Dem forms committee
WASHINGTON — Former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb launched an exploratory committee to consider a Democratic presidential campaign in 2016, taking the first ...
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis is seeking to reassure the church’s right-wing base that he’s not a renegade bent on changing church doctrine on family issues — weeks after ...
Phone surveillance spurred concerns
WASHINGTON — Dissenters within the National Security Agency, led by a senior agency executive, warned in 2009 that the program to secr...
Study looks at jobs, IQs
Once again, there’s proof that using your noggin to work hard pays handsome dividends — this time, in protecting brainpower as you age. And once ...
His address is tonight
WASHINGTON — As broadly as President Barack Obama may push the limits of his authority to shield from deportation millions of immigrants illegally ...
CHICAGO — Blase Cupich became the archbishop of Chicago on Tuesday after his predecessor handed him a bishop’s staff and relinquished the chair that symbolizes the leade...
DETROIT — President Obama is nominating a transportation safety and human fatigue expert to revive the troubled agency charged with keeping the nation’s highways safe.
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Students hurt at university
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida State University police fatally shot a gunman at the campus library early today in a shooting that left three stud...
WESTMINSTER, Mass. — A proposal that would have made the town the first in the nation to ban all tobacco sales has gone up in smoke.
Westminster’s board of health voted ...
Giving thanks will be a little costlier this year, but — and here’s something you can be truly thankful for — it probably won’t empty your wallet.
The price for putting ...
