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Harlem Hellfighters live on

Museum effort shows post-WWI lives of storied black regiment

December 6, 2014

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Macaws take flight in Caracas

Wild parrots offer respite from Venezuela capital’s crime, pollution

December 6, 2014

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Time to let your freak-food flag fly

Cinnamon crickets are ‘in,’ and they just might save the Rust Belt

December 6, 2014

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U.S. to keep more troops in Afghanistan

Counterterrorism to continue

December 6, 2014

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IS ‘caliphate’ gains momentum in Jordan

Government neglect stokes protests

December 6, 2014

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Nation Briefs

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – An SUV involved in the death of a Missouri teenager outside a Somali community center had…

December 6, 2014

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World Briefs

HONG KONG – A prominent teenage leader of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests ended his hunger strike Saturday after 4½ days…

December 6, 2014

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Another typhoon ‘smashes’ Philippines

Hagupit second storm to hit in two years

December 6, 2014

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Job market is partying like its 1999

Unemployed finding work at a pace unprecedented post-Great Recession

December 6, 2014

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400 killed annually by police

There’s reason officers rarely are indicted by grand juries

December 6, 2014

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Colorado farmers want help with foreign-born workers

If anything, it seems the actions might have muddied already less-than-clear waters, according to the Colorado Farm Bureau. “When you…

December 5, 2014

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NYC police feel ‘all alone’

Officers: Public outcry ignores Garner’s role in death

December 5, 2014

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Rolling Stone backing off gang-rape story

University of Virginia students walk to campus past the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house at the University of Virginia in…

December 5, 2014

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Cities bid for Obama library

4 universities seek to house planned center

December 5, 2014

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Nation & World Briefs

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA’s new Orion spacecraft made a “bull’s-eye” Pacific splashdown Friday following a dramatic flight 3,604 miles…

December 5, 2014

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NASA’s Orion lands with ‘bullseye’ splashdown

NASA’s Orion spacecraft lifts off from a launch pad at Cape Canaveral AIr Force Station in Florida. The new spacecraft…

December 5, 2014

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Obama taps Pentagon veteran Carter to lead DOD

President Barack Obama said on Friday his nominee to head the Defense Department, Ashton Carter, will need to make “smart…

December 5, 2014

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House rebukes Obama on immigration

House Speaker John Boehner is planning to move forward with his plans to pass a spending bill that will keep…

December 4, 2014

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40 people rescued from flash flood in California

RANDALL BENTON/Sacramento Bee<br><br>Water and leaves accumulate along Stockton Boulevard near Alhambra in Sacramento, Calif. on Wednesday. Rain caused some minor…

December 4, 2014

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Bird’s fate shaping energy development in the West

Research at the biggest wind farm project being developed in the U.S. right now seeks to help the chicken-sized Gunnison…

December 4, 2014

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New violence in Chechnya leaves at least 20 dead

Smoke rises from the burned out market pavilion next to a publishing house in the center of Grozny, Russia, on…

December 3, 2014

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Nation & World Briefs

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Wind gusts and sluggish fuel valves conspired to keep NASA’s new Orion spacecraft on the launch…

December 3, 2014

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Ex-police chief charged in death of black man

The indictment of Richard Combs, the former chief and sole officer in the small town of Eutawville, was released Thursday.…

December 3, 2014

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Lethal-force cases hard to prosecute

Court ruling makes it difficult to second-guess police actions

December 3, 2014