Czech: EU, Turkey reach breakthrough deal on migrant crisis
By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS The European Union and Turkey have reached a landmark deal to ease the migrant crisis and give Ankara concessions on better EU relations, The Czech prime minister…
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Germanwings crash: New rules needed for pilot health issues
By ANGELA CHARLTON and GEIR MOULSON Aviation agencies around the world should draw up new rules requiring medical workers to warn authorities when a pilot’s mental health could threaten public…
GOP-led Congress unlikely to OK Obama’s new clean energy bid
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Saturday that he will ask the Republican-led Congress to double spending on research and development into clean energy by 2020.…
Republican Jeb Bush tells rival Marco Rubio ‘stop whining’
The Latest on the 2016 race for president on the final weekend of campaigning before Monday’s leadoff Iowa caucuses (all local times): 4:25 p.m. Jeb Bush is showing no sign…
Arrests of Oregon standoff leaders leaves 1 person dead
By KEITH RIDLER Federal and state law officers arrested the leaders of an armed group occupying a national wildlife refuge, during a traffic stop along a highway in Oregon’s frozen…
Attorney General defends executive actions on guns as legal
By ALAN FRAM Attorney General Loretta Lynch defended President Barack Obama’s executive actions curbing guns, telling lawmakers Wednesday that the president took lawful, common-sense steps to stem firearms violence that…
Choking on smog, Rome and Milan issue no-car day edicts
Rome and Milan have ordered no-car days next week to combat pollution, which has hit unhealthy levels for weeks mainly because no rain has fallen to wash away the smog.…
AP Investigation: US power grid vulnerable to foreign hacks
By GARANCE BURKE and JONATHAN FAHEY Security researcher Brian Wallace was on the trail of hackers who had snatched a California university’s housing files when he stumbled into a larger…