authorized a new U.S. government approach to deterring cyberattacks: financial sanctions against malicious…

Extending talks poses its own risks

Obama’s legacy on the line without deal

Arkansas Senate takes up religion bill at governor’s request

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, center, says he doesn’t believe a religious-rights law that was passed by the Legislature is intended…

Iran nuke talks stumble a day after missing deal deadline

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, right, over Iran’s nuclear program…

California tightens water restrictions

Standing in dry, brown grass at a site that he said normally would be snow-covered this time of year, Brown…

State Department found 4 emails about drones sent by Clinton

Then-U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton hands off her mobile phone after arriving to meet with Dutch Foreign Minister…

Support for Palestinian state hits two-decade low in U.S.

Pro-Palestine demonstrators wearing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu masks and symbolic “blood stained hands” protest at the Washington Convention Center.…

Airline says it knew of co-pilot’s depression

Two publications are reporting investigators have found a video where the screams of passengers aboard a Germanwings flight can be…

Nation & World Briefs

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Tuesday vetoed a measure passed by the Republican-run Congress blocking the National Labor Relations…

U.S. vows to slash greenhouse gases

says plan won’t ‘see light of day’

At 69, physicist has no time for doubts

Scientist still hopes to build machine to travel to past

Scientists find ‘paint’ that colors Mercury

explain why planet is so dark