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WASHINGTON (AP) — Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid need significant changes to be preserved for future generations, President Donald Trump’s pick to head the White House budget office told Congress on Tuesday, putting him at odds with the new chief executive. South Carolina Rep. Mick Mulvaney also said tax increases would be on the table […]

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — For buildings in parts of the snow-covered U.S. West, it has become a winter where the weak do not survive. The accumulated weight of snow has crushed an old lumber mill in Oregon, the main grocery store in a small Idaho town, a sports complex in Alaska and a conference center […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Lopsided contests to determine Super Bowl participants didn’t prevent each of the NFL conference championship games from reaching more than 45 million television viewers on Sunday. The Nielsen company said that 47.95 million people watched the New England Patriots beat the Pittsburgh Steelers in the AFC conference game. Earlier in the […]

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina judge has delayed a fired police officer’s murder retrial until August, but said it can be moved up again if federal prosecutors drop their civil rights case against him in the shooting of an unarmed black motorist. Media outlets report Circuit Judge Clifton Newman ruled Tuesday that Michael […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is declining to take a position on Israel’s latest plan to expand Jewish settlements on land claimed by the Palestinians, breaking with past White House criticism but leaving its own policy unclear. White House spokesman Sean Spicer dodged a question Tuesday on whether the administration supports the Israeli government’s […]

WEEHAWKEN, N.J. (AP) — Transit police say they’ve arrested a New Jersey woman who owes more than $50,000 in unpaid tolls and fees. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police say Bertha Moreno was driving a jitney bus Monday when an officer recognized its registration as a suspected toll evader. The bus was […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police on Tuesday were investigating the killing of internationally known hairdresser and beauty company executive Fabio Sementilli, who was found beaten and stabbed at a Los Angeles home. Detectives did not immediately provide a possible motive. They said his black 2008 Porsche 911 Carrera was missing from the home. Paramedics found […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “The Pope of Broadway,” artist Eloy Torrez’s brilliant 70-foot-tall mural of Oscar-winning actor Anthony Quinn, has visitors to downtown Los Angeles stopping to once again to stare in wonder. The prominent Chicano artist was among some 100 people to gather Tuesday under the work he spent nearly four months restoring. Torrez […]

BANJUL, Gambia (AP) — Gambian soldiers picked up Tijan Barrow, beat him with their guns and threw him into a cell at the notorious National Intelligence Agency prison. His alleged crime: Creating and selling T-shirts for the opposition. In the final days of his crumbling rule, defeated leader Yahya Jammeh turned again to the tactics […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Mayor Bill de Blasio is announcing a $1 billion commitment to fix leaky roofs in New York City’s public housing complexes. The money to upgrade deteriorating roofs is part of the preliminary city budget de Blasio announced Tuesday. De Blasio says fixing roofs in the city’s 700 Housing Authority buildings will […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional analysts Tuesday projected that President Donald Trump has inherited a stable economy and a government that is on track to run a $559 billion budget deficit for the ongoing budget year. The new estimates from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office say the economy will hold relatively steady, with economic growth rising […]

LUNENBURG, Va. (AP) — Biologists in Virginia have rescued a newborn black bear found in a den without its mother, but the tiny cub’s sibling didn’t make it. Wildlife Center of Virginia officials tell The Washington Post (http://wapo.st/2knxvyT) that rabbit hunters discovered two small cubs Saturday in a den by themselves in Lunenburg County. The […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Relatives searching for a missing woman have found the decomposed body of man in a Kansas City creek bed. The Kansas City Star (http://bit.ly/2j9sS6w ) reports that 21-year-old Brandon Herring had been missing since November when relatives of Jessica Runions discovered his remains Saturday. The Raytown man’s death has been […]

Materials companies led U.S. stock indexes slightly higher in early trading Tuesday as investors sized up the latest round of company earnings news. Energy stocks also rose as crude oil prices headed higher. Phone companies and health care stocks lagged the broader market. KEEPING SCORE: The Dow Jones industrial average rose 5 points, or 0.03 […]

As always, congratulations to all the Oscar nominees this morning. But isn’t it more fun to dwell on the snubs? Here’s some of the most egregiously overlooked. — Annette Bening gave what some consider the performance of her career as a 1970s single mother in “20th Century Women.” Alas; Oscar didn’t notice. Also deserving-but-neglected in […]

LILLE, France (AP) — The tiny Baltic nation of Estonia is experimenting with the idea of cyberconscription, giving draftees with tech skills the chance to step into roles defending the military’s electronic infrastructure. The program was described to The Associated Press on Tuesday by Estonian defense official Erki Kodar at a conference in the French […]

Former “Cosby Show” star Keshia Knight Pulliam has given birth to a baby girl. The 37-year-old Pulliam shared a picture of her cradling the baby’s legs on Instagram on Monday with the note, “Ella Grace has arrived!!!” Her brother, Mshon Pulliam, posted a picture on Instagram of himself with his sister in a hospital bed […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans retreated from buying homes in December, as number of properties for sale sank to lowest level since 1999.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans retreated from purchasing homes in December, as the number of properties listed for sale sank to its lowest level since 1999. The National Association of Realtors said Tuesday that sales of existing homes fell 2.8 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.49 million. For all of 2016, […]

The little birds were big in the ’80s (and the ’50s!), but they’re not exactly what they seem.

Carolyn Hax’s column today is written by her readers, who share advice on coping — or not — with various challenges of marriage, divorce and parenthood.

Cascadia Art Museum’s “Northwest Social Realism and the American Scene: 1930-1950” is a good starting point for examining the leftist fervor of the Pacific Northwest arts scene in the mid-20th century.

Four pressing questions as the Sounders begin their quest for another MLS title.

PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) — Dennis Gronquist, a county commissioner from north-central Oregon, has died at age 69. The East Oregonian newspaper reports (https://is.gd/gexzKq ) Gronquist spent more than two decades as an elected official in rural Gilliam County, including a stint as the mayor of Arlington. Gilliam County Judge Steve Shaffer says economic development was […]