Nation &amp; World

Where’s Fidel? Rumors abound

continued absence renews talk of his death

House GOP to target immigration policies

planned to overturn Obama’s actions

World Brief

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – New Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena was sworn into office Friday and vowed to curtail the…

Nation Briefs

WASHINGTON – The Pentagon took initial steps Friday to set up a new agency that will direct the troubled effort…

Pipeline plan clears Nebraska hurdle

high court tosses lawsuit to block Keystone XL project

Fears of wider threat grow

Officials seek answers about terror suspects’ pasts

Archaeologist donates Atari game

Curt Hanson, left, director of University of North Dakota’s Department of Special Collections, holds a sealed bag containing an Atari…

Elvis’ 1st record sells for $300K

Priscilla Presley cuts an eight-tiered birthday cake during the 80th birthday celebration for her late ex-husband Elvis Presley at Graceland,…

December employment gain caps best year for US labor market since 1999

2014 ended on a high note with unemployment continuing to fall and hiring picking up. The U.S. Labor Department reported…

French police kill gunmen in twin attacks, free 16 hostages

Associated Press PARIS – With explosions and gunfire, security forces Friday ended three days of terror around Paris, killing the…

GOP set to challenge Obama’s veto threats

Republicans OK pipeline, limits on Obamacare

U.S. knew about suspects in deadly attack in Paris

A police composite shows Cherif, left, and Said Kouachi, two of the suspects in Wednesday’s attack on a newspaper in…

Many could lose food stamp benefits

Improving economy will hurt many recipients without jobs

Nation & World Briefs

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Thursday proposed making community college free “for everybody who is willing to work for…

Obama pushes homeownership steps in once hard-hit Arizona

President Barack Obama, joined by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro, Thursday speaks outside a home in a housing…

Vermont governor re-elected after failing to win majority

Sen. Mark MacDonald, left, and Rep. Maureen Dakin count ballots during a special election to elect Vermont’s next governor on…

French police detain 9 in massive hunt for 2 suspects

Women light candles to commemorate the victims killed in an attack at the Paris offices of the weekly newspaper Charlie…

Attack highlights clash of cultures

freedom not welcome everywhere

House session gets off to rocky start

Boehner votes divides GOP members

World Briefs

ANJAR, Lebanon – Snow fell in parts of the Middle East on Wednesday as a powerful winter storm swept through…

Nation Briefs

EL PASO, Texas – Federal officials say a man suspected of fatally shooting a doctor and himself at an El…

Much of U.S. shivering from arctic blast

At least the Northeast isn’t getting clobbered with snow the way it was this time last year. A look at…

FBI director confident North Korea was behind cyberattack

James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, tells a group attending Wednesday’s International Conference on Cyber Security at Fordham University…