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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say an armed Omaha man has been hospitalized after a standoff with officers.Police say officers were sent to the home…

Studio 360 host Kurt Andersen will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Nebraska Book Festival.Festival Director and Poet Matt Mason says the festival…

John Kenneth Galbraith -- social economist, Harvard professor, diplomat -- is dead at 97. His work influenced Roosevelt, Kennedy and Johnson and generations of U.S. politicians. He spoke to Howard Berkes in 1999.

The bill must still be reviewed by a group of senior clerics, but President Hassan Rouhani's administration is hailing lawmakers' vote as a "historic decision."

Saudi Arabia's government is hosting Ahmed and his father for an umrah — a pilgrimage to Mecca. He'll also visit relatives in Jiddah.

Members of the activist group trespassed on the site of giant earth markings estimated to be more than 1,500 years old. Peru says it will pursue criminal charges against those responsible.

"This is a very devastating cyclone in Vanuatu. I term it as a monster, a monster," President Baldwin Lonsdale says. He was at a conference in Japan when the storm hit.

Stephen Colbert made fun of it, but in a lawsuit against a car dealer, Mark Oberholtzer says he received thousands of threatening calls after his truck was seen in the hands of Islamists.

Gov. Robert Bentley says the federal government failed to consult the state regarding refugee placement. Alabama is the second state to sue the government over the resettlement issue.

On Saturday, many sanctions on Iran were lifted under the nuclear pact, and the U.S. and Iran exchanged prisoners. On Sunday, the U.S. Treasury announced new sanctions over Iran's weapons program.