WASHINGTON With new health insurance markets launching next week, the Obama administration is unveiling premiums and plan choices for 36 states where the federal government is taking the lead to cover uninsured residents. Before tax credits that work like an upfront discount for most consumers, sticker-price premiums for a mid-range benchmark plan will average $328 […]

LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Ohio is preparing to execute a white man who spewed racial slurs before fatally shooting a black man and a police officer in a 1994 rampage at his apartment complex in a Cleveland suburb. The lethal injection is the last before the state’s supply of its execution drug expires. Harry Mitts […]

NAIROBI, KENYA The terrorist group behind the takeover of a Nairobi mall claimed today that the Kenyan government assault team carried out “a demolition” of the building, burying 137 hostages in rubble. A government spokesman denied the claim and said Kenyan forces were clearing all rooms, firing as they moved and encountering no one. In […]

DALBADI, PAKISTAN Rescuers struggled today to help thousands of people injured and left homeless after their houses collapsed in a major earthquake in southwestern Pakistan as the death toll rose to at least 271. The earth moved with enough force to create a small island visible off the southern coast after the magnitude 7.7 quake […]

BEIJING (AP) — A Beijing court today convicted a man of murder and sentenced him to death for hurling a toddler to the ground in a case that horrified the Chinese public. The 2-year-old girl was severely injured and died in a hospital days after the incident. Her attacker, Han Lei, fled the scene, but […]

BAGHDAD (AP) — Attackers in Iraq set off three car bombs and engaged security forces in the country’s north today, killing nine people in the latest episode of deadly violence to hit the country, officials said. The brazen assault in the town of Hawija started with the car bombs at the local council building, where […]

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A bill allowing stray dogs to be euthanized is legal, Romania’s constitutional court ruled today, prompting hundreds of dog lovers to block a main road outside Parliament in protest. The ruling came weeks after a 4-year-old boy’s fatal mauling in Bucharest. Protesters, who blew whistles and brought some of their dogs, […]

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — The World Bank is lending Myanmar $140 million to upgrade an aging power plant in a country with chronic electricity shortages. Myanmar only recently emerged from a half-century of military rule and isolation. More than 70 percent of people there lack electricity.