Land agency: Agent’s gun may have been used in pier slaying
By PAUL ELIAS The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is investigating whether an agent’s gun was used in the shooting death of a woman walking on a popular San Francisco…
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Hispanic leaders want GOP field to condemn Trump’s ‘idiocy’
By STEVE PEOPLES Hispanic leaders are bristling at the largely tepid response by Republican presidential candidates to Donald Trump’s characterization of Mexican immigrants as rapists and drug dealers. Several 2016…
BP to pay record $18.7 billion to states affected by spill
By KEVIN McGILL, REBECCA SANTANA and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN More than five years after the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history fouled beaches, coated seabirds in thick goo and threatened…
Many but not all in GOP object as US, Cuba plan embassies
By ALAN FRAM Loud but hardly universal catcalls from Republicans underscored the obstacles and opportunities ahead as U.S. and Cuban leaders announced an opening of embassies in Havana and Washington…
Trade bill clears Senate hurdle, at brink of final passage
By CHARLES BABINGTON The Senate pushed bipartisan trade legislation to the brink of final approval Tuesday in a combined effort by President Barack Obama and Republican congressional leaders to rescue…
Searchers find body of missing ex-White House chef
Searchers have found the body of a former White House chef who had been missing for more than a week after going hiking in the New Mexico mountains, authorities said.…
Jesse Jackson Jr. released from halfway house in Baltimore
By SOPHIA TAREEN Former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. was reunited with family members in Washington D.C. on Monday after leaving a halfway house where he’d been living since his…
Carter: US to provide weapons, aircraft, commandos for NATO By LOLITA C. BALDOR Jun. 22, 2
By LOLITA C. BALDOR The U.S. will contribute weapons, aircraft and forces, including commandos, for NATO’s rapid reaction force, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Monday, to help Europe defend against…