Israel-Hamas truce over after attacks

JERUSALEM (AP) — A three-day-old truce collapsed Friday in a new round of violence after Gaza militants resumed rocket attacks on Israel, drawing a wave of retaliatory airstrikes that killed at least five Palestini…

Ebola outbreak officially a public health emergency

LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization urged nations worldwide to donate money and resources to stop the spread of Ebola as it declared the outbreak in West Africa to be an international public health emergenc…

Reagan aide Brady's death ruled a homicide from 1981 shooting

WASHINGTON (AP) — This week’s death of former White House press secretary James Brady, who survived a gunshot wound to the head in a 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan, has been ruled a homicide …

U.S. bombs militants in Iraq

IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — The U.S. unleashed its first airstrikes in northern Iraq against militants of the Islamic State group Friday amid a worsening humanitarian crisis. The extremists took captive hundreds of women fr…

GM issues six more recalls covering 312,000 vehicles

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors on Friday issued six more recalls totaling more than 312,000 vehicles as the company cleans up past safety issues.

Russia retaliates over sanctions

Sunni militants seize Iraq's largest dam

BAGHDAD (AP) — Sunni militants from the Islamic State group seized Iraq’s largest hydroelectric dam on Thursday, giving them control of enormous power and water resources and leverage over the Tigris River that run…

Oil boom, housing bust alter spending

WASHINGTON — North Dakotans, enriched by an oil boom, stepped up their spending at triple the national pace in the three years that followed the Great Recession. In Nevada, smacked hard by the housing bust, consume…

President signs overhaul bill

 FORT BELVOIR, Va. (AP) — Veterans may soon have easier access to government-paid health care under a bill President Barack Obama signed into law Thursday, the government’s most sweeping response to date to a publi…

Cafe faces heat for added fee

(MCT) — A small cafe in Minnesota has thrown itself into a big battle over that state’s minimum wage increases, inundating the cafe with dozens of phone calls and online comments this week after it tacked on a 35-c…

Flow of youthful immigrants slows

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Fewer unaccompanied immigrant children are crossing the Texas-Mexico border, allowing the federal government to close the temporary shelters that it hurriedly opened to handle the surge, autho…

Hawaiians brace for two storms headed for island

HONOLULU (AP) — The first hurricane expected to hit Hawaii in 22 years weakened slightly Thursday as its outer edges began to bring rain and wind to the Big Island, while residents and tourists prepared for a possi…

Study links new gene to major breast cancer risk

It’s long been known that faulty BRCA genes greatly raise the risk for breast cancer. Now scientists say a more recently identified, less common gene can do the same.

Hackers may have millions of logins

A Russian hacking ring has secured a massive trove of stolen personal data, including login information for more than 500 million email addresses, security researchers told the New York Times.