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STOCKHOLM – An invention that promises to revolutionize the way the world lights its homes and offices – and already…

October 7, 2014

Europe scrambles to reduce threat from Ebola

Spanish and foreign media are camped outside the hospital where Spanish authorities have quarantined the husband of a nursing assistant…

October 7, 2014

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Where liveability really heads South

Region ranks below average in many areas

October 7, 2014

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2 more state gay-marriage bans fall

Weddings could begin in Nevada, Idaho by today

October 7, 2014

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Nation & World Briefs

NEW YORK – U.S. Sen. Bob Casey says it would be “very healthy” for the United States if members of…

October 6, 2014

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New concern worldwide as Spanish nurse gets Ebola

Ashoka Mukpo is loaded into an ambulance on Monday after arriving in Omaha, Neb. Mukpo, an American video journalist who…

October 6, 2014

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Islamic State wages assault on Syrian border town

Hours after the militants raised two of their Islamic State group’s black flags on the outskirts of Kobani, the militants…

October 6, 2014

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Spanish nurse in Madrid diagnosed with Ebola

Spain’s Health Minister Ana Mato walks past members of the media as she leaves a news conference about the first…

October 6, 2014

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3 win medicine Nobel for discovering brain’s GPS

A composite picture, from left, of John O’Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser, who were awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize…

October 6, 2014

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High court denies gay marriage appeals

Pro-life advocates hold a prayer vigil on the plaza of the high court in Washington. The group, Bound 4 Life,…

October 6, 2014

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Media goes overtime on Ebola coverage, but not necessarily overboard

Ebola? Well, yes, but another bug has had far more wide-ranging consequences. Since an outbreak began in late summer, the…

October 5, 2014

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State-by-state look at gay marriage bans

The court’s decision effectively made gay marriage legal in 30 states and the District of Columbia. The Supreme Court refused…

October 5, 2014

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Analysis: Supreme Court ruling means battle ‘effectively over’

Kody Partridge and Derek Kitchen, two of the six people who brought the lawsuit against the Utah’s gay-marriage ban, speak…

October 5, 2014

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DALLAS – A homeless man being sought because of possible contact with the lone U.S. Ebola patient was found Sunday…

October 5, 2014

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Americans are worried: Can government protect us?

With Election Day about a month away, more than half those in the survey said Washington can do little to…

October 5, 2014

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Hong Kong heads back to work as protests thin

A student pro-democracy protester monitors the news on her smartphone as she and others sit outside Hong Kong’s Chief Executive…

October 5, 2014

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Study points at monarchs’ origin

Butterflies from N. America

October 4, 2014

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Tobacco growers brace for competition

Farm workers, from left, Carlos Sanchez, Francisco Zuniga, and Alejandro Zuniga, pick tobacco leaves on Chris Haskins’ farm in Chatham,…

October 4, 2014

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Many stepping up to keep planes aloft

Effects of fire at O’Hare still being felt

October 4, 2014

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Ebola patient came to U.S. to marry girlfriend, start new life

Hazardous material cleaners prepare to hang black plastic outside the apartment in Dallas, Friday, Oct. 3, 2014, where Thomas Eric…

October 4, 2014

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Nation Briefs

INDIANAPOLIS – The parents of an Indiana man threatened with beheading by the Islamic State group are pleading with his…

October 4, 2014

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Ebola comes across 3 continents

Liberian sufferer may face charges

October 4, 2014

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Dallas Ebola patient critical

Duncan Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, where Thomas Eric Duncan is being treated, didn’t provide any further details about his…

October 4, 2014

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U.S.: Militants use beheadings to make up for losses

The tide began to turn in mid-August, when U.S. airstrikes pushed them from key Iraqi battlegrounds. Then, on Aug. 19,…

October 4, 2014