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BARABOO — I don’t believe in destiny, but I can’t help but wonder whether the names we give our children dictate their lot in life.

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (TNS) — Feeling heartsick and helpless nearly 4,000 miles away from the attacks, trauma physician Rushdi Abdul Cader spent Sept. 11, 2001, paging through his Quran in search of guidance.

WASHINGTON — Hailing the values and resilience that he says both define and sustain Americans, President Barack Obama on Saturday honored the nearly 3,000 souls lost in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, as well as the bravery of survivors and…

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — A reckoning arrives every August for the Colorado River and the 40 million people across the West who depend on it.

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Four years after the Benghazi terrorist attacks killed four Americans on the 11th anniversary of 9/11, debate still rages over whether the United States has done enough to protect its diplomats overseas.

WASHINGTON — The man who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan has been released from a Washington mental hospital for good, more than 35 years after the shooting.

BEIJING (TNS) — For more than a century, Chinese typewriters have been objects of curiosity, confusion and even a fair bit of ridicule — after all, how do you type a language that has no alphabet?

North Korea says it has successfully conducted a nuclear explosion test. The country says the test will lead to it developing improved nuclear weapons. Nations around the world quickly condemned the test.

A man convicted of one of the Chicago area’s most infamous crimes — the 1993 massacre at a Brown’s Chicken restaurant in Palatine, Ill. — is seeking a court hearing into allegedly newly discovered evidence, saying a star prosecution witness…