Nation &amp; World

Date night or moms’ night off? Planning for ‘Fifty’

Faith-based abstinence film debuts as well

Ukraine pushes for cease-fire

President presses Kiev’s case for defensive arms

Nigerian troops to fight Boko Haram

Neighbors will also send help

Brian Williams taking himself off air temporarily

Williams In a memo Saturday to NBC News staff that was released by the network, the anchorman said that as…

With job gains, U.S. recovery rolling

The jobs report Friday signaled raises have finally begun to flow through the economy. Carmaker Ford announced as many as…

Obama: ‘Hard choices’ needed on security

National Security Adviser Susan Rice Friday met with Brookings Institution officials to outline arrives President Barack Obama’s strategy for protecting…

Nation Briefs

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The federal government is making available up to $50 million in drought relief funds for Western states,…

Outrage growing against pilot death

clerics unified in condemning action

Latest hacking case exposes gap

insurers don’t need to encrypt patient data

Shiite rebels take over government in Yemen

Houthi Shiite Yemenis celebrate in Sanaa, Yemen, earlier this week. The rebel group completed its takeover of the country Friday…

World Briefs

BEIRUT – A statement attributed to Islamic State extremists claimed that an American woman held hostage by the group was…

Benghazi panel to query top officials

House Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., left, confers with Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md. at the start…

U.S. gains strong 257K jobs, pay jumps; jobless rate 5.7 percent

Job applicant Rafael Ferrer, 49, left, on Friday shakes hands with a representative of the Hilton Bentley Miami Beach hotel…

Some Japanese see slain hostages, Abe as troublemakers

Relatives of three Japanese hostages being held in Iraq bow before reporters in Tokyo. When the young Japanese anti-war activists…

Cyber crooks turn to health care

hacking could affect ‘tens of millions’

Democrats attack GOP health-care plan

“It effectively raises taxes on the middle class, removes bedrock protections for consumers and chips away at key coverage benefits…

Nation & World Briefs

NEW YORK – A diminished RadioShack will live on, but its future may lie with Sprint. Struggling consumer electronics chain…

Jordan launches new airstrikes after vowing harsh war on IS

Jordanian Air Force fighter jets fly over the funeral of slain Jordanian pilot Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh at his home village…

France takes aim at drone threat

Companies asked to develop systems to intercept aircraft

GOP group to unveil health-care proposal

would offer tax credits to buy insurance

Pilot’s slaying sparks rage in Mideast

Clerics call burning of prisoner ‘foreign’ to Islam

World Briefs

CAIRO – An Egyptian court sentenced 230 people, including one of the leading activists behind the country’s 2011 uprising, to…

Nation Briefs

WASHINGTON – Republicans and Democrats pressed senior Obama administration officials Wednesday to move swiftly to provide aircraft parts, night-vision equipment…