Nation
January 29, 2016
In this Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016 photo, Porshe Loyd, uses bottled water to wash her three-week-old son, LeAndrew, in a baby bather in the kitchen sink

No quick fix for Flint's water, Michigan governor says

Tests and science needed to end crisis, Snyder said.
Politics
January 29, 2016
Republican presidential candidates New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas,

GOP rivals mock Trump, try to make the most of his absence

Absent Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidates strained to take advantage of a rare opportunity to step out of the front-runner's shadow in Thursday night's debate — a staid, policy-heavy contest that offered a glimpse of what the GOP contest might have been without the unpredictable businessman.
January 29, 2016

Minnesota surfer bitten by shark in Hawaii

Lifeguards have closed a Hawaii bay to swimming after a shark bit a visitor from Minnesota.
Nation
January 29, 2016
FBI releases Oregon shooting video

FBI releases Oregon shooting video

The FBI released video of the shooting death of a spokesman for the armed occupiers of a wildlife refuge. It appears to show Robert LaVoy Finicum reaching into his jacket before he fell. The FBI said the man had a loaded gun in his pocket.
Nation
January 28, 2016
This frame grab taken from a Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016 video provided by Mexico's Instituto Nacional de Migracion, INM, shows Ethan Couch, as he is esco

Deported 'affluenza' teen booked into Texas detention center

The teenager who used an "affluenza" defense in a fatal drunken-driving wreck was booked into a Texas juvenile detention center following his deportation from Mexico on Thursday, more than a month after he and his mother fled the U.S. as prosecutors investigated whether he had violated his probation.
Local
January 28, 2016

Criticism of Wounded Warrior Project hits home in Minnesota

January 28, 2016
This photo provided by Mattel shows a group of new Barbie dolls introduced in January 2016. Mattel, the maker of the famous plastic doll, said it will

For the world's most scrutinized body, Barbie has a new look

Poor Barbie. She had plastic surgery to become more socially acceptable. But a lot of her critics still don't like her.
Nation
January 28, 2016
Law enforcement personnel block an access road to the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016, near Burns, Ore. Authorities were re

3 more linked to occupied federal site in Oregon arrested

Three more suspects linked to the armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon surrendered Wednesday, hours after their jailed leader urged the handful of remaining militants to abandon the site they have occupied for more than three weeks.
Nation
January 27, 2016
Oregon militia member wanted peaceful protest

Oregon militia member wanted peaceful protest

Militia member Robert 'LaVoy' Finicum died after a traffic stop when eight other militia members were arrested. Finicium told the AP in early January that he wanted a "peacful occupation" of the Oregon wildlife refuge.
Nation
January 27, 2016
Indiana principal dies in bus accident

Indiana principal dies in bus accident

An Indianapolis elementary school principal was seen pushing several students out of the way of an oncoming bus before the vehicle fatally struck her, authorities said Tuesday.
Nation
January 27, 2016

What led up to Tuesday's arrests in Oregon

An armed group took over a national wildlife preserve in southeastern Oregon more than three weeks ago, and so far authorities have taken no action to remove the protesters, who are upset over federal land policy.
Nation
January 26, 2016
Jenna Zalk Berendzen, who suffered from severe depression after her first birth, with her sons Maxwell, 4, and Samuel, 1, at home in Cedar Falls, Iowa

Task force urges doctors to screen all adults for depression

All adults, including pregnant women and new mothers, should be screened for depression as a routine part of health care, a government advisory group recommended Tuesday.
Nation
January 26, 2016

Wisconsin Planned Parenthood clinic provided fetal tissue to UW-Madison

Nation
January 26, 2016

Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, Nestlé, PepsiCo donate water to Flint

January 26, 2016
FILE - In this Sept. 12, 2013 file photo, Concepcion Picciotto, who held a constant peace vigil in Lafayette Park across from the White House, sits on

Woman who held 30-year vigil outside the White House dies

Concepcion Picciotto, the protester who maintained a three-decade peace vigil outside the White House that was widely considered to be the longest-running act of political protest in U.S. history, has died.
January 25, 2016

Ex-cop pleads guilty to killing woman, ditching body

A former suburban Milwaukee police officer accused of killing two women and ditching their bodies in suitcases along a rural Wisconsin highway pleaded guilty Monday in one of their deaths.
Nation
January 25, 2016
Snow cleanup underway in Times Square

Snow cleanup underway in Times Square

New York began lifting travel restrictions and hearty souls ventured out on to snow-choked streets Sunday. Some even took to the streets with skis.
Nation
January 24, 2016
Giant panda Tian Tian frolics in snow

Giant panda Tian Tian frolics in snow

Male giant panda Tian Tian woke up Saturday morning to fresh snowfall in Washington, D.C.'s Smithsonian National Zoo.
Nation
January 24, 2016
Blizzard brings much of East Coast to standstill

Blizzard brings much of East Coast to standstill

A blizzard with hurricane-force winds brought much of the East Coast to a standstill Saturday, dumping as much as 3 feet of snow, stranding tens of thousands of travelers and shutting down the nation's capital. In Philadelphia, residents took to sledding down the famous Rocky Steps.
Nation
January 23, 2016

Photos: Massive snowstorm hits East Coast

Millions of Americans awoke Saturday to heavy snow outside their doorsteps as a mammoth winter storm crawled up the East Coast.

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