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Oroville Dam repair costs will top $500 million

OROVILLE, Calif. – The costs to repair the nation’s tallest dam after a nearly catastrophic failure of the spillways will top $500 million, nearly double the original estimate of $275 millio...

Another warm winter forecast for swath of U.S.

WASHINGTON – Much of the U.S. should expect another warm winter, but not quite as toasty as the last two years, forecasters said. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrati...

Bipartisan Senate bill aims to prevent Western wildfires

WASHINGTON – As wildfires rage across California and the West, Democratic and Republican senators have joined forces to help rural communities better prepare for and prevent catastrophic wil...

EU leaders to May: Match Brexit promises with real proposals

BRUSSELS – European Union leaders told British Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday to match her goodwill pledges to boost Brexit negotiations with concrete proposals if she really wants t...

Toyota tops Consumer Reports’ auto reliability rankings

DETROIT – Toyota Motor Co. is continuing its reign at the top of Consumer Reports’ reliability rankings, a reward for its conservative approach to new technology. The Toyota brand...

CIA head: N. Korea months from perfecting nuclear capabilities

WASHINGTON – CIA Director Mike Pompeo said Thursday that North Korea is months away from perfecting its nuclear weapons capabilities. “They are close enough now in their capabilit...

Company seeks to build island off Alaska for Arctic drilling

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – America within a few years could be extracting oil from federal waters in the Arctic Ocean, but it won’t be from a remote drilling platform. Federal regulators...

Puerto Rico still stumbles in the dark a month after ‘Maria’

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – One man climbs 24 flights of stairs several times a day alongside dormant elevators. Street vendors hawk plastic washboards for $20. And families outstretch their han...

Spain set to strip Catalonia of powers over independence bid

BARCELONA, Spain – The crisis over Catalonia’s quest for independence escalated Thursday, as Spain’s central government prepared the unprecedented step of stripping the wealthy region of som...

Senate backs GOP budget in step forward for tax revamp

WASHINGTON – Republicans on Thursday muscled a $4 trillion budget through the Senate in a major step forward for President Donald Trump’s ambitious promise of “massive tax cuts and reform.” ...

Taliban attacks kill 58, nearly wipe out Afghan army camp

KABUL, Afghanistan – The Taliban have killed at least 58 Afghan security forces in a wave of attacks across the country overnight, including an assault that nearly wiped out an army camp in ...

Backyard chicken trend causes spike in infections, 1 fatal

DES MOINES, Iowa – Luke Gabriele was a healthy 14-year-old football player in Pennsylvania when he began to feel soreness in his chest that grew increasingly painful. After his breathing bec...
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