N. Korea tests another missile
Flight reportedly takes it over Japan
DATE: Sep 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Forest Service spends record $2B battling forest fires
WASHINGTON – The Forest Service has spent more than $2 billion battling forest fires around the country – a new record as wildfires blacken the American West in one of the nation’s worst fir...
DATE: Sep 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Equifax’s troubles deepen after disclosure about breach
NEW YORK – Credit agency Equifax traced the theft of sensitive information about 143 million Americans to a software flaw that could have been fixed well before the burglary occurred, furthe...
DATE: Sep 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Phoenix sheriff pardoned by Trump hits the speaking circuit
LAS VEGAS – Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio is returning to the public speaking circuit after being pardoned by President Donald Trump following his federal contempt-of-court conviction in an immi...
DATE: Sep 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
House backs $1.2T spending bill with more money for military
WASHINGTON – The Republican-led House on Thursday passed a sweeping $1.2 trillion spending bill that provides billions more dollars for the military while sparing medical research and popula...
DATE: Sep 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Double attack in southern Iraq kills at least 50
IRBIL, Iraq – A coordinated attack on a restaurant and a security checkpoint in southern Iraq killed at least 50 people Thursday, police and health officials said, in a rare spasm of violenc...
DATE: Sep 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Trump, top Democrats agree to work on deal to save ‘dreamers’ from deportation
WASHINGTON – Democratic leaders announced late Wednesday that they agreed with President Donald Trump to pursue a legislative deal that would protect hundreds of thousands of young undocumen...
DATE: Sep 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Fire at an Islamic school in Malaysia kills at least 23 teenage boys
As the flames engulfed the building, the boys cried for help. The teens pressed their faces to the windows of their school dormitory, begging for rescue.
They couldn’t escape the ...
DATE: Sep 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Vladimir Putin quietly becomes longest-serving Russian leader since Joseph Stalin
On Tuesday, Vladimir Putin quietly passed a landmark date: He had spent 6,602 days as the top leader of Russia.
Though not widely acknowledged, this figure meant that Putin had sp...
DATE: Sep 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Berkeley braces for visit by right-wing speaker Ben Shapiro
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) – The University of California, Berkeley will seal off large parts of its campus like a fortress with a closed perimeter and a “very large” visible police presence Thur...
DATE: Sep 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
High school shooting in Washington state kills 1, injures 3
Shooter apprehended by police
DATE: Sep 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
U.S. Virgin Islands getting aid but still reeling from Irma
ST. THOMAS, U.S. Virgin Islands – The last of the late-summer tourists were gone Wednesday from the U.S. Virgin Islands, ferried away from the wreckage of Hurricane Irma in cruise ships boun...
DATE: Sep 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
