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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...

California fires cause $1B in damage, burn 7,000 buildings

SAN FRANCISCO – The wildfires that have devastated Northern California this month caused at least $1 billion in damage to insured property, officials said Thursday, as authorities increased ...

Some flowers create blue halo to say hello to foraging bees

NEW YORK – Some flowers have found a nifty way to get the blues. They create a blue halo, apparently to attract the bees they need for pollination, scientists reported Wednesday. ...

Utah man will be tried on murder charge in girl’s suicide

SALT LAKE CITY – A judge has ruled an 18-year-old Utah man accused of encouraging a teen friend to hang herself and filming it because he was fascinated with death should stand trial on a mu...

Al-Qaida set to gain as Islamic State disintegrates

BEIRUT – Over several nights in September, some 10,000 men, women and children fled areas under Islamic State control, hurrying through fields in northern Syria and risking fire from governm...

Ultra-personal therapy: Gene tumor boards guide cancer care

SAN DIEGO – Doctors were just guessing a decade ago when they gave Alison Cairnes’ husband a new drug they hoped would shrink his lung tumors. Now she takes it, but the choice was no guesswo...

House, Senate intel committees receive briefing from Google

WASHINGTON – Google has briefed the House and Senate intelligence committees ahead of two Nov. 1 hearings that will examine Russian efforts to influence U.S. elections through social media. ...

Harry Potter exhibit marks 20th anniversary of first book

LONDON – Harry Potter fans owe a debt of gratitude to Alice Newton. Alice was 8 years old when her father, a Bloomsbury Publishing executive, brought home a new manuscript for her...

Democrats slam GOP budget on taxes, health care cuts

WASHINGTON – The Republican-led Senate rejected Democratic attempts to spare health programs for the poor and elderly from cuts, absorbing political hits as the price for advancing a $4 tril...

Former Menendez staffer contradicts prosecution testimony

NEWARK, N.J. – A former staffer for U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez gave testimony at his bribery trial Wednesday that differed from the prosecution’s version of events. Karissa Willhite t...

Wildfires worsen housing crunch in famously costly Bay Area

SANTA ROSA, Calif. – Even before fire wiped out the home she rented for 17 years, Suzanne Finzell had thought about leaving this city on the edge of the San Francisco Bay Area because of ris...
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